If one is so pro-life, why hide your pregnancy for almost 8 months as Palin did?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Why would a pro-lifer hide her pregnancy until weeks before the baby is born? Makes no sense to me.

[seabeyond]

1. and not tell your kids. especially a really young one that needs time to adjust. n/t

[hisownpetard]

3. Is that what she did? How totally weird.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Yeah, the baby she just gave birth to, she hid the pregnancy until 7 plus months.

[TomInTib]

9. Wow! And she has teenagers.

Totally weird.

[seabeyond]

10. all of it is weird. water broke and got on a plane for 11 hour flight.

went back to work three days after baby. what about any of that sounds right

[Divernan]

14. With a 5th child, birth would be within a few hours at most, after water breaks.

"STEVEN HOCKSTEIN, MD: When the bag of water breaks, and that's the membrane surrounding the baby, which holds in the amniotic fluid, there's a release of prostaglandins. And whether it happens naturally, or whether the patient's physician breaks the bag of water, these chemicals are released, and contractions become more regular and become more intense.

MICHELLE LAMOTHE, MD: So they help things get going and move along."

And she claims that AFTER her water broke she stayed at the conference, and then stood up and gave a 30 minute presentation.

Knowing the special birth hazards for both the Downs syndrome infant and an older mother, it would be criminal to attempt a 10-12 hour flight from Texas to Anchorage under those conditions. Nope. She would have been rushed to a Texas hospital.

Plus, the baby was 6 pounds, 2 oz. at birth, and Downs syndrome babies are typically at least 10 percent under normal birth weights. The baby sounds full term to me. Palen's staffer told press that the baby came a month early. I think when Palen decided to try to claim her daughter's child as her own, her daughter was already 8 months pregnant.
Yada-yada-yada. It usually would be strictly the families' business. This story is old as the hills and has happened to many families. What matters is that Palen is pushing the just-say-no crap with no birth control teaching for school kids, along with stating that creationism should be taught in science classes. I couldn't understand why Palen had an amnio test done, since she would not opt for abortion under any possible circumstances. I suspect they were trying to arrange a very quick and quiet adoption of their daughter's child, but the adoptive parents asked for reassurance that the child was healthy and had the test done. Once they learned of the medical problems, adoptive parents backed out.

[hisownpetard]

19. You're supposed to deliver within 24 hrs. of your water breaking so that was quite a risk.

Secondly - even if her water had broken, she was still pregnant, and I thought that airlines don't allow you to fly
if you're 7 months or more.

More questions than answers!

[YDogg]

2. exactly

[alittlelark]

4. See this thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3879229.


The pics are.... well, look at it.

[Nitrogenica]

5. She couldn't decide weather to abort or not, and if she did, it would be secret.

[LostInAnomie]

6. Covering up for a daughter that didn't take her "abstinence only" education seriously.

[DebJ]

8. "Desperate Housewives" plot similarity.

[JenniferJuniper]

11. And how about those names

Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

Track and Trig?

There is somthing lurking here. What it is ain't exactly clear. Yet.

[RC]

15. What, no son named Math?

[stray cat]

12. Unless she wasn't pregnant and she withdrew her pregnant daughter from school

to cover up the pregnancy for political purposes and claiming the child was hers.

[seabeyond]

13. her daughter was out of school for a very long period with mono.... n/t

[libnnc]

20. I got over mono in 2 weeks...

WNC mountain gals are tougher, I guess. :shrug:

[undeterred]

16. Clearly she was covering up for her teenaged daughter.

I think its all going to come out. She doesn't look pregnant in the pics because she isn't. If she's been pregnant before she would have been wearing maternity clothes at 7 months and would not be concealing it. The story was concocted later.

[stillcool]

17. The more I read about her..

the more confused I get. This is an interesting story from when she was running for Governor..and my favoite quote so far...

Palin has cited her mayoral work as a central part of her qualification to serve as governor. But at the beginning of her term, asked by the local newspaper how she would run the city without experienced department heads, she made the job sound like no big deal: "It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees."
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/v-printer/story/8334949p-8231037c.html

[spanone]

18. it does seem odd, and at 7 months, you'd have to work at it