NY Daily News
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BY NANCY DILLON
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Updated Sunday, August 31st 2008, 2:27 AM
WASILLA, Alaska – Sarah Palin’s hometown rallied around her as mayor – now Republicans wonder if the rest of America will warm up to the surprise pick from cold country.
Though her mother-in-law has doubts.
Faye Palin admitted she enjoys hearing Barack Obama speak, and still hasn’t decided which way she’ll vote.
“We don’t agree on everything. But I respect her passion,” she said. “Being pro-life is who Sarah is.”
Faye Palin said the governor never considered ending her recent pregnancy when genetic testing showed her son Trig, born in April, would have Down syndrome.
Faye Palin, Gov. Palin’s mother-in-law
(Schumann for News)
“There was no question,” she said. “She was going to have that baby.”
With a population of just 6,715, Wasilla is a fast-growing railroad town that got its start as a mail and supply hub linking the coastal towns of Seward and Knik to Alaska’s interior mining camps along the Iditarod dog sled trail. Read More.
I am pro-choice. I have always been ambiviolent about being so. It is people like Sarah Palin who, in part, make it impossible for me to consider the pro-life position. I think that she and her husband were right not to terminate the life of a Downes Syndrome baby.
I have to wonder about her sense of responsibilty towards Trig in particular and the country in general. She appears to “want it all”. The willingness to carry any baby to term , implies a serious committment to that child. Color me cynical, but I pray her pro-life decision had nothing to do with political ambitions.
The Right to life issue seems to center primarily on “not aborting fetuses”. Rarely do pro-lifers seem to care about promoting the value of contraception, family planning and a general regard for the lives of people. One can’t help but note that pro-lifers are often pro NRA, PRO war and for capital punishment. ( I list the NRA because I live in a city with a terrible gun problem that could be solved in part, by the NRA rethinking it’s whole belief system. Growing up in the forties, I supported the NRA and it’s reasonable aims) There appears to be a contradiction here that I for one can’t resolve.
I am a democrat and I heartily support the Obama/Biden team. The prospect of more of what has been for eight years isn’t practical and Sen. McCain’s choice of Palin as running mate underscores my belief.