Sarah Palin | 04/17/2009 9:25 am
Sarah Palin Discusses Trig Decision: She Had to 'Walk the Walk'
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Sarah Palin ventured outside Alaska yesterday and headed to Indiana, where she addressed a crowd of nearly 3,000 pro-life activists.
In an especially candid moment, Palin discussed her decision making when it came to having her son, Trig, who she knew would be born with Down’s syndrome. The governor told the crowd that she knew she could abort the child, but chose to "walk the walk" and support his life.
Palin explained that she was out of Alaska when she found out, and did briefly toy with the idea of terminating the pregnancy: "There, just for a fleeting moment, I thought, I knew, nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know. I thought, wow, it is easy. It could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances. No one would know. No one would ever know."
Her conscience and faith, however, won in the end: "It was a time when I had to ask myself, was I gonna walk the walk or I was gonna talk the talk … I had just enough faith to know that trying to change the circumstances wasn’t any answer." And for that we commend you, Gov. Palin.
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Mary…"Are some people’s political manifestos so ingrained, so rabid that they fail to recognize the humanity and challenges another can face?"
YES!!!
Libra-
I was fortunate enough to hear parts of her speech and it really moved me. LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…..so true, so true.
TP….I just don’t understand why Gov. Palin causes such a stir here….she has her beliefs on abortion, but she is not trying to change the laws or change women’s views on abortion, she is speaking to a right-to-life group, and they are there with the same opinions as she has…..and that is why she is giving this heartfelt speech….she’s not asking for people who are totally against her to listen to her….so I wish they would just leave her alone and get off her case. If posters here hate her so much, then why do they come on to bash her here? I just dont understand it.
Hi Deborah,
Yes, Sarah Palin is first rate class act! She spoke so honestly and from the heart, by doing so she showed others that she understood the perdicaments that women can go through while at the same time, also showing them that there is always a better way than having an abortion. This is a woman of the highest moral caliber who most assuredly puts her money where her mouth is and walks the talk!
Hi Deborah,
I’m having a great day and thank you for wishing me one! Hope your day is awesome as well. :))
Mimi….we all see that about FP…I wish he would take his anger out somewhere else….there are a few that show such anger everyday on here, and I just don’t know if their purpose is to just bring everyone down to their level or what the reasoning is, but it does get old….some of the posts have already been removed because there was no reason for it….no matter what the topic is about Gov. Palin, you will find the same bashing, the same words repeated over and over….
Gov. Palin’s speech was beautiful and brought tears to my eyes….today the radio is playing parts of it and she is definitely talking the talk with her words!