We’ve often said that Sarah Palin would be extraordinarily popular with the media if she’d only aborted her child. That comment, however, is often seen as bombastic or hyperbolic.
But here’s the thing. It’s true. And now a columnist from US News and World Report even says so.
Bonnie Erbe wrote a piece called “Republicans Must Learn From Palin’s Brave Admission That She Weighed An Abortion:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin displayed one minute aspect of her personality that even I could take a shine to. Speaking last night to an anti-abortion rights dinner in Indiana, Gov. Palin told the crowd about her struggle with her fifth pregnancy last year. She found out she was pregnant while on a trip out of town. Her son, Trig, was born with Down syndrome. She actually said publicly that she considered having an abortion on that trip—not an easy admission, especially before such a judgmental group…
Yes. We’re the judgmental folks. Erbe’s the one who essentially says that you have to either be for killing children or preferably actually killed a child in order to get her appreciation.
Just imagine the love note she’d have written to her if she’d gone through with it.
They’d love her almost as much as they’re pretending to love Meghan McCain or her father who has made a career of criticizing the GOP.
But have you heard one comment anywhere condemning Sarah Palin from those “judgmental” pro-lifers for her admission that abortion crossed her mind. She said at the speech:
“There, just for a fleeting moment, I thought, I knew, nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know. I thought, wow, it is easy. It could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances. No one would know. No one would ever know…I had just enough faith to know that trying to change the circumstances wasn’t any answer.”
This canard of pro-life judgementalism is really ridiculous.
Pro-abortion folks can’t even admit there’s something wrong with abortion so how can they help women who have had abortions who are feeling guilty.
Thousands of women are in pain because of what they’ve done. And who offers counseling? The Church and other pro-life organizations. And then Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers just say that the only reason these women are feeling guilty is because evil pro-lifers keep telling them that what they did was wrong.
So pro-lifers ask women not to kill the unborn, we pray that they accept the little human life growing within them, and then pro-life organizations counsel the women after they do so. And pro-lifers are the evil ones?
You wouldn’t think the actual abortion providers had any responsibility in this whatsoever other than cashing the check.
April 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I’ve seen all kinds of things since becoming more of an avid prolifer. Mostly Orwellian in nature.
I’ve been going to the local Aboritorium to pray for the babies and for their parents weekly for years now. Usually I end up chanting an Eastern rite funeral service/prayer for a child or praying the rosary. WE are too far distanced from the people entering the clinic.
I’ve been called all sorts of names, been cussed at, had trash thrown at me, you name it. Just this past Saturday morning a young woman driving a red minivan with children honked her horn and flipped me the bird, in plain sight of my minor daughter and her young friend who were accompanying me this time.
I’ve had flyers were left on my windshield saying that they don’t want me there because of my “hate-speech.” I am intrigued by the irony of so called “hate-speech.” In the mind of those who use the term, we who pray for the unborn and care enough to pray for the health and well being of the parents are the “haters” while those who kill the baby and psychologically maim the parents are not?
Actions and words such as these push me toward being more ardently prolife.
I love Sarah Palin, and all the other parents who have done the same, for admitting her challenges and accepting the gift of God, her child, instead of turning her back on Him by rejecting His gift.
April 20, 2009 at 2:15 pm
“Aboritorium” is not the right word. What I wrote was corrected to this. I was making a novice attempt at wordsmithing, looking for a less benign word for the “abortion clinic.” The Romans had their “vomitoriums” so that is where I was going.
Any alternative word that is more abhorent and less PC for the grotesque practice will be considered for further use.
April 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm
It always seemed to me that the fact that so many women who absolutely know abortion is wrong will still consider it is proof that abortion should be illegal. Fallen human beings will always consider taking the easy way out of their problems, and if the easy way out is safe, legal and anonymous, fallen human beings will often choose it even knowing it’s wrong.
April 20, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I actually saw a liberal commentator condemn Sarah Palin because she wants to “deny other women the decision that she made” Apparently, being ambivalent or troubled about a pregnancy and choosing to continue it is being pro-CHOICE??? What kind of contortions of reason or logic do these people have to put themselves through to justify their position. Maybe I should be glad that the pro-death people have at least accepted choosing life.
April 20, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I too had tried to rescue both the mother and the child from the evil of abortion. What I’ve learned is that there is no ground for dialogue with many pro-aborts. Many of them have no interest in the truth. They just want to win at all costs. They know that they’re murdering babies but it’s just business. Pro-lifers are bad for business so anyway to shut them up and shut them down is fair game. I think the pro-abort mob ranges from those who honestly think that abortion should be available to prevent the greater evil of women using a coat hanger to fish the baby out and those who are out there to become millionaires by providing a service to kill an insignificant and unwanted human matter.
So, pro-lifers need to grow a thicker hide and not be perturbed by the lies and irrationalities of the opponent. Sometimes we meet an honest but misguided pro-“choice” person who thinks we’re judgmental. Providing information about the humanity and personhood of the child is educating not judging.
How many times have we heard women say that they thought it was just a blob of undifferentiated cells? And even if we do not tell them, they’ll feel and know intuitively that they did something very wrong and that messes them up for life. But then, it will be too late. So, we’re witnessing and also helping them avoiding the greatest tragedy in their lives.
April 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm
AODoc: a Byzantine Catholic priest I know in North Carolina uses the term “abortuary.”
April 20, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Of course the thought crossed her mind.
Abortion is pushed so hard in the culture that I’m mildly surprised her doctor didn’t try to order her to get an abortion when the test came back positive.
April 21, 2009 at 10:39 am
Palin’s story is something that non-Christians cannot understand, and in fact take as justifying their stance. The reality is that we know from Christ’s life that He too was tempted to take the “easy way out”. This is part of being human. Whether the easy way is to choose TV and potato chips rather than making something of one’s life, or choosing to take a life for the sake of convenience, it is still a temptation that we all experience at some point. This does NOT equate to sin. Temptation vs Sin is really a foreign concept to those who do not understand religion (specifically Christianity). Hence the tone of the Newsweek article.
April 21, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Didigo, He’s my priest. I use the term “abortuary” often, but I’m looking for something more wretched.