McCAIN: Calm down, Sarah, have a seat, take it easy
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McCAIN: Calm down, Sarah, have a seat, take it easy.
SARAH: [Sitting down] \' m still in a state of shock. My heart is
beating so fast. | have terminal dry mouth. This is awful.
McCAIN: Let’ s review the situation. Your seventeen-year-old
daughter is pregnant. And your nineteen-year-old son is the father. It was
consensual sex. Nevertheless, that’ s statutory rape. | think we have only
two options. One, she gets an abortion.
SARAH: I’ m sorry, that’ s off the table. | mean it’ s out of the
question.
McCAIN: Look, | realize that you’ re against abortion based on your
religious principles, even in the case of rape or incest. And in this case it’ s
both. But you’ re not against abortion if the life of the mother is
endangered. That could be our exit strategy. There’ s a blind doctor in
Washington who performs the safest possible abortion, and he wouldn’ t
even know who the patient is.
SARAH: Absolutely not. Here’ s what | thought about on the plane.
Of course, we will never identify Track as the father--I' m so angry | found
myself hoping that he would get killed in Iraq, and that would be
perceived as such a heartbreaking patriotic sacrifice--| wanted to offer a
bounty for the delivery of Track's severed left calf with the Jesus tattoo,
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