Well, that's kind of a bombshell: Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant. Guess that absolutely positively shoots down the weird pregnancy smear. Will this hurt her politically? I'm thinking not. Nor should it. Unplanned teen pregnancy is not unheard of in this country. Any family could face this crisis, even conservative Christian families. I've known some myself. The question is: how do you deal with it?
Bristol Palin is not going to abort her unborn child. She's going to keep the baby and marry the father. Good for her. It shouldn't have happened, but it did happen, and now she's going to do the right thing -- the hard thing. Again: good. Mother and child -- and father -- need support.
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John E., I apologize. I was indeed rude.
Still, I do think you were willfully misunderstanding my point and scoring rhetorical points without adding substance. No one was talking about the unlimited right of women to get pregnant at any time of their own choosing -- we were talking about the choice to bear an already conceived child. I'm fairly sure you were aware of that.
And I really wish everyone would quit with the line that it's the fact of Bristol's pregnancy that's being celebrated and approved. No, the fact of Bristol's pregnancy is a fact, it cannot be changed (even the horrendously evil act of abortion would not turn back the clock to the day before her pregnancy began) and it's the way the girl and her family are handling it that is being celebrated.
I weep for this poor girl and her "choices". Does she have a choice to not marry the young man who is the father? What about the other choice of giving her child to a loving couple to adopt? Not so simple when it comes down to real life is it?
"Unplanned teen pregnancy is not unheard of in this world." That's It? You seem pretty blase about this. Perhaps this is a teaching moment about the shortcomings of "abstinence only" programs.
i love how conservative religionists have created this elaborate illusion that there exists a major difference between "celebrating" someone wrong and *deliberately* doing something known to be wrong. sorry, but it's not there. not every type of action can be honestly called an "accident" and talk is cheap. saying "oh, i didn't meant to" means nothing. this faux distinction is nothing but a ploy to mask the hypocrisy - condemning others' "celebration" of wrongdoing, while pretending their version of celebration is somehow different.
CGW: "Whoever wrote"??? Umm, my name was at the bottom of the large chunk of quote you copied and pasted...talk about not listening (or reading, in this case)
Anyway, that's great that Obama is encouraging welfare moms to marry their baby daddies (or vice-versa), and encouraging teens to dress and behave and interact appropriately, and encouraging people who get pregnant to get support from their families and church communities instead of getting a free government abortion...I must have missed that speech he likely gave while hanging out with all his gangsta rap friends.
Actually, I googled "Obama encourages kids not to have sex" and, funny, no articles came up supporting that statement. Same for "Obama encourages welfare moms to marry."
Although I wasn't originally slamming Obama in my post about the "ghetto culture," I guess he can actually be included now...thanks!
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