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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin McCain’s VP Pick - What’s her abortion views?
By Daniel McConchie | August 29, 2008
FOX News is reporting this morning that Sarah Palin has been selected to be McCain’s Vice Presidential candidate. Last week we told you what Joe Biden’s record was on abortion when that news broke.
So what are Sarah Palin’s views? While she’s been Governor of Alaska, there has only been one piece of pro-life legislation pass the legislature (though not for lack of her trying). She does have several statements about her views and about her son Trig whom she carried to term even though she knew in advance that he had Down syndrome:
“Alaskans know I am pro-life and have never wavered in my belief in the sanctity of every human life.”
Palin Responds to Expanded Call Request
http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=1108&type=1
“I am pro-life…”
Campaign website, www.palinforgovernor.com, “Issues” Nov 7, 2006
[Referring to her and her husband] “We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life. We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”
“John McCain, here’s your vice president”, Nat Hentoff, World Net Daily, May 28, 2008
“I’m pro-life. I’ll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.”
Palin Speaks to Newsmax About McCain, Abortion, Climate Change Newsmax, August 29, 2008
[Regarding her son Trig who has Down syndrome] “I’m looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?”
“John McCain, here’s your vice president”, Nat Hentoff, World Net Daily, May 28, 2008
“Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives. We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place. We are truly blessed.”
“McCain Selects Strongly Pro-life Governor”, LifeSiteNews.com, August 29, 2008
Palin signed into law a measure that will provide immunity for a parent who leaves an unharmed infant no more than 21 days old with a police officer, medical personnel, hospital employee and emergency services personnel. The infant can also be left with any person the parent feels will act in the infant’s best interest. Although the person receiving the newborn is required to ask about the infant’s identity and medical information, the parent is not required to provide the information. The law went into effect on May 11, 2008. Previously, AK had been on of only one of four states without such a law.
Statements from her office indicate she opposed the activist Alaska Supreme Court decision striking down the state’s parental consent law, and she supports a constitutional amendment in Alaska requiring parental consent for abortion.
She called this ruling “outrageous” and asked Attorney General Talis Colberg to file legal papers asking for a re-hearing. Since the decision, she appointed Daniel Winfree of Fairbanks to replace one of the judges who sided with the majority in overturning the consent statute. That earned her praise from Alaska Right to Life, the state’s leading pro-life group.
In August 2006, she told the Anchorage Daily News, she recognized the struggle young women face in an unplanned pregnancy saying, “no woman should have to choose between her career, education and her child.” For Palin, there is no inconsistency between advocating for women and taking a pro-life position. “I believe in the strength and the power of women, and the potential of every human life,” she said
(Both quotes from Anchorage Daily News); quotes also available at LifeNews
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August 29th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Don’t forget, she just had a child with down syndrome. Many people would’ve aborted that child. She chose life.
MCCAIN PALIN 08
August 29th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
[...] 1:40p: Americans United for Life has posted several of Palin’s pro-life statements. [...]
August 29th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Why did she go back to work only 3 days after having Trig? I find that troubling.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
BREAK THE GLASS CEILING !!!
WOW … What a great pick!!! America should elect
McCain & Palin for the Whitehouse in November,
for a return to wholesome American values.
An experienced Governor for V.P. vs. a
community organizer for President … I pick Palin.
No Wright, no Farrakahn, no Ayers, no Rezko,
no mean Michelle, NOBAMA
August 31st, 2008 at 9:09 am
You short minded people, along with the evangelist right, are exactly why I’ve left the Republican party and gone independent.
With all the problems facing our country today: energy crisis, health care, trade deficits, weak dollar, increasing corruption in our politics, our NATIONAL DEBT (do your homework, abortion isn’t going to matter when one considers what this is going to do to our country in a few short years) you put your energy (and nose) into someones PERSONAL life (something the Christian right does best) in making a very emotional & PERSONAL decision.
Abortion isn’t going to matter a whole lot when we’re owned by foreign governments (chinese & middle easterners), in a Depression and have even less personal freedoms than we do now (open your eyes).
To think there are people who make THIS subject the primary issue when deciding on who gets the most important job in this country…….how short sighted. This is sickening. With a mindset like this, we deserve whatever is coming to us as a nation.
Sad indeed…………
August 31st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Pro-choice is NOT Pro-abortion.
If Gov. Palin is really against abortion
in the cases of rape and incest
then she needs to be defeated.
Abortion on demand is immoral
and despicable. But sometimes we face difficult decisions.
It is more painful, and for more family members and freinds ,to lose an 18 year old in war.
Too bad we bring elections down to one issue.
I can’t stand Obama but may have to hold my nose and vote for him.
than a fetus
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Exceptions in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother are standard in pro-life laws and bills. Before and after Roe, this has always been the case.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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