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The Trig Palin Effect
Washington Times ^
| 10-12-08
| Daniel Allott
Posted on 10/14/2008 10:15:00 AM PDT by Wolf13
Sarah Palin is not the only one. Right now 400,000 mothers are going through the same experiences every day - the simple joys, the profound challenges, the unexpected blessings. Ann Robertson is one of them. Like Mrs. Palin, Mrs. Robertson recently gave birth to a child with Down syndrome.
When Mrs. Robertson heard Mrs. Palin was selected as the Republican Party's nominee for vice president, her emotions jumped quickly, from surprise, to joy, to tears. "Whether or not people are going to vote for her, we [mothers of children with DS] all were excited," she said.
October is National Down Syndrome Awareness month. But nothing has done as much recently to raise the public's awareness of Down syndrome as events a month earlier. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political rise has placed the glaring spotlight of the media on the entire Palin family, and not least on its youngest member, 6-month-old Trig, who was born with Down syndrome.
Mrs. Palin's emergence has also cast a soft, revealing light on a hitherto neglected issue: Down syndrome abortions. America's epidemic of Down syndrome abortions disregards not only the sanctity of human life but also the profound contributions that persons with Down syndrome offer to the lives of those they touch.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; downsyndrome; eugenics; palin
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:15:00 AM PDT
by
Wolf13
To: Wolf13
God bless baby Trig. I am still furious over liz trotta calling him “it”.......
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:22:17 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: Wolf13
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:24:25 AM PDT
by
6323cd
(Proud sister of Gloria, age 41, who happens to have Down's Syndrome)
To: Wolf13
Sarah having Trig has touched women in America in a way that no amount of political rhetoric can or will change. Deeply. Morally. Soulfully.
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:28:34 AM PDT
by
polymuser
To: tioga
That is so cold and creepy-words fail me.
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:28:40 AM PDT
by
Republic
To: tioga
That is so cold and creepy-words fail me.
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:29:31 AM PDT
by
Republic
To: polymuser
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:32:21 AM PDT
by
FES0844
(FES0844)
To: Republic
8
posted on
10/14/2008 10:35:34 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: polymuser
Amen. She is walking her talk, it touches our souls.
9
posted on
10/14/2008 10:36:37 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: Wolf13
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posted on
10/14/2008 10:53:25 AM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
To: tioga
And that B*TCH sallquinn still insisting Sarah ought to have had an abortion or at least not be running for political office with ‘that’ child.
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posted on
10/14/2008 11:00:23 AM PDT
by
Carley
(she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
To: Wolf13
Trig Palin is more fit to be President of the United States than Barak Hussein 0bama.
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posted on
10/14/2008 11:02:05 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Wolf13
Wow!
Check this out....................WOW!
Click Here
I hope all of you will go to this site and see what the Catholics have done to encourage their 67 million people on election day. They don't say how to vote but they sure do get their message across. (Worth watching and sending to everyone in your network)
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posted on
10/14/2008 11:02:42 AM PDT
by
B-Cause
(It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.)
To: tioga
I agree. If the choice is to comport yourself like Palin or Obama when it comes to the unborn, Sarah is the example I'd chose to follow.
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posted on
10/14/2008 11:09:37 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
To: Wolf13
I am greatly concerned for children like Trig in the future should socialized medicine and the neo-utilitarianism which must accompany it comes into further vogue in this country. We will find lies, manipulation, and coercion directed toward forcing abortions in this situation. Euthanasia is a necessary accompaniment to coerced abortion. All morality will collapse into a brutal calculation of situations thought to produce the greatest balance of benefits over harms for the greatest number. In practice, of course, the “greatest number” becomes always favors the new elites.
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posted on
10/14/2008 11:17:47 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
(just another liberal-bashing fearmonger)
To: Wolf13
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posted on
10/14/2008 12:08:44 PM PDT
by
GitmoSailor
(AZ Cold War Veteran====McCain/Palin 2OO8==My Mouse is a MOOSE=Donate to FR)
To: tioga
I am still furious over liz trotta calling him it....... What is liz trotta?
Never heard of it. (her?)
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posted on
10/14/2008 12:18:14 PM PDT
by
don-o
(My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 20)
To: don-o
see post 8..........liz is a pundit on tv....supposedly a republican one...she suffers from the same virus as katleen parker and peggy noonan, it appears.
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posted on
10/14/2008 12:23:35 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: tioga
Do you remember her exact words?
To: Wolf13
You Tube - Over 1,500 Black Babies Per Day Are Killed In The USA / Pro-Life Anti-Abortion Video PSA
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posted on
10/14/2008 7:13:26 PM PDT
by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
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