Sarah Palin Talks About Considering An Abortion - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

At a pro-life dinner last night, Sarah Palin talked about her fleeting thoughts of abortion when she learned she was pregnant with Trig. It was beautiful, sincere, and humanizing because it comes across as so personal and real...

(Realizing I was pregnant) blew me away, it rocked my world... It was a time I asked myself, was I going to walk the walk? (J)ust for a fleeting moment I thought, 'No one knows me here; no one would ever know.' ...My amniocentesis came back and then I understood why some people would think they could change their circumstances, just take care of it. Todd didn't even know. No one would know. Plus, I was old and I thought, 'Very funny, God. My name's Sarah, but my husband's not Abraham, he's Todd.' ...We went through some things a year ago that's helped me understand a woman and a girl's temptation to make this go away....Believe it or not, I didn't even know what a baby with Down syndrome was going to look like or feel like. I had to ask that my heart be filled up...That prayer was answered the minute he was born...My heart overflowed. I felt a love I had never felt before. He's brought amazing, surprising happiness; he's the best thing that has ever happened to me."

Some people think that the courageous feel no fear or that the righteous never consider doing the wrong thing.

Not true.

Not everyone has the same challenges, fears, or temptations, but everybody has challenges, fears, and temptations. The best of us just feel the pull and choose to do the right thing anyway.

Comments (30)

Beautifully put John.

Posted by Rightwingsparkle
2009-04-17 11:49:06

That's a great story. My wife and I went through some of the same emotions and experiences when we found out our son was to be born with a birth defect (spina bifida). Although since we were in Seattle we had subtle (and not-so-subtle) pressure from medical staff and even people we thought were friends to "take advantage of our right to an abortion" as one person put it.
Now I look at him playing, laughing, and even when he's throwing a temper tantrum because I we have to catheterize him and I can't believe anyone ever suggested that we should have killed him because his spine went haywire.

Posted by Bull_Moose
2009-04-17 12:03:27

yet people on the left despise this woman for not murdering her child.

Posted by Dick_Nixon
2009-04-17 12:10:34

Here is a woman who decided to give her child life and yet, the libs' only reaction will be to attack and vilify her simply because they don't like her political preferences.

So much for being open-minded.

Posted by Kingfisher
2009-04-17 12:18:56

We also need to keep a tally on home comments are posted before Bristol's pregnancy is mentioned.

Posted by Kingfisher
2009-04-17 12:22:18

Bull Moose, our son is autistic, so I'll say a prayer for your son.
Yes, it's hard to raise him this way, but I just remember these Bible verses:

John 9:1-3
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Posted by tre
2009-04-17 12:35:00

Posted by Kingfisher
2009-04-17 12:22:18

I have to imagine that the slimy entity that we all know as groundhogg, hogground, bornagain, squared-away is literally wetting himself (you know he's reading - the guy's been on a year-long mission to pollute this site with his crap) wanting to stir the muck about the Palins. The Palins were one of his 'hot-button' items.

It always leaves a deep impression on me when I hear stories from women who consider, then reject abortion. I'm impressed with their ability to rise beyond the material and focus on that which really makes us unique as a species - the ability to be spiritual.

Posted by martinhale
2009-04-17 13:05:20

Posted by CavalierX
2009-04-17 13:09:52

Dick Nixon,

I've posted under groundhog, hoground, woodchuck, born_again and I believe some others. I've never broken any of JH's posting rules, but get taken down on occassion apparently because I'm too effective in adding a balanced perspective to RWN which riles some of the regulars to the point of calling me names and requesting that I get taken down.
Posted by squared_away
2009-04-14 11:22:26

martin, I think he is gone for a while.

Posted by Dick_Nixon
2009-04-17 13:12:43

I would have to agree. It takes guts to go public with something so personal.

Posted by D-Vega
2009-04-17 13:32:40

Considering and rejecting an abortion took a lot more heart than if she had never considered it at all, and admitting that she had considered it took a lot of guts. The Governor just rose another notch in my estimation... and she was already pretty far up there.
Posted by CavalierX
2009-04-17 13:09:52

Isnt it great that we live in a country where Palin was able to consider it and then make her choice accordingly.

Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 13:36:15

Isnt it great that we live in a country where Palin was able to consider it and then make her choice accordingly.

In that case, let's extend this logic further.

Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a country where people were able to consider paying taxes and then make their choice accordingly?

Or if we lived in a country where a divorced father was able to consider paying child support and then make his choice accordingly?

Or if we lived in a country where business owners were able to consider whether to give equal pay to women and minority employees and then make their choice accordingly?

Posted by mightysamurai
2009-04-17 13:54:36

"Isnt it great that we live in a country where Palin was able to consider it and then make her choice accordingly."

Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 13:36:15

In a word NO. I'll just bet you are one of those people that would go to the mat and protest the execution of a murderer on moral grounds, but not think twice about the murder of innocent babies.

Posted by gfchicago
2009-04-17 13:59:56

abortion is murder. Just a FYI.

Posted by Dick_Nixon
2009-04-17 14:15:15

Abortion has been with us from the days when we lived in caves, and women sometimes ate ergot to induce early contractions. It was never a choice, but a temptation. It would have been sooooo easy for Governor Palin to kill the child; no one would ever have known. And she had actual medical reasons to consider it -- her age, the fact that the child would have Down's Syndrome. But she knew it was wrong. It was always wrong. It will always be wrong. You Li beral scumbags want to pretend it's a "choice" with no moral baggage. It just shows how mentally sick you all are.

Posted by CavalierX
2009-04-17 14:15:54

"Isnt it great that we live in a country where Palin was able to consider it and then make her choice accordingly.

Posted by whats_up"

What a great country it will be when murder is no longer considered a right.

It will also be a great country when liberals are as eager to kill terrorists as they are unborn children.

Posted by decypher
2009-04-17 14:28:57

I know a lot of people (republicans) that don't think Palin is capable of being president. But if you ask me she is 1,000,000,000 x more capable than Barack, based on her morals alone.

Posted by notoriousnick
2009-04-17 14:51:20

It amazes me how ignorant some on the left are. Over at Foxnew.com some posters were calling her a monster for allowing Trig to be born with downs but I am sure in a few years he will tell you himself that it is better than being dead. That child didn't make the poor decision or act irresponsibly, yet they are the ones that pay the ultimate price. Individual rights DO NOT trump life.

Posted by mrmikey
2009-04-17 15:11:41

thank heaven that we live in a country that allows a woman to choose to have a child rather than forcing her to have one.

Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 15:05:30

Except that we don't live in such a country, since that right doesn't extend to ALL women, just those that have been born.

Posted by RWNReader2
2009-04-17 15:13:43

Sure, courage is about doing the right thing even when you are afraid and the cost will be high. She was tempted but did what was right by the grace of God.

Posted by Christopher_Taylor
2009-04-17 15:18:56

martin, I think he is gone for a while.

Posted by Dick_Nixon
2009-04-17 13:12:43

Yeah, I get that he's not posting. But gone? I have my doubts. The man's been haunting this site for over a year, and in doing so he's lied about who he is multiple times, he's used shadow aliases and usernames to deceive people here and he's lived at the edge of the rules the whole time. That's not just persistence, in my view. It's my opinion that he's crossed over the line into obsessive territory. His obsessiveness showed up in other ways - he always brought up the same tired themes eventually, no matter what name he was posting under. Sarah Palin was one of the objects of his obsession. So was plainsradio.com, so was unionisation; so was his support of Mr. Obama and his policies.

Practical experience with obsessive personalities, online and in person have taught me that people don't just walk away from obsessions.* He didn't just suddenly and unilaterally shut up. You know he's skulking in the bushes, lurking and 'reading the mail'. Inevitably he'll be unable to contain himself and he'll stumble back into our midst, probably under another name. It's not just his MO, it's his raison d'etre.

*I'd be happy to share with you by email a narrative that I kept about an obsessive woman stalker I dealt with a few years ago. It's quite entertaining in a dark sort of way, in spite of being tragic.

Posted by martinhale
2009-04-17 15:59:44

I am quite aware of the baggage that this decision would bring about, again thank heaven that we live in a country that allows a woman to choose to have a child rather than forcing her to have one.
Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 15:05:30

I'd be happier if the CHILD was given the same CHOICE about whether or not it wanted to LIVE!!!

It's so simple to see that the decision made by the woman to MURDER her unborn child is such a great freedom, for the woman. But the child, it's freedoms, it's rights, subject solely to the whims of the woman who concieved it, sickening!

Posted by bthewolf
2009-04-17 16:06:53

Yeah, I get that he's not posting. But gone? I have my doubts.

He's been "gone" before. He won't stay "gone" for long.

Posted by mightysamurai
2009-04-17 16:18:05

...again thank heaven that we live in a country that allows a woman to choose to have a child rather than forcing her to have one.
Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 15:05:30

Whats_up, i remember you saying that a) its hard to determine when the child would be a human being and b) you said it should be considered human after the or around the 2nd trimester. So according to you, she wasn't going to kill a child, but now you said she would be having a child. So what gives?

Posted by econ52
2009-04-17 16:43:19

thank heaven that we live in a country that allows a woman to choose to have a child rather than forcing her to have one

Tell me how the country would force women to get pregnant. I think you may have misunderstood the term "labor camps."

Posted by CavalierX
2009-04-17 16:43:20

Posted by Kingfisher
2009-04-17 17:15:55

Isnt it great that we live in a country where Palin was able to consider it and then make her choice accordingly.
Posted by whats_up
2009-04-17 13:36:15

Wouldn't it be even greater if we were able to consider retroactively aborting YOU?

Oh... you have a moral problem with THAT, don't you?? But is it possible your opinion on that matter is simply tainted by self-interest?

Posted by CoolCzech
2009-04-17 21:12:49

"thank heaven that we live in a country that allows a woman to choose to have a child rather than forcing her to have one.

Posted by whats_up"

Who forced her to get pregnant?

Posted by decypher
2009-04-17 22:21:40

One of the most satanic and horrid things the left has done is to turn baby killing into some noble act of protecting women. Note it isn't about the life of a helpless innocent, it is about a woman not being forced to have a baby, such a horror.

Posted by Christopher_Taylor
2009-04-18 12:34:01

"One of the most satanic and horrid things the left has done is to turn baby killing into some noble act of protecting women."

The Left does this with everything. They can never say what they are actually doing. They're not for the redistribution of income. They merely want to "level the playing field". They're not for race based preferences and quotas. They just want to "atone for the past". They don't want to over-regulate industry. They merely want to "protect the consumer". They don't want to squash the human population. They merely want to "protect the environment".

They can't say what they actually want to do because 80% of the population would never go for that and would never elect them. So they have to make up euphemisms. Then, they accuse Republicans of "speaking in code".

Posted by decypher
2009-04-18 15:48:54

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