Why The Media Feminists Hate Palin
By Cliff Kincaid
September 10, 2008
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If you go to the Love and Learning website, (web site) you can learn more about how parents are caring for and educating their disabled children. The language and learning development materials help children with Down syndrome and other special needs reach their potential. Kurt and Margie Kondrich tell part of their story there, too, and there is a picture of Kurt holding Chloe.
George Will wrote about his own son, Jon, navigating Washington's subway system to use his season tickets to the Wizards basketball games. But when he was born in 1972, Will recalls, "a time when an episode on a network television hospital drama asserted that people with Down syndrome could not be toilet-trained," the hospital geneticist "asked Jon's parents if they intended to take him home."
Will added, "That question is, surely, no longer asked when Down syndrome babies are born. But there are modern pressures to prevent such babies from being born, pressures that include the perfection-is-an-entitlement attitude of some expecting parents."
In order to counter the demands for abortion in these cases, Will mentions a bill, the Prenatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act, whose purpose is "to increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to patients" receiving positive test diagnoses for Down syndrome, spina bifida and other conditions.
The bill, currently known as S. 1810, is bipartisan, and it was introduced by Senator Sam Brownback. But it has few co-sponsors. The House version, H.R. 3112, has only a few as well. The measures get no significant media attention because they raise questions about whether abortion is truly the right "choice" in those cases.
Amid the partisan rancor in Washington, D.C., might it be possible, in light of the Palin pick, for Democrats and Republicans to pass this bill in quick order and do something to provide information to parents and save lives?
All that they are asking for is more information in order to make an informed judgment. Isn't that what "choice" is supposed to be all about?
Palin, of course, didn't need special information in order to make her "choice" to save Trig's life. She knew, as a mother, that the baby had rights that she could not and should not take away. She knew it was a subject not above her pay grade.
In the days ahead, as Charles Gibson of ABC and other media stars get their chance to interrogate the Republican vice-presidential candidate, we will be hearing about her views on a wide variety of issues. They may able to trip her up on something or other.
But she has already demonstrated superior knowledge on an issue that is one of the most central of our time.
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Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.
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