'Pro-Choice' Palin Would Deny Choice to Others

Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking to an antiabortion group in Evansville, IN, revealed that for a moment she considered having an abortion.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told an antiabortion audience in Indiana on Thursday night that, "for a fleeting moment," she considered having an abortion after learning that her son Trig would have Down syndrome.

The experience, she added, "now lets me understand a woman's, a girl's temptation to maybe try to make it all go away."

Ultimately, Palin said, she decided she had to "walk the walk" concerning her long-standing antiabortion views. She avoided using the word "abortion" in her speech, preferring the phrase "change the circumstances." [...]

Palin revealed more Thursday night, saying she was traveling when she got the result of the amniocentesis that revealed the chromosomal abnormality.

"There, just for a fleeting moment, I thought, I knew, 'Nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know.' "

Palin has long been a staunch supporter of abortion restrictions, and she pointed to her own "moment of doubt" to illustrate her support for carrying pregnancies to term, regardless of the circumstances.

In other words, Sarah Palin wants the right to decide whether or not to continue a pregnancy, but she doesn't think other women should be allowed that same consideration.

And the PUMA's wonder why NOW and other women's rights groups didn't support Sarah Palin. Good grief.