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DomKen -> RE: Political: Oh, dem skeletons be rattlin' in the closet!! (9/2/2008 4:22:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: hizgeorgiapeach
While I can understand some of the issues you have with Palin's decision making process while in labor with her son, I would like to point out a couple of things that - to me at least - are significant.
Her son's Trisomy syndrome was not caused by her decision making process. It is a genetic defect, one often present in children born to women in their late 30s and older. NOTHING she did or didn't do during labor would have - or Could have - changed the fact that he was born with a trisomy. Nothing done during the entire length of the pregnancy could have changed that, short of divine intervention, if you happen to believe in such things. The only thing that Might have prevented the trisomy would be significant luck combined with the pregnancy being when she was significantly Younger. The older a woman becomes, the higher the risk of Trisomy problems - specifically of Trisomy 21, or Downs' Syndrome - showing up in the resulting child. If her son has a Trisomy other than 21, it's more likely a recessive genetic trait hidden in both families that could have shown up at any time in any pregnancy. The specific chromosone which was trippled determines the specific type of disabilities caused by a trisomy, and they are as varied as the combination of chromosones and at what point during the pregnancy the faulty split occured. Some trisomies are simply lethal in-utero, and therefore are pretty much never seen (and unnamed except by the number of the chromosone suspected to be the culprit). Others are not directly lethal, and can cause problems that range from mild disfunction to very specific varieties of dwarfism to the mongoloidism seen in Downs'.
I guess I wasn't clear. The Trisomy was detected well in advance. What I'm saying was a 44 year old about to prematurely deliver such a child made a series of decisions that are frankly baffling to me. If she wanted the infant to survive wht risk the flight to Dallas much less the return flight? Pressurized airline cabins are at much lower air pressure than we normally experience and low air pressure is a well documented cause of women going into labor, major blizzards and hurricanes often cause a spike in deliveries. Then while in Dallas she has a symptom that seems to indicate that labor is imminent so rather than getting to a major Dallas hospital where plenty of top doctors would have been availabel to assist the Governor with the, seemingly, high risk delivery.
To be clear I'm not blaming the Trisomy on her actions. I'm saying that it would be a contributing factor, for me at least, to proceed with utmost caution in regards to that pregnancy.
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