Labor DayNews: Palin's 17-year-old Daughter Pregnant...Discuss

What part of 'discuss' implies anything? But since you asked, let's throw it down:

After initially praising the Senator McCain for his bold choice, I can only conclude that this is a political nightmare. I don't care what anyone says about the Palins' personal issues, this is really some sort of divine intervention to demonstrate the outcome of a failed public health policy.

The Bush administration has made it a top priority to offer absitinence-only pregnancy prevention not just as an implied platform of the right--but as a requirement for US-provided global health funding. Sarah Palin clearly embraces this philosophy. Thus, Sarah Palin in the White House DOES mean four more years of George W. Bush. 

For those who would say this is just creationism, and thus, that she was fated to this pregnancy as God's will I say this: God allowed birth control to be created as well. Why is that never part of the moral conversation about personal responsibility from the right?

Still, if you insist that we set aside a clearly needed assessment of the Governor's parenting skills, so be it. (Though it seems to me a no brainer that a VEEP candidate's parenting skills be vetted just as much their ability to manage--say--the U.S. military.} Regardless, please do NOT overlook the sad irony that our next possible vice president could mean even more unplanned pregnancies throughout the entire world, and further economic and educational declines for our next generation of young women.  

And I have to ask: WHAT part of Ronald Reagan's vision of the Republican party sought for young women to be uneducated, underemployed, and trapped in a marriages of convenience? How is it possible that the family values of this millennium have become more important that the good old 1980snotion of capitalism? How is it possible Hillary Clinton is  more of a Republican than John McCain by suggesting that our economy needs women be paid what they are worth in order to thrive? The Gipper has to be rolling in his grave!

Even more twisted is how the RNC is trying to frame the Democrats and the mainstream media as sexist for questioning whether or not Sarah Palin's infant son is getting all the attention an infant deserves from his mother.  And doing so all while painting the GOP as the real party of women. True, the Democrats has taken women for granted to the extreme and the media has eroded the power of women, and quashed the confidence of any young girl at every opportunity.

Yet Republicans have voted against family medical leave, shot down every opportunity for improved minimum wage, stood complacement as women trying to serve in the military are unmercifully sexually harassed, promoted gun laws that put both women and children continually in harms way, and have chosen to extort women world wide to risk sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies and even death, in exchange for US-funded  healthcare. 

So do NOT blame observers like me for violating this young girl's privacy. Instead: Let's both thank--and shame--Sarah Palin and Senator McCain for making Bristol Palin the poster-child of failed abstinence education. And shame on the Republican party for trying to turn feminists into chauvinists for thinking a infant deserves all love and attention its mother can afford.

Palin is a creationist, in case her no-rape/incest anti-choice stance hasn't scared you enough.

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I think sex education is essential too. I went to Catholic school for 4 years and we did not discuss this topic at all. I do recall a session in the basement of the convent area where were showed a film from the 70's about having your period. The nun's were so behind the times they were showing us how to use pads with straps (old school). Yikes!!

Thankfully I switched to a public high school and received the basics of sex ed and learned all about tampons and condoms. Thank GOD!

I still think abstinence is the only fail safe way to avoid unwanted pregnancy and STD's but let's face it, people have sex and education is superior to ignorance!

I feel sorry for Palin's daughter. Can you imagine being pregnant at 17 AND having the ENTIRE country discussing it? She's in for a tough road and I wish her the best.

I will say, however, that I oppose Palin's stance on opposing sex-education ( http://eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-... ).

I'm not saying that the two are related.

But if we want to keep people from being in the position of having to make a choice about unwanted pregnancy, sex education is essential to empower young women to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

You can't tell a teenager "Don't do that thing that will make you pregnant!" and then when they ask "What thing?", tell them, "I'm not going to discuss it.  Just don't do it!"  Unless you plan on enforcing that they are never alone with the opposite sex, anywhere, anytime.

Sex-education is the best birth control available to us.

Looks like I'm not the only one who feels that Bristol's pregnancy is a non-issue.

In his media avail, Obama just responded to reporters' questions about the Bristol Palin story. Noting that his mother had him when she was 18 years old, Obama said families are "off limits" in campaigns. He was very impassioned.

"I've heard some of the news. I've said before
I think families are off limits, children limits. It has no relevance,"
Obama said. "I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of
stories. My mom had me when she was 18. And how families deal with
issues of children shouldn't be part of our politics.

Regarding to the accusation from the McCain camp that rumors of Bristol Palin were being spread by liberal
bloggers, some with connections to the Obama campaign, the Illinois
senator replied: "I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence
at all that any of this involved us. I hope I'm as clear as we can be.
We don't go after people's families. Our people were not involved in
any way. And if I thought anyone in my campaign was, they'd be fired."

I agree, Palin's daughter's pregnancy is a non-issue.

And, coming from someone who doesn't support the McCain/Palin ticket, I commend you for posting this comment.

Kudos Mitegirl

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I won't be voting for McCain/Palin, but what does this have to do with anything?

Seriously?

This is a non-issue.  Honestly.

What are you implying the her daughter's pregnancy out-of-wedlock is supposed to imply about Palin?

Ridiculous.