Palin Highlights Life

Victory could not have been sweeter for pro-family voters who gathered to support the Center for Arizona Policy’s fundraiser recently.  (Watch CAP’s new video - featuring several Barto comments). 

The evening event featured Governor Sarah Palin, who drew a crowd of 1600.  Palin’s inspiring story served to magnify one of the many victories realized this session for Arizona families and supporters of  The Center for Arizona Policy when Governor Jan Brewer, who attended the event,  signed into law one of the most significant pro-life bills of the session – SB 1305.

The new law ensures your tax dollars don’t pay for abortions in Arizona and opts the State of Arizona out of the National Health Care Abortion Mandate.  See photos of the live bill signing here.

Palin’s speech was inspiring throughout, but as she related her personal story and the choices made during their later-in-life pregnancy a  few years ago – she was dynamic.

The first woman Governor of Alaska pregnant?  That isn’t how it’s supposed to work!  Then, finding out your unborn child has Down’s syndrome and your unmarried daughter is pregnant at the same time.  That’s a lot for any family to handle, much less when you’re the Governor of a state and in the political spotlight.  

The choices made to welcome and cherish life, lessons learned and the blessings she and Todd realized came through difficult and unexpected circumstances like these.  Everyday Arizonans identify with challenges like this.

Arizonans care how their leaders deal with life.  They also care whether their taxes pay for other peoples’ abortions.  More than 40 State Legislators surrounding Governor Brewer at the podium as she signed SB 1305 into law – is proof positive.