{"id":1465,"date":"2008-09-16T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2008-09-16T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:15:34","slug":"is-palin-a-poser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Is Palin a Poser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a thirty-year Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Diogenes\/NotEudora02\/sympathyformmurder.htm\">pushed to the margins<\/a> by a Party which has made abortion its first test of loyalty I&#8217;m struck by this question about the Party&#8217;s latest heroine: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An interesting debate has been going on out of the media limelight. Sarah Palin&#8217;s decision earlier this year to have an amniocentesis to determine if her unborn child had Down Syndrome is not uncontroversial among pro-lifers. I&#8217;d be curious to find out from women readers, especially pro-life women readers, what their views of amniocentesis are, and how common it is for totally principled pro-life pregnant women to consent to having them. The reason for the debate is two-fold: a) if you are not considering an abortion, there isn&#8217;t much point in having an amniocentesis; and  b) much more important for a pro-lifer, an amniocentesis poses a small but real risk to the life of an unborn child. According to the Christian News Service:&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Palin also believes in contraception contrary to most in her religous wing of the GOP. I agree with her. As a young Mother who gave birth eight months after she eloped I think that&#8217;s a very rational decision on her part. But its not part the Party line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a thirty-year Republican pushed to the margins by a Party which has made abortion its first test of loyalty I&#8217;m struck by this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,31,75,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-gods-own-party","category-good-republicans","category-prez-politics-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}