Aug 30 2008
The Palin Crucible: Abortion
When we women think about abortion, our thoughts are unlike the thoughts of men. Our deliberations are at least somewhat personal.
Most of us live our lives with a plan to be abortion-free. We abstain or take precautions to avoid a baby we aren’t ready for. Most of us feel abortion is inherently bad, and most of us have a personal FEAR of not having the option of having an abortion if we find our precautions have failed. To some degree, the abortion argument is a fear-based one that we women feel – personally.
But by her example – Sarah Palin is young, athletic, beautiful, and a mother of 5, including a baby with Downs Syndrome – Sarah Palin shows that it is POSSIBLE for us to have even the baby we didn’t plan for. She removes some of the personal fear, thereby taking some of the sting out of the pro-choice argument.
On the issues, I am more supportive of Obama than of McCain. But the argument to on the fence women that McCain supports the overthrow of Roe v. Wade is weakened, because Sarah supports McCain’s view, and makes it possible for us to consider it – as women.
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