Extra‘s Mario Lopez interviewed the former Alaska half-term governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and she said that she believed Hillary Clinton becoming a grandmother might “open her eyes” on the issue of abortion. You betcha!
“I think that it will kind of broaden her world view. You know, I think anyone who’s a grandparent begins looking at — even further down the road, you know? We start thinking about things like $17 trillion debt that our nation is under. We’re going to hand that to our grandkids?
“Also, her daughter Chelsea is pregnant with the baby — it’s a real baby, not just some disposable something.
“Now, I know that’s going to be controversial, but those who are, perhaps, in the position now to be a parent or a grandparent, they realize about the sanctity of life. How innocent, precious it is,” she said.
“And of all places, it should be in the womb that these babies are protected — so maybe even on a social issue like that, she’ll open her eyes.”
Lopez then asked her about her comments at the National Rifle Association’s annual where she said “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
Lopez asked, “The fact that they’re trying to take this comment and relate it to a sacrament, what are your thoughts on that?”
“Yeah, well, someone needs to get to Webster’s Dictionary and look up what it means ‘to baptize,’” Palin replied.
“That means ‘to submerge.’ It means ‘to dunk,’” she said, denying any connection between the word and the sacrament.
“As for the sacredness of the term ‘baptism,’ I have such great respect for it — as a born-again Christian, I was baptized in the water, in the freezing cold water, at a lake just ten miles up the road.”
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Kimberley A. Johnson (BIO) is the author of The Virgin Diaries and an activist for women’s rights. Like her on Facebook, Twitter or follow her on FB HERE. |
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