Well, there are legal implications to claiming your grandson as your son without going through a formal adoption process.
Plus, there's the rumored details of the end of Palin's last pregnancy: namely that her water broke, she flew to TX to give a speech, flew BACK to Alaska, and then had her husband drive her 30 minutes from home to a hospital to give birth. All this while knowing full well she was carrying a Down's child, who might have special medical needs at birth (which could have been more easily addressed in TX than in AK), and already a high-risk pregnancy due to her age (43, I believe).
So the issues are as follows:
1) She's illegally claiming her grandson is her son without a formal/legal adoption; OR
2) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are exaggerated to make her look tougher; OR
3) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are accurate, and she unnecessarily risked her son's life/health (and possibly her own) for her political party and/or career.
At least some of the first issue is deflected if you can biologically refute it. But that doesn't check the issues with the latter two points I made, in which case I agree -- and feel bad that Bristol Palin is going to be a big ol' political pawn without her consent. Even if the choice to keep the child is her own, she didn't agree to being in the national spotlight because her mother accepted a VP nomination.
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Date: 2008-09-02 01:16 pm (UTC)Plus, there's the rumored details of the end of Palin's last pregnancy: namely that her water broke, she flew to TX to give a speech, flew BACK to Alaska, and then had her husband drive her 30 minutes from home to a hospital to give birth. All this while knowing full well she was carrying a Down's child, who might have special medical needs at birth (which could have been more easily addressed in TX than in AK), and already a high-risk pregnancy due to her age (43, I believe).
So the issues are as follows:
1) She's illegally claiming her grandson is her son without a formal/legal adoption; OR
2) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are exaggerated to make her look tougher; OR
3) The rumors about the end of her last pregnancy are accurate, and she unnecessarily risked her son's life/health (and possibly her own) for her political party and/or career.
At least some of the first issue is deflected if you can biologically refute it. But that doesn't check the issues with the latter two points I made, in which case I agree -- and feel bad that Bristol Palin is going to be a big ol' political pawn without her consent. Even if the choice to keep the child is her own, she didn't agree to being in the national spotlight because her mother accepted a VP nomination.