Palin's Personal Choice

I was going to blog about this but Ms. Ruth Marcus said it so much better.
By Ruth Marcus
Monday, April 20, 2009
I'd like to thank Sarah Palin for her bravery in explaining the importance of a woman's right to choose. Even braver, the Alaska governor made her eloquent case for choice at a right-to-life fundraising dinner.
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That was not, of course, Palin's intention in revealing that she momentarily considered having an abortion. Twice, actually -- once when she discovered she would be a mother at 44, again several weeks later when she discovered that her baby would have Down syndrome.
I'll quote Palin at length, partly because I want readers to see that I'm not taking her remarks out of context, even more because the account of her anguished choice about whether to "change the circumstances" is so gripping and so genuine. Instead of the Tina Fey caricature, we see a flesh-and-blood woman whose moral certainties are being put to a real-world test:
"I had found out that I was pregnant while out of state first, at an oil and gas conference. While out of state, there just for a fleeting moment, wow, I knew, nobody knows me here, nobody would ever know. I thought, wow, it is easy, could be easy to think, maybe, of trying to change the circumstances. No one would know. No one would ever know.
"Then when my amniocentesis results came back, showing what they called abnormalities. Oh, dear God, I knew, I had instantly an understanding for that fleeting moment why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances. Just make it all go away and get some normalcy back in life. Just take care of it. Because at the time only my doctor knew the results, Todd didn't even know. No one would know. But I would know. First, I thought how in the world could we manage a change of this magnitude. I was a very busy governor with four busy kids and a husband with a job hundreds of miles away up on the North Slope oil fields. And, oh, the criticism that I knew was coming. Plus, I was old . . .

"So we went through some things a year ago that now lets me understand a woman's, a girl's temptation to maybe try to make it all go away if she has been influenced by society to believe that she's not strong enough or smart enough or equipped enough or convenienced enough to make the choice to let the child live. I do understand what these women, what these girls go through in that thought process."
Except that, of course, if it were up to Palin, women would have no thought process to go through. The "good decision to choose life," as she put it, would be no decision at all, because abortion would not be an option.
This is not a particularly complex point, but it is one toward which Palin seems deliberately obtuse. It came up at the Republican convention last summer, when the Palins issued a statement about their daughter's pregnancy: "We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby." Again, in the world according to Palin, there would be no decision at all. Abortion would be illegal except to save the life of the mother.
I respect Palin's decision not to "make it all go away." She describes her doubts about whether she had the fortitude and patience to cope with a child with Down syndrome, and, with the force of a mother's fierce love, the special blessing that Trig has brought to her life. She speaks as someone who is confident that she made the correct choice.
For her. In fact, the overwhelming majority of couples choose to terminate pregnancies when prenatal testing shows severe abnormalities. In cases of Down syndrome, the abortion rate is as high as 90 percent.
For the crowd listening to her at last week's dinner, Palin's disclosure served the comfortable role of moral reinforcement: She wavered in her faith, was tempted to sin, regained her strength and emerged better for it.
As for those us less certain that we know, or are equipped to instruct others, when life begins and when it is permissible to terminate a pregnancy, Palin's speech offered a different lesson: Abortion is a personal issue and a personal choice. The government has no business taking that difficult decision away from those who must live with the consequences.
marcusr@washpost.com

Today's radio show on helping young black men

Today's show was about reaching young black men. Listen to the archived show at:http://www.blogtalkradio/sistagirltalks.com

Below is the information about our guests.




Randall Phillips and Sherita Bolden better known as P D B G R O U P V E N T U R E formed their Entertainment / Business Networking consortium in December 2006 with the much anticipated live concert event “Music 4 The People Vol. 1” in Chicago, Illinois.The inspiration for their partnership and this event stemmed from the " Mastermind Principle " mentioned in Napoleon Hill’s classic book “Think and Grow Rich.”


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WWW.PEntertainment Lawyer, Author, Real Estate Developer and Community Worker. He is the author of the best selling book "THIS BUSINESS OF URBAN MUSIC" released by BILLBOARD BOOKS. Please visit www.walkerandassoc.com



Living Water Church Pastor Arthur Thompson
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Despite the outlook I feel good.

For the past few days I have neglected my blog. Work has been a bit overwhelming and when I am not there I am usually unwinding from being there. One of the reasons for starting this blog was to record my own thots and opinions about the presidential race and now that the race is over and my candidate won, I find my thots probably a bit boring. The truth is this I see the bleak economic forecast for this country and I listen to more commentaries than a human being really should. I tune in to CNBC and watch my personal stock plummet and after looking at my retirement portfolio the other day I think I can retire at the old age of 80. That is cool I have nothing better to do. But let me say this I am confident in where this country is and is going and I think our future has never looked better.

As much as I love President Obama my faith is not in him it is truly in Jesus Christ. However, I feel better knowing that there is someone in the White House who seems to care, not be afraid of hard work and knows what they are doing.

For the past few days there has been chatter about President Obama and if he is trying to do to much. When I hear people asking this question I wonder what they do for a living and what their in box looks like. I think about my own work life, and I have about five projects to complete, several different reports due and it changes everyday. I nor the President have the luxury of just focusing on one thing and if I were a betting person I would guess most people do not.

Even thought we have not seen this in the past eight years this is what a competent, intelligent President does . Time and history will judge the success of President Obama and he is working like mad to make sure it does just that in a positive way. I say GO MR. PRESIDENT!

Great show on domestic violence today

We had a great show on domestic violence today. It was so powerful.

Please check it out on the archives.

God bless.

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Let's try this again.

Our show last week had to be canceled so we are going to try again on tomorrow 3/21/09.




We will also have James Walker and Pastor Author Thompson talking about this topic.Check out my Radio show Sista Girl Talks Saturdays at 10:00 a.m (EST) www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Hope you can join us.

Domestic Abuse show on 3/14/09

On tomorrow's we will have Waneta Dawn author of the book Behind the Hedge and Hannah of the blog Emotional Abuse and your faith talking about domestic abuse. We will also have James Walker and Pastor Author Thompson talking about this topic.

Check out my Radio show Sista Girl Talks Saturdays at 10:00 a.m (EST)
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Domestic Abuse

I will be talking about domestic abuse on my radio show this Saturday. It is my hope that you will join me and perhaps in the process we can help somebody.