uterine politics
I've read several places people speculating about Palin's traveling back to Alaska to have her baby being horribly irresponsible, etc.
First, I'll say this has nothing to do with the election, as it's a completely irrelavent point. The person I'm writing about might as well be any celebrity the populace has decided to crucify.
Second, isn't it usually the kind of liberals that are attacking her for this the SAME kind that say things like "Keep your politics out of my uterus"??
Article from April: http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html
Palin was in Texas last week for an energy conference of the National Governors Association when she experienced signs of early labor. She wasn't due for another month.
Early Thursday -- she thinks it was around 4 a.m. Texas time -- she consulted with her doctor, family physician Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who is based in the Valley and has delivered lots of babies, including Piper, Palin's 7-year-old.
Palin said she felt fine but had leaked amniotic fluid and also felt some contractions that seemed different from the false labor she had been having for months.
Palin kept in close contact with Baldwin-Johnson. The contractions slowed to one or two an hour, "which is not active labor," the doctor said.
"Things were already settling down when she talked to me," Baldwin-Johnson said. Palin did not ask for a medical OK to fly, the doctor said.
"I don't think it was unreasonable for her to continue to travel back," Baldwin-Johnson said.
So the Palins flew on Alaska Airlines from Dallas to Anchorage, stopping in Seattle and checking with the doctor along the way.
"I am not a glutton for pain and punishment. I would have never wanted to travel had I been fully engaged in labor," Palin said. After four kids, the governor said, she knew what labor felt like, and she wasn't in labor.
Some airlines have policies against pregnant women onboard during the last four weeks of pregnancy...Alaska Airlines has no such rule and leaves the decision to the woman and her doctor..
They landed in Anchorage around 10:30 p.m....Baldwin-Johnson said she had to induce labor, and the baby didn't come until 6:30 a.m. Friday.
Based on the facts of the situation I don't think it is fair to assume we know more about this specific person's situation giving birth than the woman who has done it 4 previous times, and her doctor.
Lastly: It is unethical for a physician to disparage the professional competence, knowledge, qualifications, or services of another physician to a patient or a third party or to state or imply that a patient has been poorly managed or mistreated by a colleague without substantial evidence.
Let alone us, a bunch of schmucks with google.
First, I'll say this has nothing to do with the election, as it's a completely irrelavent point. The person I'm writing about might as well be any celebrity the populace has decided to crucify.
Second, isn't it usually the kind of liberals that are attacking her for this the SAME kind that say things like "Keep your politics out of my uterus"??
Article from April: http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html
Palin was in Texas last week for an energy conference of the National Governors Association when she experienced signs of early labor. She wasn't due for another month.
Early Thursday -- she thinks it was around 4 a.m. Texas time -- she consulted with her doctor, family physician Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who is based in the Valley and has delivered lots of babies, including Piper, Palin's 7-year-old.
Palin said she felt fine but had leaked amniotic fluid and also felt some contractions that seemed different from the false labor she had been having for months.
Palin kept in close contact with Baldwin-Johnson. The contractions slowed to one or two an hour, "which is not active labor," the doctor said.
"Things were already settling down when she talked to me," Baldwin-Johnson said. Palin did not ask for a medical OK to fly, the doctor said.
"I don't think it was unreasonable for her to continue to travel back," Baldwin-Johnson said.
So the Palins flew on Alaska Airlines from Dallas to Anchorage, stopping in Seattle and checking with the doctor along the way.
"I am not a glutton for pain and punishment. I would have never wanted to travel had I been fully engaged in labor," Palin said. After four kids, the governor said, she knew what labor felt like, and she wasn't in labor.
Some airlines have policies against pregnant women onboard during the last four weeks of pregnancy...Alaska Airlines has no such rule and leaves the decision to the woman and her doctor..
They landed in Anchorage around 10:30 p.m....Baldwin-Johnson said she had to induce labor, and the baby didn't come until 6:30 a.m. Friday.
Based on the facts of the situation I don't think it is fair to assume we know more about this specific person's situation giving birth than the woman who has done it 4 previous times, and her doctor.
Lastly: It is unethical for a physician to disparage the professional competence, knowledge, qualifications, or services of another physician to a patient or a third party or to state or imply that a patient has been poorly managed or mistreated by a colleague without substantial evidence.
Let alone us, a bunch of schmucks with google.