Will Sarah Palin Argue ‘Immaculate Conception’ Concerning Trig?

The question over who is the biological mother for Trig Palin is one that has been argued over and over, and seems to have a need for an answer given the scenario that Sarah Palin tells over  how the child was born.  (I think Levi Johnston knows the answers, and at some point will tell.)  If you listen to Palin’s version of Trig’s birth it stretches the believability factor to such an extent that her story becomes cheap theatre.  Andrew Sullivan who has raised numberous questions about Trig’s real mother, and has written a fair amount concerning this matter, has another column that adds still more layers of intrigue.  Intrigue it should be noted that starts from Palin’s own words from her book.  If we are to believe all of this that Palin offers will she think we are then so gullible that she can add ‘immaculate conception’ to the story of Trig’s birth?  You snicker now…………….

Take one story that every mother will relate to: the drama of her delivery of her fifth child, Trig. She tells us that at eight months pregnant with a child she knew had Down’s syndrome and would need special care at birth, she got on a plane from Alaska to Dallas, Texas, to attend an energy conference. Most airlines won’t allow this but Alaska Airlines did. Palin then tells us that at 4am on her first night in Dallas, “a strange sensation low in my belly woke me and I sat up straight in bed”. In an interview she gave with the Anchorage Daily News just after Trig’s birth, she confirmed that she had amniotic fluid leaking at that point.

So she was a mother eight months pregnant with a special-needs child thousands of miles from home. She wakes up in the middle of the night with contractions and amniotic leakage and she tells her husband she doesn’t want to call her doctor because it would wake her up at 1am. And she is the sitting governor of a state and her doctor is a close personal friend. Not only that, but she gives the speech as planned in the afternoon, during which she makes a rather good joke. She then tells us what happens next: “Big laughs. More contractions.”

After the speech, does she then go to a local hospital to get checked out? Nah. She gets on two separate aeroplanes all the way back to Alaska, with a stopover in Seattle, because she is determined to have the child in her home town and she just knows that the contractions and amniotic leakage are not signs of imminent delivery. She has had four previous kids so she has experience. “I still had plenty of time … It was a calm, relatively restful flight home,” she explains of the next 15 hours.

You might imagine that an airline would have some qualms about letting a woman in some sort of labour at eight months, and pregnant with a Down’s syndrome child, get on a long transcontinental flight. What if the baby were born in mid-flight? The plane would have to be diverted. What if something happened to the baby? The airline could be liable. Palin never told the flight attendants. Couldn’t they tell, one might innocently ask. In the Anchorage Daily News story about the birth, Alaska Airlines said: “The stage of her pregnancy was not apparent by observation. She did not show any signs of distress.” Palin makes Xena, the warrior princess, seem fragile.

Question remains, who is the biological mother of Trig Palin?  Or are we left to conclude that Sarah Palin was hoping for a result that would not force the family to deal with a special needs child?  When one looks at the story she tells it seems clear that one or the other has to be answered honestly.