Even if you are firmly committed to the sanctity of life, your faith can be challenged by the news that your unborn child has a genetic abnormality.

Even if you are Sarah Palin.

But as Palin describes in the video excerpts embedded with this post from her April 16 speech to the Vanderburgh County Right to Life banquet in Evansville, Ind., her moments of doubt during which she considered the option of “changing the circumstances” of being pregnant with her unborn child Trig only strengthened her commitment to choosing life.

Trig was born a year ago with Down syndrome.

After learning about Trig’s diagnosis 13 weeks into the pregnancy and overcoming the “moments of doubt” that she admitted she had experienced, Palin said she prayed to be able to love a baby who has Down syndrome.

“The moment he was born, I knew that moment my prayers had been answered,” the Alaska governor said, choking up with emotion. “And my heart overflowed with joy.”

“Trig is a miracle, and he has brought amazing and surprising happiness and great, great perspective,” she said in the next part of her speech. “He has brought amazing, surprising happiness, and he is the best thing that has ever happened to me.”

Earlier in her speech, Palin declared that Trig, who celebrated his first birthday on Saturday, “is our gift from God.”

Said Palin, “He’s proven to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that every innocent life does purpose, and there is no accident. And I am going to choose the Creator’s idea of perfection, over our society’s definition of ‘perfection’ any day.”