Again, Palin models how women can have both brains and wombs, careers and children, including disabled children. And more power to her. However, most women are not in the privileged position of a governor or vice presidential candidate, who no doubt can hire assistants, afford to have her spouse take time off his job or take time off her job for that matter when needed, and to access the very best, most comprehensive health care and social services. Palin identifies herself as a prolife feminist and a member of Feminists for Life. FFL long ago was an original sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act--I was there and part of that effort. The FMLA was/is a start but so many Americans cannot afford to take even a few days out of the three months *unpaid* leave that it guarantees. Will Palin support turning that unpaid leave into paid? Will she support paid maternity and paternity leave? Will she endorse the Healthy Families Act so that US workers can take sick days? Will she support and expand free early intervention services for children with developmental and other disabilities whose families cannot afford those hugely expensive but vital services? Will she reform--in the sense of improving and making more humane, not doing away with or tossing them to the private market--social security programs for disabled children and workers, so that applicants and their families are dealt prompt, just decisions instead of being all treated as con artists and being strung along for years before they get the funds they are medically and ethically entitled to? Will she support raising the average SSI payment above the $600-some dollars a month it is now--not enough in many, many places to even pay the rent on a studio apartment? Will she support and expand programs like SCHIP and Medicaid so that all uninsured children, born and unborn, and their families are completely covered? What about WIC, so that all children and mothers can get proper nutrition in this time of rising food prices? Will she support equal pay for women? A living wage for all? More government grants for students so they won't have to spend 30 years straggling along to pay off student loans--or, worse, giving up on the hope of college at all? She is married to a person of Inuit descent. Will she address the economic and health disparities that afflict and even kill people of color in this nation? And does she keep in mind how the lack of comprehensive family-friendly policies, including pro-disabled person and pro people of color policies, in this country, causes so many women to have abortion, because their economic and employment situations make pregnancy appear an unbearable nightmare--and most understandably so? Is she aware that countries with policies like the abovementioned--and many more--have abortion rates that are a fraction of that in the US? I would really like some indepth answers to these questions from Palin, beyond "hands off the free market, limited government." If she is to be a role model for women, she needs to do everything she can so all other women in this nation can shine, too...women are constrained and afflicated by matters beyond their control, but which can be altered by good public policies