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I am so glad that Michael Barone finally explained this all to me, because I really wasn't sure why I disliked Sarah Palin so much. Apparently, I just resented her for having had a baby that I - being a pro-choice zealot and all - would have aborted. Maybe if she'd been more willing to kill her baby, I would have liked her more. Because, you know, I just can't trust any woman who would pass up the opportunity to terminate a pregnancy. Terminating pregnancies is AWESOME.
Seriously. Did the right-leaning media learn nothing from John McCain and his dick fingers? Was nobody paying attention when women from North America and beyond FREAKED OUT at John McCain's suggestion that pro-choice women like abortions so much that they'll invent "women's health issues" to get them? Have these people all recently suffered blows to the head? Because, seriously, how can they be so stupid?
This is what Michael Barone said:
"The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her
Down syndrome baby... They wanted her to kill that child. ... I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years."
(I'll give you a moment. Feel free to shriek loudly. I have earplugs.)
He later said that he was joking - which, really, would qualify him for some kind of Howard Stern Lifetime Achievement Comedy Award, if it were true - but seeing as most thinking adults would recognize that dead baby jokes don't really play that well outside of shock radio shows, I'm guessing that this was a lie. Also, as the writers at Jezebel noted, he failed to mention that the very same argument had appeared in the National Review a few weeks ago, so he's not only guilty of stupidity, douchebaggery and extreme bad taste, but also unoriginality.
Kevin Burke - the co-founder of a "post-abortion healing ministry" - had this to say in the National Review:
"Governor Palin has been clear that, despite the challenges Trig’s condition will present, she and her husband Todd joyfully celebrate the gift of this precious life to their family. But this very heartfelt, natural expression of love may be striking at a deeply repressed and painful wound in our culture.
Seeing the Palin family, in a very visible public forum, with an uncompromising and public pro life philosophy arouses deeply repressed feelings in post abortive parents, as well as media members, counselors, health care professionals, politicians and others who promote abortion rights, especially the abortion of children with challenges such as Down Syndrome. These powerful repressed feelings of grief, guilt and shame can be deflected from the source of the wound (i.e., abortion) and projected onto an often uncharitable focus upon the trigger of these painful emotions… the Palin family."
And in case you missed his point:
"The Palin family’s decision to once again affirm the value of the
unborn child, and support a decision to give life confronts the
collective grief, guilt and shame of all who have participated in any way in the death of an unborn child... We must invite our post-abortive culture to leave the dead end road of anger and personal attacks on families like the Palins."
Because, yes, of course: my discomfort with Sarah Palin had nothing to do with her anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-intelligence ignorance-peddling, and everything to do with my repressed rage at her decision (dare I say CHOICE?) to keep her baby when I - pro-abortion zealot that I must be to even whisper the word choice - might not have. OF COURSE. Why didn't I think of that?
Here's the thing: I've had an abortion and it's something that I will have conflicted feelings about until my dying day. I've also given birth to two babies - and had a Down's Syndrome scare with the most recent pregnancy, and an even scarier scare (Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, a condition that is terminal for the afflicted child) in the first. So I've been down both roads; I've made the choice to terminate a pregnancy, and I've faced the fear that accompanies choosing a future with a possibly developmentally disabled or terminally ill child. In the first case, I agonized over my choice; in the latter cases, my husband and I agonized together. In the end, in the latter cases, we decided that we would carry on with the pregnancies no matter what. But I - we - remain grateful that these were choices that we were able to make
