Hypothetical
Let's say you're a conservative politician of some importance, and a mom.
One day, your teenage daughter comes to you with a startling confession: she's pregnant. She has been for about four, maybe five months.
You realize that if this comes out, your upward momentum politically might come to a screeching halt, and your daughter knows it too, so she's already hatched up a plan. If she stayed out of school with some long-term, hard to pin down illness (like, say, mononucleosis), no one would see her. Meanwhile, you (the mom) could pretend to be pregnant instead. You've already got kids, it'd look fine, she says, no one would doubt it, especially if you made absolutely certain to have the baby in a tiny local hospital in your small town.
You agree to the plan, for your sake as much as hers, but when you take your daughter in to the doctor covertly for some prenatal testing (the doctor understands your predicament and assures you it will be kept under wraps as long as you make sure he is considered for Surgeon General later on), there's a hitch: the baby has Down's Syndrome, which means that your daughter really should have the baby somewhere with a neonatal intensive care unit, which your local hospital doesn't have.
Do you confess the lie and try to move on in spite of the scandal? Do you continue with the coverup, go to the hospital with your daughter and "have" the baby in a NICU-less hospital in the middle of nowhere?
What would you do, citizens of booj?
One day, your teenage daughter comes to you with a startling confession: she's pregnant. She has been for about four, maybe five months.
You realize that if this comes out, your upward momentum politically might come to a screeching halt, and your daughter knows it too, so she's already hatched up a plan. If she stayed out of school with some long-term, hard to pin down illness (like, say, mononucleosis), no one would see her. Meanwhile, you (the mom) could pretend to be pregnant instead. You've already got kids, it'd look fine, she says, no one would doubt it, especially if you made absolutely certain to have the baby in a tiny local hospital in your small town.
You agree to the plan, for your sake as much as hers, but when you take your daughter in to the doctor covertly for some prenatal testing (the doctor understands your predicament and assures you it will be kept under wraps as long as you make sure he is considered for Surgeon General later on), there's a hitch: the baby has Down's Syndrome, which means that your daughter really should have the baby somewhere with a neonatal intensive care unit, which your local hospital doesn't have.
Do you confess the lie and try to move on in spite of the scandal? Do you continue with the coverup, go to the hospital with your daughter and "have" the baby in a NICU-less hospital in the middle of nowhere?
What would you do, citizens of booj?