Posts by giovanni tiso
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But she is being sold to the evangelical base as the pro-life super-mama on the basis of this pregnancy (as Jolisa said, it makes her the pro-life poster girl), while she seems to have actually done some oddly risky things.
My inquisitive little brain wonders: did she even know the child had DS? You can't very well make a positive diagnosis in utero without an amniocentesis, and why would you subject yourself to an amniocentesis if you knew you were going to keep the child anyhow? Except if you claim to have known the child had a disability, then you do become the poster girl for having resisted the "abortion pressure" and you end up on Lifenews.com.
If she didn't know, on the other hand, the choice of flying during early labour seems a lot less problematic.
Having followed the line of argument, I can't really be too sanctimonious, but of course being pro-choice means also accepting that this person doesn't owe us her health or that of her unborn baby, regardless of her political persuasions. It's a bit like when anti-gay senator Larry Craig was arrested in that airport toilet a couple of years ago. Nobody deserves that treatment, and where the hell was the outrage against the police?
Of course I didn't feel that way about Haggard the Horrible. That was a moment of pure glee.
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Read the story. She didn't clear it with her doctor.
I never said she did. The same doc later said she didn't think it was unreasonable of her to have flown. I'm not so interested in the opinion of another obstetrician, to be perfectly honest. My partner and I have chosen to have our children at home, weighing pros and cons. I'm sure a number of obstetricians are against our choice.
I'm a bit more shocked than I was. Nearly half of Down's babies have heart defects
Fair enough, although how this is suddenly any of our business, I'll never know.
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No, actually. That's what she told the Anchorage Daily News. Her waters broke and she had contractions before she gave her speech, and then she flew back to Alaska later in the day.
That's a relief (of sorts), the existence of a source I mean. Still, the doctor didn't seem to think it was unreasonable of her to fly home.
With our first we went twenty hours from waters breaking to compulsory induction since the labour wasn't progressing. This is back in 2001, and they've relaxed the standards since. I don't think we would have boarded a flight, but if she felt comfortable doing it, I have no problem with it.
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The obvious choice was Palin, the governor of Alaska, whose guard stands as our last best defense against possible attack by the resurgent Russian menace across the Bering Strait.
chortle.
This VP nomination has been brought to you by the letter A and by the word "abut".
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Ewwww....
Sorry, I probably should have considered that sentence a bit more carefully. I'm getting genuinely quite worked up about this.
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It does seem a tad reckless to board an eight-hour flight when your waters have broken and you're actually in labour.
What's your source? I see no such info in the article linked to by the Kos diarist, in which Palin claims to have felt contractions before the speech and to have been told by her doctor over the phone to put her feet up.
The hours of leaking of amniotic fluid seems to have been plucked out of the diarist's ass to me.
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'the truth will come out when the MSM investigate'. Or will they?
On what grounds should they? I'm sure some tabloid loon will pick it up and run with it, but why should the MSM touch this particular turd? On the basis of what evidence?
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Call me low-brow but I think it is the pregnancy issue that will sink her
I don't understand what Obama could do to tell his supporters to chill down, but other than that, on the basis of the evidence the story is ludicrous, I feel like a jerk even rebutting it: I know plenty of women who didn't show much at five or six months; I know plenty of teenage girls with a bulge like Palin's daughter. Flying when you're eight months pregnant is something an airline might not want you to do to cover their own asses, but it's not a risk per se; and wanting to go home to be in the care of your own doctor or midwife is important to many pregnant women. That's not even touching on the extremely creepy tone of the 'article'. Let it go.
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Read Graeme's link people, it's mind-blowing. My first thought was 'It can't possibly be true - what a shitty rumour to start' ... but if you read it all the way through...
Thinking 'what a crock of shit'. I'm surprised Kos hasn't pulled this diary.
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how could you not vote for someone who ""goes to Sbarro when he's angry, the New York Stock Exchange when he's horny, and Christie's when he's depressed." :)
Or who "lives every week like it's shark week".