From MSNBC.com, CNN, CBS, AP and elsewhere:

Sarah Palin tried to shift the campaign’s focus to abortion Saturday, using arguments that stressed a connection between her prolife stance, people with disabilities, and religion.

In an address in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Palin spoke at length of her own attachment to her son Trig, who has Down syndrome, and accused Barack Obama of  “unconditional support for unlimited abortions.”

“Most troubling though, most troubling even, is that as a state senator, Barack Obama wouldn’t even stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion,” she said. “These infants, often babies with special needs, they’re simply left to die.”

About her son, she said:

“Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world’s standards of perfection … and then there are God’s, and these are the final measure.

“Every child is beautiful before God and dear to him for their own sake, and as for our beautiful baby boy, for Todd and for me, he’s only more precious because he is vulnerable. And in some ways, you know I think that we stand to learn more from him than he does from us.”

Full text of Palin’s Johnstown remarks on abortion are here.

(AP photo)

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