HOW DARE SHE KEEP THAT BABY ALIVE!
By Divine Democrat on September 6, 2008 at 11:05 AM in Abortion, Sarah Palin
Posted by Mary Ellen of The Divine Democrat
Today while reading No Quarter, there was an interesting post entitled, A NEW LOW, regarding an article in Salon written by a doctor.
After reading the post, I followed the link to read his entire story, hoping to see a sign that this doctor is not the quack that he came off looking like. Personally, I keep a keen lookout for these types because Lord knows there are plenty of them out there. After reading his article I came away with the same feeling I had when I read dcmediagirl’s post … the guy is either a quack, or a man who disingenuously used his position as a physician, leaving out key information, in order to make his point. I’m leaning towards the latter.
In the article, he ponders this…
We could ask, given that Palin had no doubts about seeing her pregnancy through, why she bothered to take a genetic test. Why not, as you might expect a woman in her position and with her outspoken beliefs to do, decline any testing or counseling? Of course, it seems very reasonable to want to know about the health of your baby and to have time to prepare (emotionally and otherwise) for a baby that may have a genetic disorder. But that doesn’t negate the fact that by having a blood test, Palin was given a choice about what to do.
Now, I’m not sure what specialty Doctor Rahul K. Parikh practices, but any doctor who has gone through medical school should know the answer as to why she took this test. He did mention that this would give a woman the opportunity to prepare emotionally…and then added “and otherwise”, but left it at that. How convenient for him that he left out what that “otherwise” was.
That “otherwise” he left out would be that between 40% to 50% of Down Syndrome babies are prone to Atrial Septal Defect, which is an abnormal connection between two atria in the upper chambers of the heart. Now, why would a mother, or the obstetrician of the mother want to know this ahead of time? Because a mother who does want to have her child regardless of the fact he has Downs Syndrome would want to make contact with a Pediatric Cardiac Physician to prepare for the likelihood that the child may need surgery immediately after birth or later if necessary. The Obstetrician would like to know if he will be delivering a Downs Syndrome Child because that way he can be prepared for any complications that may arise during the birth of the child. He may decide to deliver the baby by C-section instead of natural birth so as to make it easier for a baby who may be born with problems with his lungs or heart.
The fact is, Sarah Palin did what ANY mother carrying a baby with Down Syndrome would do, she was assuring that her baby would be born in an environment that would allow the doctor to handle any medical emergencies IN ORDER TO SAVE THE BABY! Now, isn’t that consistent with her pro-life stance?
Oh, and this gets better. The so-called expert in the medical field ended his story with this…
So while I respect Palin’s decision to raise Trig, that’s all the respect she will get from me. I don’t see eye-to-eye with her on anything else: energy, guns, sex education and of course a woman’s right to choose. Her supporters say that Trig signals that she practices what she preaches. But her to decision to have him is also a sign of her hypocrisy. [emphasis mine]
So, here we have a mother who is anti-abortion. And that mother decides to take the test recommended by her Obstetrician to look for possible abnormalities because she is at the age where her child may have Downs Syndrome. She does this because, as I’m sure the doctor explained that the child may have a heart defect and they must be ready for this. I will tell you that is exactly what the doctor said because when I had my fourth child I was 35 years old and even back then this advise was given, and that was quite awhile ago. And this makes her a hypocrite? Well, how dare she want what was best for her child? How dare she do everything she could to be sure that this child would be born into a safe environment!
Those who say that Sarah Palin is on the wrong side of the issue regarding abortion, that’s fine. She is anti-abortion unless the life of the mother is in danger. She is pro contraception because she believes every woman has the right to do all she can not to become pregnant.
So how does going through testing for the child’s best interest and choosing to have the child with Downs Syndrome make her a hypocrite when she’s made it very clear that she is anti-abortion? I say it doesn’t…what do you say?
by Ronald Scott
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