This new mom voted on the way to the hospital to give birth

This woman made a quick stop at the voting booths before giving birth.

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published 8 November 2016

A Colorado woman cast her ballot Friday while in labor and in transit to the hospital. Sosha Adelstein planned to vote on Election Day, but her baby had other plans.

Still, she was able to stop by the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office to drop off her ballot. "We ran over there and kind of made it just in time," Adelstein said, "because like shortly after that I was like, 'OK, it's time. We got to get to the hospital.'"

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.