Sarah Palin, abortion, and ethics
I didn't know who Sarah Palin was until McCain announced her as his VP pick. Since then, I've been trying to read up a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_palin
One of the things that impressed me about her was that she had a baby with Down's Syndrome. Not that it's an accomplishment, but it implied to me that her anti-abortion views weren't only something she was trying to foist on others, but something she honestly believed. She's willing to go through considerable personal sacrifice on behalf of her own fetus.
And then I noticed she's 44 years old. That's an awfully risky age to be getting pregnant.
At some point, the hubris of trying for a pregnancy in the face of all kinds of increased birth defect dangers for the kid becomes a selfish thing. You've got four biological kids already, why not just adopt?
Maybe I'm judging her over-harshly. My parents had an unplanned kid when my mother was 40, and my sister turned out fine (except for an unfortunate obsession with Harry Potter). Maybe Palin and her husband were just twice unlucky, first on birth control then on genetics roulette, not foolish and reckless.
What do you guys think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_palin
One of the things that impressed me about her was that she had a baby with Down's Syndrome. Not that it's an accomplishment, but it implied to me that her anti-abortion views weren't only something she was trying to foist on others, but something she honestly believed. She's willing to go through considerable personal sacrifice on behalf of her own fetus.
And then I noticed she's 44 years old. That's an awfully risky age to be getting pregnant.
At some point, the hubris of trying for a pregnancy in the face of all kinds of increased birth defect dangers for the kid becomes a selfish thing. You've got four biological kids already, why not just adopt?
Maybe I'm judging her over-harshly. My parents had an unplanned kid when my mother was 40, and my sister turned out fine (except for an unfortunate obsession with Harry Potter). Maybe Palin and her husband were just twice unlucky, first on birth control then on genetics roulette, not foolish and reckless.
What do you guys think?