Mat-Su Hospital to no longer to announce baby births in the newspaper. Does this have anything to do with Sarah Palin and babygate?

In a blow to newspaper tradition, and perhaps a signal of the death of small-town innocence, an Alaska hospital has stopped the longtime practice of announcing births out of fear it could lead to the abduction of an infant.

Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, the hospital outside Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, listed newborns with the local newspaper if parents signed a consent form. The practice stopped Jan. 1.

What? Why would the hospital no longer announce births to prevent a crime THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN ALASKA? And why would little Mat-Su Hospital make such a decision when NO OTHER HOSPITAL IN ALASKA HAS DONE SO.

Something does not smell right here.

Could this have something to do with the questions surrounding the birth of Trig Palin and the fact there was never a birth announcement on the Mat-Su website about it? I have heard that the Mat-Su Hospital has been deluged with requests for information about little Trig's strange birth.

I have also heard that there is a very persistent group constantly calling Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, the doctor who supposedly helped bring little Trig into the world, and demanding that she provide evidence that Sarah is Trig's birth mother. So far there has never been any concrete evidence provided that puts the birth conspiracy to rest.

So we had all been waiting patiently for Bristol to give birth to the baby that the McCain campaign announced she was carrying back in September. The idea was that if she had the baby on December 13th, like it was originally announced we would all have to reevaluate whether she could in fact have given birth to both Trig Palin in April and then another child in early December.

However the birth of Tripp Palin (Who it was reported did not actually enter the world until December 27th) did nothing to put the questions to rest. For one thing the only evidence we have of his birth is an announcement in People magazine. And then a statement made by Sarah Palin herself.

And just like Trig, Tripp's birth announcement has never been published. And that makes absolutely no sense to any of us. Especially since that would have given Sarah Palin ammunition to use to put the "babygate" story behind her.

So it seems much more likely that the Mat-Su Hospital is making this decision to keep people from badgering them about the Palin family birth announcements, then from fear of an abduction.

If that were the reason, doesn't it seem MUCH more likely that the bigger hospitals in Anchorage, like Providence and Alaska Regional, would be the first hospitals to adopt such a policy? Of course it does.

Like I said, something definitely stinks here.