SARAH PALIN'S PREGNANT DAUGHTER: THOUGHTS ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Submitted by HalWLanse on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 5:11pm.

Senator Obama is taking the high road, refusing to use the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter as political fodder. If he did so, it would be a “no win” situation, making Obama look like he’s attacking an innocent girl. The Senator’s decision is admirable; but still there is a political dimension to this pregnancy and someone’s got to talk about it. So here goes.

Governor Palin is an ultra-conservative and such people don’t just oppose abortion. They oppose birth control of any kind including the form of birth control known as information. Ultra-conservatives disapprove of any sex education that includes references to condoms, the pill or any other kind of birth control. Sex, they believe, is for reproduction only and only when one is married to a person of the opposite sex. Ultra-conservatives will fight funding for any program that focuses on anything but abstinence.

So it’s likely that Governor Palin’s daughter never received sex education beyond “just say no.” Is it a surprise that she got pregnant? Palin told the world: “Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned.” With proper counseling, Bristol wouldn’t have had to grow up quite so fast and become enmeshed in a marriage that she might bitterly regret some years hence.

And what of HIV? If my theory is correct and Bristol received no information regarding protection, an unplanned pregnancy could have been the least of her worries. By denying her information, Bristol’s “loving” parents may well have condemned her to death. Is this God’s will? I submit for your consideration the Sixth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.”

Denying one’s child information that might prevent her early demise is moral, if not legal murder. If the Palins did indeed take an “abstinence only” approach, then they have broken God’s law. If Governor Palin supports a political agenda that forces all government programs to follow the same “abstinence only” plan, then many “beautiful daughters,” not to mention handsome sons, may lose their lives for lack of information.

Do we want our children to die before their time? If the answer is “no” then Bristol Palin’s pregnancy becomes an issue that is gravely political.

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RE: IS SARAH PALIN A SINNER?

Submitted by on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 5:32pm.

I am not a religious person but I do agree with your view. Whether you think Palin is a sinner or not the fact is she did not provide her daughter with the proper guidance so that she could make an educated decision during an event that has obviously changed her life forever. Are we to believe that Sarah Palin's policies are what is truly best for this country? Is it acceptable to establish such policies that will increase the rate of teenage pregnancies? Shame on the Palins for such a claim. If remember correctly, parents have to sign a waiver in order for their children to receive sexual education in school. If someone doesn't want their kids in the class during such a lecture they shouldn't sign the waiver. However, our children shouldn't pay the price because of their religious beliefs. That's where I stand.

What makes any of you

Submitted by on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 9:09pm.

What makes any of you qualified to say anything about what was said to Bristol as far as sex education? If you are such GOD fearing people in the first place, have you heard anything about throwing the first stone? I don't see where it's any of your business in the first place. Don't you think a 17 year old girl has a mind of her own and has the ability to talk to her friends about birth control and such?
I guess since you are such perfect "christians" maybe you should run for office and let the country dig into your business,OK? One more thing show me a single person on the face of the earth that is not a sinner in some way or another.

I'll tell you what does.

Submitted by on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 1:40pm.

We're the same people who had to listen to Bill O'Reilly and the rest of Right Wing Shock Troops tell us what a horrible person Jaime Lynn Spears was because she got pregnant out of wedlock. But now those same shock troops are doing their best to protect poor Bristol Plain. It's disgusting. The entire Plain family should be ashamed of how they set their daughter up for failure as a person.

I wouldn't trust anyone in that family to babysit my kids, much less run the country.

What is wrong with you?

Submitted by on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 7:48am.

How can either of the first 2 commenters sit in judgement against Sarah Palin? First off were either of you there? Have you 1st hand knowledge of what was or wasn't said to Sarah's daughter?

Secondly, the pregnancy of a 17 year old is NOT political. It's a private family matter and none of anyone else's business. The ONLY way it would be political is if she were gotten pregnant by an adult politician, and since that's NOT the case, it isn't!

How dare any of you sit in judgement against this woman. If you don't agree with her stand on something, then don't vote for her. But, don't point fingers and say that because her daughter did something you don't care for that she's a sinner. If she's sinned, then God will judge her for it. That's his job, not yours.

As far as her politics go, have any of you bothered to get the facts? Or, are you just listening to all of the rhetoric that's being pushed by the main stream media? Stop being cattle people. There is no need to regurgitate the garbage being pelted about. Check the facts for yourselves, then make an informed decision.

The Ten Commandments

Submitted by on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 10:50am.

The Seventh Commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery" includes fornication. The Conservative Movement now forsakes the Seventh Commandment? Who gave them that right?

Regardless of what Bristol

Submitted by on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 9:54am.

Regardless of what Bristol Palin was told by her parents--there are thousands of American teens who are only told "just say no" by federally funded abstinence only programs. Such programs fail to protect our children from HIV and other STD's as well as endanger the livelihood of our daughters who, if they become pregnant as teens, are much more likely to face a future of poverty and struggle.

One commenter says that kids can talk to each other--the problem is that when the sex education programs provide no real education, the information kids give each other is false. The misinformation teens where I live believe is simply astounding, from you can't get pregnant if you have sex in a pool to believing pulling out works. The abstinence only programs have fed a rumor mill of devastating proportions. We don't trust kids to educate each other on how to drive--why do we let them educate each other on sex?!?

Sure, kids make mistakes and have sex that perhaps most of us would prefer they did not and feel is harmful to them--but to fail to provide them with information that would save their lives if they do have sex, by giving them the real information to protect themselves from HIV, that's negligent homicide.

Whether or not Sarah Palin committed this error with her children, she supports doing so to the rest of America's children.

Seventeen year olds know whats going on...

Submitted by on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 12:19pm.

I grew up in California in the 60's and we had sex education all thru school starting in the 6th grade. I knew all the "facts". That didn't stop me from getting pregnant too early. Human beings are just that: HUMAN. Millions of people have made this same "mistake". Many make the best of it and others don't. Life goes on. My parents certainly did everything parents could do to prevent such a thing. There is no reason to assume that Sarah Palin did less. She is on record, by the way, as being in favor of contraception. You guys are soooooo off base here. You are fear mongers and haters, more so than any Christian I have ever heard of. You should be ashamed of yourselves.