Why did Palin try to 'abort' her DS child by delaying its birth?

[bijou]

T Wolf (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 09:28 AM
Original message
Why did Palin try to 'abort' her DS child by delaying its birth? How hypocritical is she to now use
 Advertisements [?]it to pretend to care about special needs children?

Is there no depth to which a puke will not sink?

 

cali  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-08-08 09:31 AM
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2. oh for ****'s sake. stop trying to damage Obama 
 with these ****ing moronic attacks. 

Cali speaks for many but ...

rsmith6621 (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 09:43 AM
Response to Reply #3
14. It Could Be An Issue
 

.....if it could be tied to medical proof that she endangered her baby's life by flying back to Anchorage and able to tie it in with bad judgment and then tie her bad judgment and McSame bad judgments into an issue....

It can work possibly. 

T Wolf (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 09:38 AM
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12. Read the timeline on the event. The POS took flights back to Alaska after her water broke, bypassed
 a hospital that specialized in problem pregnancies to patronize a backwater clinic in her home town.

It is obvious she was trying to "get Gawd to get rid of it" and when that failed, is now using it to pretend to have compassion. AFTER cutting the budget for state assistance for problem pregnancies.

It does not take a degree in cartography to connect the dots.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6984375

[formerlurker]

There is a huge difference between leaking amniotic fluid and water breaking.   This was her 5th child, and she was 5 weeks early.   She was not in labor.   

She went straight home and did not deliver until the next day  -- she also spoke to her OB before she got on the plane.

Morons.

[Chris_]

There is a huge difference between leaking amniotic fluid and water breaking.   This was her 5th child, and she was 5 weeks early.   She was not in labor.   

She went straight home and did not deliver until the next day  -- she also spoke to her OB before she got on the plane.

Morons.

Keep 'em coming, DUmmies and KOmmies -- Joe Public is in the process of going from irritated to flat-out pissed.

[FlaGator]

I really enjoy how they jump on any little thing that they get in to their little heads and turn it in to absolute proof of something of another. It just shows how desperate they really are. I have to agree with Cali here, it does make Obama supporters look desperate and gives the appearence that they are grasping at straws.

[formerlurker]

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.

"I said I am going to stay for the day. I have a speech I was determined to give," Palin said. She gave the luncheon keynote address for the energy conference.

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.

Still, a Sacramento, Calif., obstetrician who is active in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said when a pregnant woman's water breaks, she should go right to the hospital because of the risk of infection. That's true even if the amniotic fluid simply leaks out, said Dr. Laurie Gregg.

"To us, leaking and broken, we are talking the same thing. We are talking doctor-speak," Gregg said.

Some airlines have policies against pregnant women onboard during the last four weeks of pregnancy, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises against flying after 36 weeks.

This was going to be Palin's last flight anyway, her doctor said.

Alaska Airlines has no such rule and leaves the decision to the woman and her doctor, said spokeswoman Caroline Boren. Palin was very pleasant to the gate agents and flight attendants, as always, Boren said.

"The stage of her pregnancy was not apparent by observation. She did not show any signs of distress," Boren said.

Palin never got big with this pregnancy. She said she didn't try to hide it but didn't feel a need to alert the airline, either.

They landed in Anchorage around 10:30 p.m. Thursday and an hour later were at the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Wasilla.

Baldwin-Johnson said she had to induce labor, and the baby didn't come until 6:30 a.m. Friday.

"It was smooth. It was relatively easy," Palin said. "In fact it was the easiest of all," probably because Trig was small, at 6 pounds, 2 ounces.

Palin said she wanted him born in Alaska but wouldn't have risked anyone's health to make that happen.

"You can't have a fish picker from Texas," said Todd.

Palin said she won't take maternity leave but will go with Trig to doctor's visits, physical therapy, whatever he needs. She's breast feeding and plans to bring Trig to work with her, just as she did with Piper.

"It just feels like he fits perfectly," Palin said. "He is supposed to be here with us."

http://www.adn.com/front/story/382864.html


She is a busy lady who was pregnant with her 5th child.   Not exactly a rookie here.    

[Splashdown]

Heidi   (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-08-08 10:03 AM
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22. Locking.
 Flamebait.

Heidi,
DU Moderator

Ah hell. That's no fun!

[BlueStateSaint]

I really enjoy how they jump on any little thing that they get in to their little heads and turn it in to absolute proof of something of another. It just shows how desperate they really are. I have to agree with Cali here, it does make Obama supporters look desperate and gives the appearence that they are grasping at straws.

I want to hear how this is a bad thing for our side.   

[FlaGator]

I really enjoy how they jump on any little thing that they get in to their little heads and turn it in to absolute proof of something of another. It just shows how desperate they really are. I have to agree with Cali here, it does make Obama supporters look desperate and gives the appearence that they are grasping at straws.

I want to hear how this is a bad thing for our side.   

I love the smell of desperation in the morning. It smells like DU!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Taking the lesser chance that she might have gone into full labor and delivered the baby outside a neonatal ICU is not tantamount to an abortion, something so stupid that only a DUmmie could entertain such a stupid idea.  On top of that, a DUmmie trying to make that argument is like the horse trying to tell the burro that oats are really, really bad and he shouldn't eat them.

[MrsSmith]

Some airlines have policies against pregnant women onboard during the last four weeks of pregnancy, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises against flying after 36 weeks

As Trig was born 4 weeks early, Sarah was not over that time limit. 

Still, a Sacramento, Calif., obstetrician who is active in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said when a pregnant woman's water breaks, she should go right to the hospital because of the risk of infection. That's true even if the amniotic fluid simply leaks out, said Dr. Laurie Gregg.

"To us, leaking and broken, we are talking the same thing. We are talking doctor-speak," Gregg said.

Aside from the condescending attitude, does anyone really believe that there would be a raging infection within hours of the breakage?    Not to mention the fact that you're more likely to pick up an infection IN a hospital than anywhere else.   

I wonder how many calls they had to make to get someone like Gregg to make a statement that backs up their little theory?

[DixieBelle]

^good point, I'm sure they cherry-picked.

The important thing to note in what was posted above is that they had INDUCE her. And, she was having minor contractions off and on throughout the pregnancy.