By Dennis Teti, writing in the National Review:

What is it about powerless infants that brings out the best and the worst in human beings? I ask, naturally, because of the astonishing responses to Trig, Sarah Palin’s baby, who has Down syndrome. What can we learn from the warm public response — and the antipathy of powerful elites?

… the rhetoric about the “freedom to choose” has become less convincing with time. In terms of popular opinion, in the U.S. at least, those who would use that slogan to compel women to abort children with health conditions are farther away from their goal now than they were ten or 15 years ago. The surprising and overwhelming public embrace of Sarah Palin testifies to the growing understanding of the implications for the unborn of the true rhetoric of equal rights.

See also:

• Trig Palin can change the pace, by Jillian Bandes in Human Events
• Surprised by a disability, by Al Hsu in Christianity Today

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