Writing in National Review Online, editor Kathryn Jean Lopez assembles some of the nastier things that have been written lately about Trig Palin (like he must be so glad he wasn’t aborted). She concludes that Trig’s public presence is bringing repressed post-abortion pain into the open, prompting widespread hostility.

Lopez says that getting to know Trig has been good for America. An excerpt:

Before this election, most Americans did not know that upwards of 90 percent of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are never born. Now we know. Now we can offer more support to our friends and neighbors living with this challenge. Now we can do something to make sure we let people know they have our support before they eliminate a child who can bring them great joy, amidst the challenge.

Mind you, if we elect a president tomorrow who went out of his way in Illinois to oppose protecting newborns from infanticide — what an outrage it would be to give newborns the same right as older infants, then-State Senator Obama said — we will be taking a bit of a step backward, too, in the fight for a culture of life, though I do believe it will have been more out of ignorance than out of acceptance of that radical and barbaric position.

Or so I hope. And Palin, whatever happens tomorrow, has brought with her to the campaign trail a pleasant change — a witness and an awareness and a blessing. God bless her as she raises Trig, in or out of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

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