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I've not heard yet, but when was the kid born? I mean did she get home, at last, and just immediately head to the doctor and squatted or c-sectioned it out? Or was it okay to wait a few more weeks? If she waited a while longer, then most of the criticism of her giving the speech, flying home, etc, is invalidated.

As for the main issue of putting off the birth; not to get too rudely psychological on someone I know very little about, but consider this. They knew the unborn child had Downs Syndrome. That had to play into things, don't you think? They already had 4 healthy kids, she was in her 40s, they probably didn't particularly want a "special needs" child, but her religious convictions forbid her to abort it, like most people would. So the kid's going to be born with brain damage no matter what she does; kind of lessens her worry about damaging it with all the flying around and delaying labor, etc.

So there's less worry about the health of the child, and possibly somewhere in the back of her mind she's thinking, "Well, if it dies then it's not such a loss; I'd just have had an abortion if I weren't a public figure making a career out of opposing that right for other women."

Or perhaps I'm even more cynical and calculating in my hypothetical thought process than politicians?

 

I don't know when she actually gave birth, going by the chart I'd say once she got to the hospital?

And yes, the same thoughts crossed through my mind - an easy way to dispose of the kid without having to have an abortion. However, I think if the baby had died given these circumstances, she easily could have been said to have been criminally negligent, with the potential for a manslaugter type charge against her.


My captcha looks like some kind of syndrome: mbkydexa