During a pro-life fundraising banquet in Indiana last night, Sarah Palin got real about abortion. Very real and very personal. Early in her pregnancy with her youngest child, Trig, she considered having an abortion. AOL News reports:

The governor’s 30-minute speech was folksy and full of digressions, but also surprisingly confessional, and she went into some detail about initially panicking after learning, 13 weeks into her pregnancy, that her son would be born with Down syndrome: “That blew me away, it rocked my world… It was a time I asked myself, was I going to walk the walk.
She was on a trip out of state at the time, she said, and “just for a fleeting moment I thought, ‘No one knows me here; no one would ever know.’ … My amniocentesis came back and then I understood why some people would think they could change their circumstances, just take care of it. Todd didn’t even know” the results of the prenatal testing yet, so “no one would know.”
“Plus, I was old,” she continued. “And I thought, ‘Very funny, God. My name’s Sarah, but my husband’s not Abraham, he’s Todd.’” At 44, she said, she had a hard time imagining changing diapers again, not to mention “putting down the BlackBerry and picking up the breast pump.”
Though it was unclear from her remarks how seriously she considered terminating the pregnancy, she assured the audience that “we went through some things a year ago that’s helped me understand a woman and a girl’s temptation to make this go away.” 
Banquet attendees said Palin’s confession made them love her more. She seemed very real, very human to them. As an abortion survivor myself, I think her speech also at least partially debunks a myth I think many pro-abortion people hold: That those of us who are pro-life just have no idea what it’s like to face a difficult pregnancy, one whose future is marred by the possibility of poverty, single- or teen-parenthood, or a child born with special needs. Not true at all and I’m glad Palin had the courage to say so — and also to walk her talk.