I admire the way she has taken a common sense approach to government and found ways to support her constituents in Alaska and made herself the most popular governor in our country. I resent the idea that her 17-year-old daughter has no mind of her own and that it is somehow the mother’s “fault” that her daughter is marrying her boyfriend of 3 years and they are going to raise a family, being “punished with a child” and all.

I made the same choice that Governor Palin did, and I resent everyone who believes that my son, Ethan, should have been aborted. I agree with the article and can find little else to explain the incredible hatred being levied at Governor Palin.

Governor Palin has never said that she was special, or better, or wonderful for continuing the pregnancy after finding out that Trig had Ds .. but that is what many of her critics say..they say that she uses her son as a ‘political prop’, when clearly he is with her in public because he is part of her family. They say that because she ‘made the choice’ to continue her pregnancy, she will ‘force’ other women to carry to term babies that they do not want..and all she said is that she loves her child and that each life is precious .. and that she does not believe abortion is right.

For some pro choice people, the way they deal with ‘choice’ is to try to discredit those who are pro life..or to refuse them the right to state their beliefs..Palin has been called a “fundamentalist right wing wacko”…based largely on her pro life stance. Think about it. Just because she had a child with Ds, she is seen by some people as being dangerously religious … and I know that there are plenty of parents who are pro choice and chose to have their child after a prenatal diagnosis … but that is not what society thinks, by and large … many people think that only mindless religious robots continue a pregnancy after a prenatal diagnosis … I have read comments from pro-choice parents who were concerned that people would think that they had their child due to ‘religion’ … and they were mortified by that!

You can see this hostility in a smaller way even on Ds ‘support’ listservs … people who are pro life are marginalized and told that they are not allowed to talk about abortion on the listservs because it is ‘too divisive’. so yes, I believe that this man knows what he is talking about.