"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," Palin wrote. "Such a system is downright evil."

How about a mother who, in advanced age, does not terminate a genetically defective retarded fetus?

Not defending socialism here --just pointing out hypocracy.