Sarah Palin Downs immorality - She should have to answer in VP debate on Oct 2

But amazingly Palin is coming across to the voting public as the Republican party's pillar of virtue and morality.  And she is drawing a lot of women.  Cool!  That's very clever from a political and image making point of view.  But personally that's way too two-faced for me.  I do not like it!
I think Sara Palin should have to justify her immorality in public starting with the vice presidential debate on October 2.  And McCain should have to do the same in the presidential debates of October 7 and 15.  So in the below I put together some tightly worded questions about Down syndrome.  And I am asking everyone who reads this to send in some version of these questions to Gwen Ifill newsdesk@newshour.org,-áTom Brokaw mary.casalino@nbcuni.com and-áBob Schieffer cwa@cbsnews.com.  Ifill is moderator for the VP debate.  Her PBS point of contact is at 703-998-2150.

There is no formal channel for the public to submit written questions for the presidential debates, but I am told these email addresses will suffice.  You might call, though, to make sure your email was noticed.  For the October 7 debate with Brokaw moderating, viewers are supposed to be able to submit questions in real time via MyDebates.org

Please do adapt wording of the questions I pose to suit your own preference.  You might not want the last paragraph, for instance, or the last two.  My take is that since there will be many, many questions submitted for consideration, there needs to be something to command notice by the reviewers.  The last paragraphs might get them to use the first paragraphs.  But who knows?  The last paragraph might make them reject the whole thing.  Use your own wording.  (There are more questions at-áwww.EggInfo.info-áand a long list of references at-áwww.EggInfo.info/references.html)

I doubt that the Democrats will bring up the type of questions I propose about Down syndrome during the campaign.  This is because campaigning must target messages that are simple and that already have credence with voters (like God, mother & country).  My proposed questions about Down syndrome are not this.  They reflect instead a different way of thinking.  It doesn't matter if new science is right.  Our Democratic political leadership will probably will not venture to go here.

But the news media are not bound by having to stick to messages that already have credence.  They are just the opposite, trying to expose wrongs of politicians.  So again I ask, please send in Down syndrome questions for the presidential and especially the vice presidential debate.

Palin knowingly chose to bring a handicapped person to life when she didn't have to.  That is morally wrong.  She should have to justify her action in public, and especially to the 80 % of women who disagree with her.

Henry Andrews
henry@egginfo.info
703-589-3770

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Concerning Down Syndrome:-á-á

It is not a private decision. -áIt is public because it means asking for public funds.-á

Down syndrome can be detected with high reliability by the end of the first trimester, and 80 percent of women given such a diagnosis choose eugenic abortion. Many feel that knowingly choosing to cary such a baby to term is a morally unconscionable sin. And some feel that they should not have to pay either their public tax or private insurance dollars for the extended care that ensues.-á

Do you agree with this morally-based financial concern? Do you think Downs syndrome prenatal screening should be extended to all pregnant women? Would you be inclined to modify the Disabilities Act and shift Downs financial burden to private insurance plans for those who would choose to avoid eugenic abortion?-á

Also, it is now known that the human reproductive system does not work by getting everything right in the first place, but instead by having a chance of getting things right and then culling out the mistakes, a lot of them. -áSome 1/2 to 2/3 or more of fertilized eggs do not make it, and half the failures are predestined by a chromosome or cytoplasm problem in the egg at the time of ovulation. -áTrisomy eggs are a normal occurrence, except that trisomy 21 becomes abnormal when it fails to self abort like the others. -áSome people aware of this new information feel that eugenic abortion of first-trimester Down syndrome is a matter of helping nature do its normal culling - so there is no moral objection only moral obligation to prevent disability. -áDo you agree with this new-science morality? -áIf not, what is wrong with it? -áWould this new-science morality affect your legislative decisions?

And finally there are the related and even more difficult questions about hermaphrodites.  Sonograms can detect fetuses with both sex organs.  And also like Downs, hermaphroditism is a condition that fails to be eliminated during nature's early attrition process.  Unlike Downs, tough, hermaphroditism does not cause mental or physical disability.  But it is a form of Chimerism and does cause grave and potentially fatal psychological distress.  The arguably best known case was a French person who kept a diary.  Being able to have sex with either sex is not fun.  It committed suicide at age 25.  One of least know cases is reported in a recent medical journal article.  Two separately fertilized embryos fused and then later split causing hermaphroditic twins.  It was an IVF pregnancy being closely watched, but like Sarah Palin when given diagnosis, the mother declined eugenic abortion.  As with Downs, there is the same new science point of view that now available eugenic abortion is a matter of helping nature where it needs help in its normal attrition process of down-selecting to eliminate its bad starts.  And again there is the same question about whether prenatal exams should be required.  Would this new-science morality affect your legislative decisions?

References are given at-áwww.EggInfo.info/references.html-á

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More about the debates and the email list for submitting questions:

1 - Foreign policy and national security
     September 26, Friday
     Jim Lehrer of PBS moderator
2 - All topics - The one VP debate
     October 2, Thursday
     Gwen Ifill of PBS moderator-á
     Her POC is at -á703-998-2150 -á-á
     Send email to: -ánewsdesk@newshour.org
3 - All topics, -á Town meeting format*
     October 7 Tuesday
     Tom Brokaw of NBC moderator-á
     His secretary is -á mary.casalino@nbcuni.com
     NBC NY is 212-664-4444
4 - Domestic policy and economic issues
     October 15, Wednesday
     Bob Schieffer of CBS moderator
     CBS is 202-457-4321-á
     Email to -ácwa@cbsnews.com -áand he will forward to Schieffer.
*Voters are supposed to be able to submit questions in real time via MyDebates.org

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