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Sarah Palin

Former Governor of Alaska (R)

Tier 4 - Personhood Never


As a candidate whom many pro-lifers want to support, her actual abortion record and rhetoric is shocking to the conscience.
  • As a Candidate whom Many Pro-lifers Would Like to Support: her actual abortion record and rhetoric is shocking to the conscience in that Sarah Palin:
    - appointed in 2009 a Planned Parenthood board member to the Alaska Supreme Court
    - indicates that chemical abortifacients that kill the youngest children should be legal
    - distinguishes between her "personal" and public pro-life views (personally pro-life means officially pro-choice)
    - indicates support for public funding to kill some unborn children
    - whitewashes other candidates misleading millions to believe that pro-choice politicians are pro-life
    - allows her name to be used in ads promoting grisly government-funded embryonic stem cell "research"
    - undermines the God-given right to life by promoting evolution while officially opposing creation
    - harms personhood by holding that "equal protection" should not apply to unborn children
    - has never announced support for any state's personhood amendment nor the Federal Human Personhood Amendment
    - opposes personhood by claiming that the majority can decide to legalize the killing of children.
    In her vice-presidential acceptance speech Sarah said, "there is a time for politics and a time for leadership."1 During the above, which time was it for her? Sources below document Sarah Palin's record and political rhetoric.
  • Thinks the Morning After Pill should be Legal: Palin says that personally she would not take the Morning After Pill (an abortifacient chemical that kills the tiniest children) but that it should not be illegal. "I don't think that it should necessarily be illegal."2 This demonstrates the ARTL adage that: To be personally pro-life means to be officially pro-choice.3
  • Palin Appointed Planned Parenthood Board Member to Supreme Court: As documented by the Anchorage Daily News and reported by many other sources, in 2009 Sarah Palin appointed former Planned Parenthood board member4 5 6 7 Morgan Christen to Alaska's Supreme Court. Of the unrepentant pro-abortion Christen, Palin wrote, "I have every confidence that Judge Christen has the... wisdom and character to be an outstanding Supreme Court justice."8 9
  • Update on the Planned Parenthood Appointee: Although Sarah Palin scrubbed her official website (see below) of her praise of Christen within one day of the publication of this Palin Pro-life Profile, and although she has made excuses claiming that she
    had no real choice in the appointment, neither Christen nor Palin has has ever denied that Morgan Christen had been a Planned Parenthood board member. Alaska's leading newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News, has never issued a correction of their own reporting that Christen "was on the board of Planned Parenthood" 10 because unlike some undocumented claims to the contrary circulating on the internet rumor mill, it is true that Sarah Palin did appoint a former Planned Parenthood board member to the Alaska Supreme Court.
  • Excuses Regarding the Planned Parenthood Appointee: Sarah Palin11 makes excuses for appointing a former Planned Parenthood board member to the state's highest court by pretending she had no choice. Rightly so, under no circumstance would Palin have appointed a known racist. That would be too politically incorrect, and would have benefitted her political career to put up a fight in such a circumstance. But Morgan Christen is not a known racist, but a known supporter of killing unborn children. Sarah Palin is like a supposed abolitionist who appoints a slave trader to the Supreme Court. Sarah doesn't deny Christen's pro-abortion credentials; she only makes excuses for appointing her, saying as no adult, let alone no leader, ever should: I had no choice. She is taking her cue from George W. Bush, who kept his first campaign promise12 which was that he would ignore abortion when nominating judges. And in apparent thanks, the pro-life industry praises him, and none of this is lost on Sarah Palin. The candidate wrote in Going Rogue that she does not use "abortion... as a political litmust test. I... had never asked anyone, including the Democrats I appointed, what their position on abortion was..."13 And Palin later added, "I had just appointed a well-qualified woman [Morgan Christen] to serve on the highest court in the state, and now I got a call at midnight from the pastor of a large ministry in the Lower 48. I had never met this man but he told me that he had been at a conference when he received a message that threw the conferees for a loop. The problem? I had appointed a judge who [sic] this pastor didn't think was pro-life enough. ... 'How could you have done that? ... I can't tell you how disappointed we are.' ... 'Sir, with all due respect, let me tell you what the circumstances are.' "14 Palin then proceeded to justify her appointment of an unrepentant pro-abortion attorney, which appointment is completely consistent with her pledge to ignore abortion when nominating judges. (Of course, if the pro-life industry does not attempt to stop this growing laissez faire attitude in judicial appointments, its political naivete and ineptness will be further exposed.)
  • SarahPAC Scrubs Site: The initial launch of this ProlifeProfiles website featured this Sarah Palin report. As reported by the secular media,15 within 24 hours of the launch of ProlifeProfiles.com, Sarah Palin's political action committee removed their own glowing news report of the governor's appointment of an unrepentant Planned Parenthood board member to the Alaska Supreme Court. You can still see:
    - the broken link
    - an archived .pdf image of Palin's PAC page
    - an archived .html copy of the Google cache of that page.
    SarahPAC took down this information; ProlifeProfiles put it back up. Welcome to the end of child killing in our lifetime.16 If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps, got hit. SarahPAC removed their report of Palin's appointment showing that they realize how incriminating this information is. Sarah Palin should have released a humble apology, but instead she tries a cover-up. While National RTL and the pro-life industry continue to allow the Body of Christ to be deceived into thinking that Sarah is 100% pro-life. But she cannot hide her record from God, nor from the public. Please pray that Sarah will apologize to the children of Alaska, specifically those who have been dismembered since March 4, 2009, for appointing an "outstanding" unrepentant child killer. 
  • Claims a Child's Right to Life comes from the Government: Palin undermines the God-given right to life of the unborn by wrongly indicating that a child's right to live comes from government by the people rather than from the Creator. The Anchorage Daily News asked Palin: "to what extent should abortion be prohibited in Alaska?" Sarah should have answered correctly that Alaska should never allow a single innocent child to be put to death. Instead of providing leadership and teaching that the child's right to life comes from God, Palin passed the buck. She answered in writing, "it would not be up to the governor... It would be up to the people of Alaska to discuss and decide..."17 18 The News did not ask Palin "how" but "should" abortion be prohibited. To see how wrong and destructive Palin's answer is, imagine an anti-slavery activist, or an opposition leader in NAZI Germany, when asked if blacks should be free, or if Jews should be protected by law, who answered, "It would be up to the people to decide." Government implodes when political leaders do not stress that rights are inherent and inalienable. And during a populace appeal for power, a Christian leader who disregards the Creator as the source of human rights deSarah & Todd and their youngest child Trigmonstrates political cowardice and further erodes the hope of the innocent.
  • Imposes Her Own Opinion, But Only When She's Wrong: When Palin says that the people or their legislature should decide whether or not to de-criminalize killing children, some may attribute that error to a false understanding of the separation of powers or a false sense of humility. However the Alaskan people did speak when 68% of them  passed a defense of marriage amendment against homosexual marriage.19 20And consistent with that statewide vote the Alaska legislature passed a law effectively opposing efforts to legitimize homosexual unions. Again Sarah Palin had the opportunity to demonstrate courage and leadership by siding with the alliance of the people, the legislature, the truth, and with Judeao-Christian morality, but instead she sided with their state's activist supreme court and, "vetoed the law, and in effect granted marriage benefits to state employees and their partners."21 22 Thus Palin imposes her own opinion in support of tax-funded spousal benefits for homosexual unions, but defers to "the people" as to whether to protect children by love and by law from being dismembered.
  • Has Not Endorsed State Personhood Efforts: Inconsistent with her recognition of the inestimable worth of her own son Trig,23 24 25 Sarah Palin has not endorsed any state26 27 personhood amendment.
  • Has Not Endorsed the Federal Personhood Amendment: Unlike Ronald Reagan, who in 1981 offered to sign a federal human life amendment, Sarah Palin has not endorsed today's version of that effort, American Life League's Federal Human Personhood Amendment.28 Reagan publicly regretted his previous pro-abortion actions.29 Sarah Palin should exhibit the former president's willingness to acknowledge error. As with all leaders profiled on this site, Sarah Palin can raise her ProlifeProfiles ranking from Tier 4 by simply asking ProlifeProfiles.com. If Palin lets ProlifeProfiles know which Tier describes her actual commitment to the innocent, we will take her at her word.
  • Rubberstamp for Pro-abortion Lawyers: Palin wants to be viewed as a leader, but in appointing a former Planned Parenthood board member to her state's supreme court, she comes across not as a leader (which sometimes requires a fighter), but as a rubberstamp for pro-abortion lawyers. Any pro-lifer who defends such a wicked action is transferring their loyalty away from God and to a politician. If we are talking about an adult, it is simply not true to say, "she had no choice" or "she was just following orders." Palin could have just said no. Regardless of any process, a Godly governing official would refuse to appoint someone who hates Jews or wants to kill children. Alaska's former Gov. Frank Murkowski once rejected all the nominees sent to him. True, Murkowski eventually caved; but then, he was not a pro-abortion governor being told to nominate a pro-lifer. ("Pro-choicers" show commitment.) Too bad we don't love our own candidates enough to warn them of their dire wickedness. Sarah's Facebook page defending Christen appointment
  • Uses Liberal, Socialist Terminology: Palin's Facebook page uses liberal, pro-choice, socialist terminology even in a very politically sensitive context (trying to defend her pro-life credentials after appointing a Planned Parenthood board member to the Supreme Court). America is told that Palin believes in a culture of life "from cradle to grave." This is poor, even harmful, communication and shows a lack of political savvy. On the economic spectrum from freedom (capitalism) through socialism, to communism, Palin commits an economic faux pas by using a term that describes a socialist government30 which gives entitlements including health care, "from cradle to grave." Regarding abortion, using the phrase "cradle to grave" seems to betray a pretend ownership of pro-life values.
  • Uses Pro-choice Terminology: Palin uses pro-choice terminology referring to the abortifacient Morning After Pill as "contraception." Also called Plan B, the Morning After Pill is a chemical weapon of mass destruction that targets only children. The abortion industry re-defined "conception" to mean implantation to make it easier to sell chemicals to kill a child in the womb. The abortion and pharmaceutical industries lie to a woman by calling the drug a contraceptive, implying that it only prevents conception. Such drugs though are abortifacients, designed to cause a miscarriage of the baby boy or girl. See also WorldNetDaily.com, Jill Stanek's Personhood initiatives proliferate, which efforts "force the other side to admit" that the IUD and other abortifacients "kill currently unclassified humans," something, "the other side has gone to great lengths to hide..."
  • Supports some Tax-Funded Abortion: Sarah Palin will pay to kill some children with tax dollars. The Anchorage Daily News asked her, "do you support or oppose the use of public funds for abortion?"31 Sarah should have answered correctly that it is always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent child, therefore, she should have unequivocally opposed forcing tax payers to kill some "unwanted" children. Instead Palin crafted, in ten written words,"I oppose the use of public funds for elective abortions."32 33By this Palin goes further than even the many "pro-choice" people who think the government should never pay for abortion, by indicating that some babies should not be protected by law but instead killed with tax dollars.
  • Thinks some Kids must be Killed: Palin promotes the egregious error that some abortions are medically necessary when she refers to non-elective child killing by writing, "I oppose the use of public funds for elective abortions."34 Abortion is always wrong because it's a baby; it's never right to intentionally kill a baby. Laws for "the life of the mother" are not meant to save the mother but to kill the baby. No doctor needed a law to try to save the mother and the child, regardless if either patient might die. Rape, incest, and life "exceptions" opened the floodgates of abortion and are only designed to gain support for child killing. The doctor's goal should never be to kill the mother to save the baby, nor to kill the child to save the mother. Early, as in an ectopic pregnancy, the baby tragically dies as we save the mom; in late-term emergencies, medical protocol is to save the mother by performing a caesarean section but never stopping midway to intentionally kill the baby, which is the crime that all life "exceptions" permit. The goal must always be, if possible, to save both, and Palin is wrong to imply that the law could ever justly authorize the intentional killing of any child.
  • Whitewashed Pro-choice Politician: Palin's pro-life public image enabled her to whitewash pro-choice John McCain.35 A few years before his presidential candidacy, as Vision Forum has reminded Christians, National RTL titled their revealing report, "John McCain Threatens the Pro-Life Cause." In a reverse contribution, the opposite of a million donations from special interests to political parties, the Republican National Committee has actually donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to National RTL. With their ultimate loyalty to a political party,36 NRTL was forced to report that McCain, "Voted consistently against federal funding of abortion."37 But NRTL arrived at this false claim by ignoring Palin's running mate's votes38 that fund surgical abortion, fund chemical abortion, fund killing the tiniest children for research, and that give hundreds of millions to Planned Parenthood.
  • Allowed Herself to be Used to Promote Embryonic Research: As soon as she became a vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin was used to promote the tax-funded embryonic stem cell research39 that McCain promotes,40 which is the fatal dissecting and harvesting of the bodies of the tiniest boys and girls for grisly research.41
  • Creation Should Not be State Policy: Palin undermines society's understanding of the God-given right to life by advocating that God's hand in creation, "should not be part of state policy or a local curriculum..."42 But then, where do rights come from? Thus Palin would keep from children the fundamental truth that even a deist like Thomas Jefferson43 acknowledged in our Declaration of Independence that people, "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights [and] that among these are Life..."44 When Sarah further states that evolution, "should be taught as an accepted principle," she confuses young Americans who intuitively realize that a fish can eat another fish without moral consequence45 but then wonder about the fundamental difference between mankind and animals, which of course is that men are made in the image of the triune God.46
  • Respects Opinions to Kill Children: Palin says she personally opposes abortion for a rape victim but she respects "people's opinion on this,"47 that is, on killing a child, and apparently even for aborting someone for the crime of the child's father, in violation of Deuteronomy 24:16, "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers" (see also Ezek. 18:20). Does Palin respect the views of racists too, or only of those who kill children? "There is a time for politics and a time for leadership."48 Which time is it now Sarah?
  • States can Kill Children in Palin's America: As though abortion were a zoning issue, Sarah Palin says that states have the right 49 to decide whether to permit the intentional killing of unborn children. She thereby effectively rejects that a fetus is a person, and she rejects the "due process" clause in the 5th amendment50 and the "equal protection" of the 14th amendment. These amendments obligate our federal and state governments to not permit the intentional violation of the right to life of any innocent persons, including, of course, Blacks, Jews, and children. By her erroneous application of states' rights, which suffices only to pass the buck, Palin would require the federal government to violate the U.S. Constitution and tolerate child killing in various states, rejecting the 5th Amendment and the 14th which states in part: "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Summary:

Sarah Palin claims to be personally pro-life but her words and actions prove that she is officially pro-choice and stands against the God-given right to life of the unborn. Even if Roe v Wade were reversed, Palin says she would still leave the decision to kill children to others. That's not leadership. Like the liberation of Germany in 1945, the road to protecting America's children might pass through fields of sacrifice. Whether or not she would see this as possibly costing her entire political future, ProlifeProfiles hopes that Mrs. Palin will take a new stand and make a true commitment to protect unborn children. (Tier 1 has a spot reserved for her.)

Footnotes:
  1. 1. 2008 convention speech transcript
  2. 2. CBS Evening News "Palin and McCain Interview" transcript
  3. 3. The Alaska Standard, Dan Fagan: pro-life in her personal life, not in her political life
  4. 4. Anchorage Daily News, "Palin bucks pressure in Supreme Court appointment"
  5. 5. The Alaska Standard, "Palin appoints former Planned Parenthood board member"
  6. 6. Hot Air, Ed Morrissey, "Heartache: Palin appoints former Planned Parenthood board member"
  7. 7. GOP12.com, Conservatives rally to Palin's defense on pro-abortion pick but FRC's Tony Perkins condemns the exact same behavior in Missouri
  8. 8. Anchorage Daily News report
  9. 9. Mother Jones: SarahPAC Scrubs Site
  10. 10. Anchorage Daily News, March 4, 2009 article
  11. 11. Facebook statement
  12. 12. ProlifeProfiles.com/Bush#BushCampaignPromise
  13. 13. Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, 2009, pp. 215-216
  14. 14. Ibid. pp. 349-350
  15. 15. Mother Jones magazine SarahPAC Scrubs Site
  16. 16. ARTL three-fold strategy (see Tactics, #2)
  17. 17. NewsBank.com article (subscription service)
  18. 18. OnTheIssues.org article
  19. 19. Alaska state constitution
  20. 20. Wikipedia "Alaska Ballot Measure 2"
  21. 21. WorldNetDaily article
  22. 22. CNN election report
  23. 23. YouTube clip
  24. 24. ABC News article
  25. 25. AP photo article
  26. 26. Personhood.net article
  27. 27. PersonhoodUSA.com map of states
  28. 28. American Life League "Federal Human Personhood Amendment"
  29. 29. LifeNews.com article
  30. 30. NewsWithViews.com article
  31. 31. OnTheIssues.org article
  32. 32. NewsBank.com (May require subscription)
  33. 33. OnTheIssues.org article
  34. 34. NewsBank.com (May require subscription)
  35. 35. ProlifeProfiles John McCain
  36. 36. ProlifeProfiles Nat'l RTL
  37. 37. NRL PAC article
  38. 38. ProlifeProfiles John McCain
  39. 39. The Washington Post article
  40. 40. McCain.Senate.gov press release
  41. 41. ReligiousTolerance.org article
  42. 42. PoliticusUSA.com article
  43. 43. KGOV.com article
  44. 44. The Declaration of Independence
  45. 45. USA Today Republican Party quote
  46. 46. Genesis 1:26
  47. 47. CBS Evening News "Palin and McCain Interview"transcript
  48. 48. Palin's 2008 convention speech
  49. 49. ProlifeProfiles Ron Paul
  50. 50. U.S. Constitution 5th Amendment