Sarah Palin Puts Her Money Where Her Mouth Is On Abortion
About the Author: The Party of Kennedy is NOT the Party of Pelosi. The Democratic Party has radically degenerated into a socialistic and postmodern perversion of its former place in American political thought. In place of Judeo-Christian values they embrace secular humanism; in place of a strong national defense they embrace a reliance upon internationalism; in place of a strong family they embrace a radical abortion agenda that increasingly includes outright infanticide.
I can't sit idly by and watch the culture war pass me by. It is time to choose sides. As Joshua 24:15 puts it, "choose this day whom you will serve."
Polls have shown that the more committed one is to (any) religious belief, the more conservative one tends to be politically. One’s views toward religion profoundly affect one’s commitment to political, social, and moral issues. In my articles, I seek to argue in favor of a religion-friendly view of culture, morality, and politics. Read more from this authorCharacter is revealed in crisis, and Governor Sarah Palin had a crisis that challenged her basic values when she learned that the child she was carrying - her fifth - would have Down Syndrome.
What would this pro-life wife and mother do?
For Sarah Palin, there really was no question: she would love her child.
Women who argue that men have no right to talk about abortion (as though ideas and morality have male or female genitalia), who argue that a child with Down Syndrome is the “poster child” for termination, are stymied in the face of this courageous woman.
Not only is Sarah Palin a woman, but this former star athlete and beauty queen and current wife, mother, and highly successful Governor is way more woman than any of her critics.
Tim Graham wrote a magnificent article on the story, saying in part:
Immediately the family made this announcement: “Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives.”
Trig Palin has Down syndrome. Early prenatal testing alerted the Palins to this chromosomal abnormality, as it is alerting more and more families in the early stages of pregnancy.
Unfortunately, because of early screening, more children with Down syndrome are aborted and fewer and fewer are being born.
Children with Down syndrome do bring “unspeakable joy” into this world. I know the laughter and blessings my 5-year-old nephew, Ethan, with Down syndrome, has brought to our family. But how do you explain this joy to a perfection-at-any-price world?
Sarah Palin didn’t want perfection; she wanted her child. And, with a true mother’s heart, she loved her child no matter what, and - with her husband - was willing to fight for her baby.
And she chose to rejoice in her newborn baby even though he wasn’t “perfect.” Who is?
The Nazis had a phrase that they used to justify the killing of all kinds of unwanted human beings - lebensunwertes leben - “life unworthy to be lived.” Sarah Palin proved with in the most powerful way imaginable that she believes all innocent human life is worthy to be lived.
The liberal’s response? That makes her a terrible, narrow-minded person.
She’s everything Barack Obama despises: she’s clinging to her guns and her religion, and add to that a baby that Obama would have gladly left out to die.
But the reaction to Sarah Palin is already revealing who really has “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
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[...] Sarah Palin Puts Her Money Where Her Mouth Is On Abortion [...]
[...] Sarah Palin Puts Her Money Where Her Mouth Is On Abortion [...]
Republicans Grateful to Pro-Choice Movement…
…without choice, there are no heroes…
Choosing to kill your child isn’t heroic. It is evil and despicable and pathetic.
Standing up for life - even when it’s difficult - is heroic.
Sarah Palin is a hero.
abort!
Aptly named.
Several pundits have said that abortion is the gun liberals use to wipe themselves out (the Darwin Award for Most Unfit).
But then liberals force their way into the schools and try to work their “values” into decent peoples’ kids.
Michael Eden:
NATURALLY you sidestepped the issue.
Palin is ONLY a hero to you because SHE HAD THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
If she didn’t have the right to choose, she’d be nothing but a martyr…and for the liberals!
Maybe you’ll learn something from Palin’s rights as a woman to choose.
Then again….Birth über All!
Oh, and Michael Eden….Why don’t you exercise your CHOICE (free speech) to say what you’re REALLY trying to say.
Or are you at some level feeling guilty for being prejudiced?
What euphemistic “values” are “liberals” “forcing” into schools?
And by extension, do you think kids who are members of that “value” system “indecent”?
C’mon, sin bravely.
By your twisted and perverse logic, having laws against homicide or rape would be immoral, because they deprive me of my “right” to “not choose” to do those things.
Abraham Lincoln, in arguing against legalized slavery (something else I suppose you’d be “for” so people could freely choose to be “against” them, said, “You cannot have a right to do wrong.”
I’m with him on this one.
Maybe you realize the implications of your position (i.e. you are an anarchist and a nihilist); maybe you’re just seriously dumb. If you are the former, I won’t waste my time arguing with someone who seeks the completel breakdown and destruction of civilization; if the latter, I STILL won’t waste my time.
If she had no choice in whether to carry to term, she would have just carried to term and that would be that. No heroism.
If she had chosen INSTEAD to terminate, and you had your own way, she’d be in jail, leaving four children without a mother.
We all have a choice in everything. She was protected from incarceration when considering her own options.
Abortion isn’t murder. Murder is a legalism and not all forms of life termination aren’t murder.
Life doesn’t begin at conception, nor is it possible–whatever you believe–that a soul is imbued at the point of conception. Why? Because there are exceptions to that notion, and if it’s not universal, it’s not a truth. Unless, of course, you’re dooming one of the pair of identical twins to be soulless. Or each twin has only half a soul.
Do you even know what a nihilist is? Obviously not, because people like you LIVE to disrespect Unbelievers. You’re like that.
There’s no “logic” needed. None at all: you champion Palin BECAUSE SHE MADE A CHOICE which you happen to agree with.
She made a choice.
if she didn’t have the right to choose in this matter, she’d've been nothing but a broodmare who wasn’t allowed to be otherwise.
OK, you’re the second one.
Apart from the fact that you still don’t understand that your “logic” leads to the dissolution of every law that holds fallen human society and civilization together, you proceed to give me a “If you can create any reason whatsoever to doubt the humanity, you can kill it” argument.
Fool.
More than a hundred million human beings are lying in mass graves because they employed their own “logic” to deny the humanity and dignity of people THEY didn’t want to accept as “human.”
And the only thing that separates you from them is that they had/have power, and you have an opinion.
True or false: Palin could have aborted.
True or false: you champion her choice not to.
Two answers. That’s all you need to give, because all you’ve been blathering are fallacies and misstatements.
When is a human individual imbued with a soul? if you can’t answer this as a Universal Truth, you shouldn’t be speaking at all.
For that matter:
How do you feel about the death penalty? “Murder”?
Deaths in a war you likely support? “Murder”?
In the interval of time from when your mother was born, to right now today, when did “life” begin? Fact of the matter is, it didn’t. Because it never ended. Life only exists today because it existed yesterday, and all our yesterdays before that.
First of all, I CAN answer the question:
Psalm 139:13,14 For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul knows it very well.
Isaiah 49:5 And now says the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant
Continuity of identity. The Lord formed ME in the womb; MY inward parts. I was once a fetus, just as I was once a toddler and a teenager. If I had been killed in any of these stages, I would have been killed.
You speak of my blathering, and my fallacies. But you are clearly the blatherer.
Your argument is a fool’s:
If abortion were illegal, Sarah Palin would not be courageous for choosing to have her children. Therefore abortion should be legal.
If rape were illegal, I could not be courageous for choosing not to rape. Therefore rape should be legal. And therefore child molestation should be legal. And every other despicable thing.
I’m not going to waste my time arguing with such trivially stupid and fundamentally immoral reasoning any longer. Go waste someone else’s time.
Ohhh, except I don’t recognize any authority to do with the Bible. Neither does the US Government—yet.
The “Lord” didn’t form me, the sperm and ovum of my father and mother did. And guess what? Sperm is alive (ask the Catholics about masturbation) and so is an ovum.
You can look it up. It’s fact. Isn’t that interesting?
You really have no sense of logic. NONE whatsoever. I wasn’t making any case for the reason abortion should be legal. Nonewhatsoever.
My *argument* is that if she had no choice, you couldn’t possibly champion her because there was no possibility she *could* have done differently. You’re my hero for having not killed anyone today, Michael Eden.
It’s only trivially stupid because you distort logic to make your point–and you put words in my mouth along the way.
“I would have been killed”. Killed, yes! Murdered? Depends.
How about death penalty, Michael? How about telling me–and you can choose any source you like, including your mythology–if it’s murder that Palin and McCain are advocating in continuing the police operations in Iraq?
And what if your You in the womb split into genetically identical multiples? Which cell gets the Soul?
You avoided SO much of what I asked. Shocker.
I’ll try one more time:
Your argument:
My *argument* is that if she had no choice, you couldn’t possibly champion her because there was no possibility she *could* have done differently.
You in fact ARE arguing that abortion ought to be a choice, because a woman can’t be a “hero” if it is illegal.
And MY *argument* is that if a rapist has no choice, you couldn’t possibly champion his NOT raping or regard the non-rapist as noble because there was no possibility he *could* have done differently.
This is an asinine position. And you are simply asinine for even offering it.
Now I’m through with you on this post (and will delete subsequent trivialities from you). Begone.
You’re a real classy guy, “god of busuits.”
Go away mad, but please go away.
Look, someone edited my contents.
Classy.
I’d leave yours as-is if you posted relevant stuff.
When the truth doesn’t fit, edit it, right?