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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nrlc@nrlc.org [mailto:nrlc@nrlc.org]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 17, 2009 5:17 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Art
Kelly<BR><B>Subject:</B> A Deeply Moving Speech by Pro-Life Gov. Sarah
Palin<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P align=left><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Today's News &
Views<BR>April 17, 2009</FONT></B></P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><B><FONT size=4>A
Deeply Moving Speech by Pro-Life Gov. Sarah Palin</FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>By Dave
Andrusko</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><I><FONT
size=2>Editor's note. Please send me your comments at <A
style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; text-underline: single"
href="mailto:daveandrusko@gmail.com">daveandrusko@gmail.com</A>.</FONT></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Her
remarks lasted only 30 minutes, but in that half-hour pro-life
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin demonstrated all the qualities that make
pro-lifers want to hug her the instant they meet last year's GOP
vice presidential candidate. She was droll but funny, gubernatorial
but folksy, and charismatic but one of us. And very inspirational!
And very gutsy.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>The
occasion was the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner
held at the Centre in Evansville, Indiana. This annual event
always draws huge crowds. Last night, there were 2,180 in attendance
at Palin's speech and another 2,500 were able to watch her on a live
feed.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>I was
able to watch the entire riveting speech on YouTube. I would highly
recommend that you sit down and listen closely. <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiG72pOls0c">www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiG72pOls0c</A></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"
align=center><IMG height=320
src="http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/April09/ToddSarahandTrig.jpg"
width=281 border=0 NOSEND="1"><BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2><I><FONT size=2>Sarah and Todd Palin, shown with Trig
<BR>as a newborn. Trig turns one
tomorrow.</FONT></I></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Some
press accounts were amazed by, others snarky about, Palin's candid
discussion of the many extraordinary challenges of the last year or
so, including finding out that she was pregnant at 44 and later that
her baby would have Down syndrome. She already had four kids, a
demanding job, and a husband whose job was hundreds of miles away.
On top of that her oldest son was about to deploy to Iraq and
Palin's then-17-year-old daughter told her she was "going to be a
mom. Talk about change!" </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Before
she gave even more details, Palin added, "There has been great
purpose in what I went through this past year." I'll quote at length
from the speech as delivered. If there is a dominant theme it would
seem to me to be that women and girls are stronger than they may
have been led to believe and that Palin's faith was instrumental in
a year of almost impossible demands.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Palin
told her audience that she found out at 13 weeks that Trig would
have Down syndrome and "that blew me away, it just rocked my world.
And to be honest with you I had a heck of a time being able to put
my arms around the idea of first of having a baby at 44 and then
knowing that the baby would have some challenges. It was serious
time of testing. … It was a time where I had to ask myself, 'Was I
going to walk the walk, or was I just going to talk the talk?'"
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>She then
explained that she had first found out she was pregnant while
attending an out-of-state conference. "Just for a fleeting moment, I
knew, nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know. I thought, wow,
it is, it could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the
circumstances and no one would know, no one would ever know.
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>"Then
when my amniocentesis results came back, showing what they called
abnormalities. Oh, dear God, instantly I had 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."</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Not even
Todd knew she was pregnant. "No one would know," she said, and then
added, "But I would know."</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>A moment
later, she lightened the atmosphere: </FONT><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=2>"Plus, I was old," she quipped.
"And I thought, 'Very funny, God. My name's Sarah, but my husband's
not Abraham, he's Todd.'" </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>These
were "truly less than ideal circumstances, perhaps, but I had just
enough faith to know that my trying to change the circumstances
wasn't any answer." </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Growing
increasingly more reflective, Palin said, "I came to believe that
Trig's prenatal test was me being asked if I would trust and believe
and, more importantly, live out what I had been saying for years
about the pro-life movement and the purpose and the sanctity of
every life, no matter the circumstances. <SPAN
style="COLOR: #ffc000">'</SPAN>I'd always been pro-life,<SPAN
style="COLOR: #ffc000">'</SPAN> I said. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>"So we
went through some things a year ago that now lets me understand a
woman, a girl's temptation to maybe try to make it all go away, if
she has been influenced by society to believe that she is not strong
enough or smart enough or equipped enough or convenienced enough to
make the choice to let the child live. I do understand that what
these women, what these girls go through in that thought
process."</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>The most
revealing moments for me were when Palin talked about trying to
research what it meant for a child to have Down syndrome.
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>"It just
seemed liked when I tried to open the book, like this was something
for someone else, someone stronger and maybe more compassionate than
I, to be able to give this child what he would need, to better
handle the circumstances. I wasn't sure if my heart could hold what
this baby would need. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>"So I
prayed that my heart would be filled up. What else did I have? I had
to call upon my faith and ask that my heart be filled up. And I'll
tell you the moment he was born I knew for sure that my prayer was
answered. And my heart overflowed with joy." Thunderous
applause.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>"And I
tell you this for a reason. I felt a love that I had never felt
before and compassion that I didn't even know was there. Trig is a
miracle … . He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I
want other women to give this a chance and experience this, this
that can make their lives better, not inconvenienced or
burdened."</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>An
incredible speech, an honest speech. It was the kind of speech only
a pro-lifer who had been through the fire and had come out the other
side having protected her baby, could give. </FONT></P>
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