Ninety-two percent of women who get that news terminate the pregnancy, according to research reviewed by Dr. Brian Skotko, a pediatric geneticist at Children's Hospital Boston. Palin said she knew abortion was an option but was able to overcome the fear of the unknown to go ahead with the birth. I thought again, for that split second, 'OK, now I know, too, why, when that fear strikes you, because of the unknown,'" she said.
There is destiny for every child. And it can be good, in our world. And that's what I held onto. When asked by Walters if her "right to life" stance on abortion dictated her choice, Palin said her decision was not "politically motivated.
It was a holding onto a seed of And that certainly has come to fruition in my life," she said. Although she "chose life," Palin said she and husband Todd struggled with how to tell the other children -- especially the two youngest, Piper and Willow, who both joined their mother for portions of the Barbara Walters interview. But we didn't really care. He's still our brother. When asked why she didn't tell the children earlier, Palin told Walters that she was not emotionally prepared to share the news with her family yet.
Instead, she said, she wrote it all down in a letter, which she hadn't yet delivered when Trig was born. About five thousand children like Trig are born with Down syndrome every year in the United States. All are mentally challenged to varying degrees. They may face retardation, delayed language and slow motor development. Half of the babies born with Down each year suffer from congenital heart defects; Trig has a hole in his heart that may require surgery. So far, Palin said he can walk, but he has vision problems and, at 19 months, doesn't eat solid foods.
It wasn't long ago that being a child with Down syndrome carried a stigma. They were separated from societies, from their families," said Dr. Walters opened up about her own sister with special needs, who was teased and called "retarded. But, for the most part, people have been so loving and supportive of us that that encourages us and it makes us know that there is They are simultaneously in bed with the powerful and afraid of the masses.
So they end up in this ghastly middle. What's their excuse for not investigating or even asking? Their first is Palin's alleged family privacy. But there is no family privacy once you have deliberately forced an infant with special needs into the bewildering public space, held him up at a convention way past his bedtime, made campaign speeches featuring him, hauled him around night and day on a book tour, and used him as the central prop in the construction of a political identity.
Trig matters because Palin has insisted that Trig matters. If she had had a child under odd circumstances and insisted that it was private and kept the child away from cameras and ensured that he had all the care and privacy that such a child obviously needs, no one, including me, would have inquired further. But when you advance a political campaign using a child, it is imperative that the media investigate and probe the story.
Their second reason for not investigating is that it doesn't really matter. As I am often told by the Beltway crowd, she's never going to be president, she's just a flash-in-the-pan, leave it be, she'll go away soon enough. Well, she hasn't yet, has she? And for all those who believe as a fixed nostrum that she could never win the nomination, I can merely ask: who beats her, then?
Trig's political salience is obvious, and critical to Palin's brand - in fact, the only thing, apart from her amazingly good looks, that keeps her in the game. For generations, pro-lifers have voted Republicans into office on a strong anti-abortion platform.
For forty years, they have been largely let down. They understandably feel as if the leadership condescends to them, exploits them and does not really believe in the cause. This was true of Reagan, Bush, and the second Bush. So how does a Republican politician truly convince the base that he or she is a true believer on the life issue? Nothing does that like walking the walk of carrying a special needs child to term.
And indeed, if that is the case, it speaks enormously highly of Palin, in my view, as I have said from the very very beginning.
The way in which Palin has not let this speak for itself but has relentlessly exploited her story and child makes this an even more salient political issue - and one which deserves appropriate press scrutiny, as with any other core campaign platform. But there has been no press scrutiny.
In fact, there has been enormous pressure from the press not to investigate the story and to mock anyone who does so. No MSM interviewer of Palin has ever asked a single question about the bizarre stories that Palin has told about her political prop - not Oprah, not Couric, not Gibson, not anyone. Newsweek has reprinted minute details of Palin's story as fact with no independent confirmation but Palin's own words.
No MSM newspaper has asked for or demanded easily available proof of the pregnancy and birth - except the Anchorage Daily News , after the election, which prompted Palin not to quietly offer proof to an editor keen to put the entire controversy to rest, but to explode in rage.
But we have all seen mounds of evidence that prove the Truthers are out of their minds and we have seen the birth certificate that refutes the Birthers. What have we seen to back up the maternity of Trig? Country music icon Trisha Yearwood is big on keeping family traditions alive around the holidays. Yearwood, who hosts Trisha's Southern Kitchen on the Food Network, says food traditions are especially important to her. Yearwood loves to host a "misfit Thanksgiving," where they invite people who don't have a place to go for the holiday to their home.
Yearwood says that Brooks loves to tell stories about how his mother used to stay up all night to baste the turkey before Thanksgiving. But she's discovered a hack to get a moist bird without all the hassle: She leaves it covered in a pan of water in the oven overnight.
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