Spin Echo wrote:Durandal wrote:Phil Skayhan wrote:Are we seriously entertaining this tripe about Palin's pregnancy and her daughter? Do we have anything close to resembling a reputable source for this? Or are we no better than Dem. Underground or RedState?
I thought that we're above tabloid scandal in dissecting political creatures. Christ, it's not as though there aren't enough ideological reasons to disagree with and tear into.
It's not so much the rumor but the things which the rumor uncovers about the truth. At
best, she's incredibly negligent. At worst, she's a hypocrite who covered up her teenage daughter's pregnancy after yammering about how the state should stick its nose into women's vaginas.
While I imagine this is probably conspiracy nonsense, it does strike me as rather odd. Typically the women that don't show they are pregnant until late are the heavier ones, not the rather fit ones in the case of Palin.
That being said, I think it would almost reflect better upon her if it were true. At least it could be spun in some sort of mother trying to do what's best for her teenage daughter. As it stands, it looks as if she has no regard as to the safety of her child. She's flying with a high risk case baby at 8 months when doctors recommend women with
normal pregnancies don't fly after 7 months.
Actually, one of my sisters had clearance to fly on commercial planes through her ninth month. The main concern is premature labor/emergency at 30,000 with no medical personal and minimum of a 30-45 wait just to get on the ground, much less to a hospital. There is no reason a
healthy woman with a
normal pregnancy can't step onto an airplane at 8 months for a
brief flight. I'm sure it's quite common in Alaska, many parts of which your options for travel are either airplane or dogsled (well, snowmobile these days). Granted, with Downs in the picture things aren't quite normal but that doesn't mean the
mother is having problems.
Knowing that, I was willing to cut her some slack when I first heard this but the flight she boarded was a
six hour flight and that IS long enough to cause some concern during pregnancy.
She then goes into labour prematurely and instead of going to a hospital in Texas to be looked after, she gives a speech and then flys back to Alaska. Nevermind that a premie down syndrome baby is a high risk case. And then once in Alaska, she drives out to bumfuck Alaska to give birth as opposed to going to the best equiped hospitals in the state.
Ya, this is also funny-weird. Didn't her water supposedly break? That's considered an
emergency and even if it doesn't prompt immediate labor all sorts of risk factors go up with it. So, um, her water breaks BUT she doesn't go to a doctor, she stands up to give a speech, then boards an airplane for a 6 hour flight to Alaska
supposedly while in labor - granted, labor usually does take hours, but sometimes the baby pops out very quickly - going away from advanced medical care instead of towards it....? WTF?
Oh, and I agree - in the recent pictures posted around here her daughter looks more pregnant than she does.
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