Palin Considered Having Abortion

In one of her first trips outside of her native state since last year’s presidential campaign, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told an Indiana crowd that she considered having an abortion when she learned that her youngest son, Trig, would be born with Down syndrome.

The thought occurred to her “just for a fleeting moment,” Palin told a crowd of 3,000 at a right-to-life breakfast in Evansville, Indiana.

From AOL:

… (Palin) went into some detail about initially panicking after learning, 13 weeks into her pregnancy, that her son would be born with Down syndrome: “That blew me away, it rocked my world … It was a time I asked myself, was I going to walk the walk?”

She was on a trip out of state at the time, she said, and “just for a fleeting moment I thought, ‘No one knows me here; no one would ever know.’ … My amniocentesis came back and then I understood why some people would think they could change their circumstances, just take care of it. Todd didn’t even know” the results of the prenatal testing yet, so “no one would know.”

“Plus, I was old,” she continued. “And I thought, ‘Very funny, God. My name’s Sarah, but my husband’s not Abraham, he’s Todd.’” At 44, she said, she had a hard time imagining changing diapers again, not to mention “putting down the BlackBerry and picking up the breast pump.”

That last part is totally understandable – blackberries are way cooler than breast pumps.

And while we could have done without the whole retelling of her back-and-forth with God and “my husband’s not Abraham” thing (duh), it’s hard to see how this disclosure wouldn’t end up working out for Palin.

There are going to be plenty of people looking to make all different sorts of hay, to be sure, but our sense is that evangelicals will eat it up – especially here in South Carolina.

Sarah resisted temptation, and just as “the flock” loves new converts, they also love those who didn’t take the forbidden fruit – whatever that fruit may be.

We’ll see how it all plays out, but our sense is that this admission helps – and humanizes – Sarah “Barracuda.”

Which is probably why she made it.

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