I'm sorry, a few photographs of her in March and April 2008 in which she appears pregnant should not be enough "proof" for anyone that she actually gave birth to Trig, when taken in balance with the large number of reasonable questions that remain about her choices during her pregnancy and birth.
Make no mistake here, people. What the McCain campaign did was nothing short of genius. Faced with some very legitimate questions about the circumstances surrounding Sarah Palin's birth in April of 2008, they managed to diffuse the entire situation without ever releasing a single piece of information about Sarah Palin OR the birth. Instead, the story was re-framed to be about a seventeen year old girl, and then, immediately became "off limits" because families are off limits. That they were able to get away with this "switcharoo" is astonishing.
No 44 year old woman, pregnant for the fifth time with a special needs child would make the choices she supposedly made, and no doctor would support them. She traveled out of state at 35-36 weeks. After experiencing premature rupture of membranes, she waited nearly twelve hours to give a speech then traveled nearly twelve hours more, taking two separate flights both of which had flight times of around four hours. Expected duration of labor for someone with Gov. Palin's history (four previous vaginal births) would be 6 hours +/- 3.6 hours. This means that 66% of women will give birth within 9.6 hours and 99% will give birth within 13 hours. It was not only "possible" that she would give birth on the airplane, it was PROBABLE. Then, once arriving in Alaska, she did not travel to a hospital with a NICU that was 6 miles from the airport. She drove to a rural health facility, 1 hour away, that had no high-risk facilities, and had as her physician a family practice doctor who is reported on the hospital's website as having done ONLY THREE BIRTHS in the previous two years! As a midwife, I am 100% confident that much of what has been released regarding this pregnancy and birth is untrue. I don't know what the truth IS but I know a lie when I see one.
And once you have that as a "starting point," then you have to start looking at all the other coincidences. Like the "coincidence" that she never looked pregnant at all before the announcement, and even afterward people had their doubts. (One writer in the Anchorage Daily News asked facetiously one week after Gov. Palin's announcement, "Where is she hiding that baby? In her pocket?"), yet we have a photograph of her in a previous pregnancy in which she looks... pregnant. Like the "coincidence" that rumors existed before Gov. Palin announced her pregnancy on March 8th that Bristol was expecting, yet Palin never did the logical (and frankly pretty simple) thing: appear in public with her daughter, even one time. Like the "coincidence" that Bristol was removed from one school in late fall 2007 but never attended another one, due to "mono." Or what about the "coincidence" that not one photo of the Palin family exists around the time of the birth, even though it's been claimed that all three of the Palin daughters were at the hospital. And then you have the fact that Palin's doctor, beyond some very brief statements made last April, has never once been willing to give the simplest statement to the press regarding Gov. Palin's birth. Wouldn't you think that having your doctor do a press conference and announce "Yes, I was at the birth on April 18th, 2008" would be preferable to telling the whole world that your seventeen daughter was pregnant? Apparently not.
A few brief glimpses of a pregnant-appearing Gov. Palin in a Greta Van Sustern "bio" prove nothing. The announcement from the McCain campaign that Bristol pregnant is now (well, as of 9/1) five months pregnant, put the brakes on the whole story, but it shouldn't have. Gov. Palin has used the fact that she gave birth to a child in April knowing that he had Down's as part and parcel of her political persona. This moves the whole issue out of the private realm, and into the public. In the face of legitimate evidence that the event did not happen the way she claims it did, the public does have the right to get some real answers. As of yet, we have not gotten them.
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