Dangerous Trig

The Wall Street Journal has a collection of recent writings against Trig Palin, or more specifically against Sarah Palin for giving birth to Trig. I had suspected that many in the media felt threatened by a mother who would give birth to a son with Downs, but Salon’s Cintra Wilson takes the cake:

Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right.

Giving birth to a child with Downs is a move in the culture war? As the Journal notes, “This is worse than tasteless or even unhinged. It is depraved. It represents an inversion of any reasonable conception of right and wrong, including liberal conceptions.”