WHY Won't Palin Release Medical Records?

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Registered: 09-08-2008
WHY Won't Palin Release Medical Records?
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Fri, 10-31-2008 - 11:32pm

I have not heard if Palin's is going to release her medical records. She is the youngest, and so why all of the hub bub? Conspiracy Theory: Trig is Bristols? The blogs stated it first.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 1:50am

((((Does this send cold chills down your spine or what?) )))


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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 1:52am
lol.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 2:33am

Okay, to be honest, I did not remember POST #11


"the intent

 

 

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 2:38am
Okay, what purpose did this post serve? joe the plumber is more imaginary than these circumstances...lol. Another clue...Palin went back to work 3 days after giving birth????

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Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 2:50am

Another clue...Palin went back to work 3 days after giving birth????


What's the "clue" here?

 

 

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Registered: 10-17-2008
Mon, 11-03-2008 - 3:01am
'What Is Normal and What Is Perfect?'
Governor, Mom Talks About Son

By Steve Quinn
Associated Press
Saturday, May 10, 2008; 9:34 PM


JUNEAU, Alaska -- The results of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's prenatal testing were in, and the doctor's tone was ominous: "You need to come to the office so we can talk about it."


Palin responded, "No, go ahead and tell me over the phone."


The physician replied, "Down syndrome," stunning the Republican governor who had just completed what many political analysts regarded as a startling first year in office. Now, Palin said, she is trying to balance caring for her son with special needs and running the nation's largest state.


Palin had reached the Alaska statehouse after riding an ethics reform platform to victory over an incumbent Republican in the primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. Her growing reputation as a maverick, for bucking her party's establishment and Alaska's powerful oil industry, quickly gained her a national reputation.


All that seemed put into question after the doctor's call in December, when Palin was four months pregnant.


"I've never had problems with my other pregnancies, so I was shocked," said Palin, a mother of four other children. "It took a while to open up the book that the doctor gave me about children with Down syndrome, and a while to log on to the Web site and start reading facts about the situation."


Her husband, Todd, was out of town, and the 44-year-old governor waited a few days before telling him, allowing her first to understand what was ahead for them.


Once her husband got the news, he told her: "We shouldn't be asking, 'Why us?' We should be saying, 'Well, why not us?' "


Down syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the fetus's cells. The genetic abnormality impedes physical, intellectual and language development.


The cause of the abnormality remains unclear, but a mother's age plays a significant factor: A pregnant 40-year-old woman faces odds of 1 in 100 of having a child with Down syndrome, according to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.


Even after getting the diagnosis, the Palins said, there was never any doubt they would have the child, and on April 18 Sarah Palin gave birth to Trig Paxson Van Palin.


"We've both been very vocal about being pro-life," she said. "We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential."


During her first year in office, Palin distanced herself from the old guard, powerful members of the state GOP. She asked Alaska's congressional delegation to be more selective in seeking earmarks after the state's "Bridge to Nowhere" became a national symbol of piggish pork-barrel spending.


She stood up to the oil interests that hold great power in Alaska, and with bipartisan support in the statehouse, she won a tax increase on oil companies' profits. She also found time to pose for the fashion magazine Vogue while she was pregnant, and she has been mentioned among potential vice presidential running mates for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).


Three days after giving birth, Palin returned to work in her Anchorage office, accompanied by Trig and her husband.


This was not a mother's typical visit to the office to show off the new baby; instead, she was serving notice that a child of special needs will not hinder her professional commitments.


"It's a sign of the times to be able to do this," she said. "I can think of so many male candidates who watched families grow while they were in office. There is no reason to believe a woman can't do it with a growing family. My baby will not be at all or in any sense neglected."


Neither, Palin said, will the state, as she prepares to lead deliberations on a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline. That is the economic future of the state, a means of getting North Slope natural gas to consumers throughout North America.


"I will not shirk my duties," she said.


Other politicians have pressed forward with their careers despite jarring personal news.


Former senator John Edwards (N.C.) continued with his Democratic presidential campaign despite the return of wife Elizabeth's breast cancer, though he eventually dropped out.


Another elected official who has a child with Down syndrome said that although Palin will likely have detractors, that shouldn't change ambitions for the mother or child.


Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) has just celebrated the first birthday of her son, Cole, her first child. She is busy campaigning for a third term, and Cole often travels with her between Washington and the Pacific Northwest.


"Cole opened my eyes to the pain and trouble a lot of families endure," McMorris Rodgers said. "He's allowed me to see people and circumstance more deeply, and the generosity of people. It's in human nature to focus on the negative, on what the person can't do. In our mind, we are focused on what he can do, what he will be able to do and do very well."


It's not unlike how Palin sees her child.


"I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051002978_pf.html

 

 

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