{"id":392,"date":"2008-10-22T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/palin-god-gave-me-a-down-syndr.html"},"modified":"2008-10-22T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:19:33","slug":"palin-god-gave-me-a-down-syndr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/palin-god-gave-me-a-down-syndr.html","title":{"rendered":"Palin: God Gave Me a Down Syndrome Child To Help the Pro-Life Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sarah Palin interview with James Dobson of Focus on the Family<\/a>
\nI’m listening to it now and will add more quotes as I transcribe but this one line really struck me as particularly fascinating. Palin and Dobson were talking about the birth of Trig. Dobson described her decision to carry Trig to term as a “powerful testimony that is to the sanctity of human life.” Palin responded that she’s a “hard core pro lifer” and believes that Trig’s arrival allowed her to “walk the walk”:<\/p>\n

“There’s purpose in this also, for a greater good to be met…. I feel so privileged and blessed to be, I guess, chosen to have Trig in our life because I do want to help us in our cause here in allowing American to be a more welcoming nation for all of our children.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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