A pro-life activist suggests one of the reasons liberals despise Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin so passionately may be because she gave birth to her son despite a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

Governor Palin, the mother of a five-month-old baby with Down syndrome, said during her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that she will be a "friend and advocate in the White House" for families of children with special needs. Mark Crutcher, the president of Life Dynamics Incorporated (LDI), notes that in America today, 90 percent of all Down syndrome children are killed in the womb.
 
"I wonder what the people who are doing that -- the parents who are 'choosing' to have their child executed -- what they think when they look at Sarah Palin and her family, when they see the example of that family welcoming a Down syndrome child in and loving that child. I wonder what those people think," Crutcher contends. "I also wonder whether this is where you're seeing some of this hatred and venom that's coming from the godless Left directed at [Palin]. I'm beginning to wonder if Sarah Palin isn't rubbing their noses in their own shame."
 
Crutcher believes that the choice parents make to abort their Down syndrome child has no moral equivalence to the decision Palin made to give birth to her special-needs son.