Her decision NOT to kill him reminds the left
that this is the morally superior decision.
It also reminds them that they, who would choose to kill him,
are in the morally inferior position,
and even more, it reminds them that they are perishing - eternally speaking.
I’ve read with astonishment that men support Sarah more than women, and as I woman, I wondered why.
Then I thought of my own experience as an adoptive mom. When my kids were young, most people expressed nothing but support for our choice to adopt, but every so often a woman (and it was always a woman) would express an almost insane fury against that decision. For example, one waitress wondered out loud, in front of our children, why the birth mother did not chose to abort. One day, I was waiting for my children to finish their marshal arts class in a crowded waiting room when one of the other mothers learned we had adopted. She angrily announced for all to hear that my children were most likely the children of prostitutes. Everyone in the room was appalled, not only at her statement, but at her disproportionate sense of outrage.
I have since pondered the possibility that these women have themselves aborted their children, and my decision to adopt forced them to see the immorality of that decision. In Palin’s case this would be even more pronounced. Consider how many women in this country aborted children they initially wanted, just because they learned the child was disabled.
If one of every four babies in this country is aborted, and 80-90% of mothers bearing disabled babies abort, this would certainly skew Palin’s popularity among women.
I believe the only way a woman can psychologically get past post-abortion guilt is to feel the Lord’s forgiveness. Only then can she forgive herself.