Sarah Palin is justly seen as a heroine in the pro-life community, someone who not only says the right things but in her own life has done them twice over. Not only did she give birth to and raise her Down syndrome baby, she did not pressure her unwed teenage daughter to do what many would consider the sensible thing — ending the life of her unborn baby, before it could further encumber her own life.

Thus, pro-lifers could have done worse than listen to Sarah when she said Condi Rice would have been a “wonderful” person to round out the Republican ticket when Mitt Romney faces Obama this fall. Palin did not say she agreed with Rice, who describes herself as a “mild” pro-choicer, or that she wanted her to make social policy, but that she thought that as vice president (or even as president, should that ever happen), Rice would do the right-to-life movement no harm.