Palin's daughter...?

Question

Why is everybody saying "Give them privacy and leave them out of it." I mean, sure, I can kind of understand that. But don't run for President/Vice President if you don't want your family in the public eye. It's going to happen, they should know that. It's like how celebrities whine about paparazzi. Well, we didn't push you into the spotlight did we? You should have known the consequences to that.

Anyways, shouldn't Palin's daughter's pregnancy show that ABSTINENCE ONLY education in schools will NEVER work? Teenagers are going to have s*x, weather or not the government condones it. If McCain and Palin are so pro-life, wouldn't it make the most sense to allow things like emergency contraception and federal funding for birth control? So the person.. I don't know.. doesn't get pregnant in the first place? It's like saying to a bunch of horny, rebellious teenagers, "You can't have s*x. And if you do, you can't have any birth control (unless you pay for it yourself, of course) to prevent a baby. And if you're not emotionally or financially prepared for a child, you're either going to have to send it off to foster care or feed off of tax payers money to care for your kid. Sound good?"

Can somebody please explain the logic to me?

Answer 1

I did not drag them out to show off what an ideal American Family they were.

Anyway, nobody really cares about Bristol, her drug use, her hockey star baby daddy or any of that.

Teen pregnancies are common.

What everybody is ragging about is this Saint Sarah Palin who wants to tell everybody else about how to live their lives while her own family is such a huge mess.

Answer 2

i'm definitely pro-life, but i agree a lot more needs to be done in this country to prevent teenage pregnancy from occurring in the first place.  obviously not enough is being done today.  

Answer 3

No, it is not true that "Palin's daughter's pregnancy show that ABSTINENCE ONLY education in schools will NEVER work?"

One example never proves anything.

Answer 4

Some republicans (not myself) oppose contraception of certain types and certainly abortion since they believe it to be a sin and the murder of a child. Logic of whether or not teens will have s*x has no bearing.  

Answer 5

You people are attacking Bristol

Last I checked she is not running for office

How about you talk about the issues.

Oh wait, Obama supporters do not know what the issues are.

Answer 6

CONTRACEPTION PEOPLE...

Honestly the OP makes a good point, if we teach kids to use contraception properly this can be avoided.  

Answer 7

Every teen has s*x... The only point to abstinence is to not encourage the behavior... If you want to give your children birth control, knock yourself out, but never encourage it to a child of mine.  Low dose birth control pills are known in countless medical studies to lower growth hormone profiles and prematurely age the individual....

Answer 8

I cant understand that logic either. I get your point though and agree with it

Answer 9

The Palins are well aware about publicity. Its where the focus of the publicity is right now that's gotten out of hand. Sarah Palin is the candidate for V.P. not her daughter nor her husband. No matter what our opinions are the fact remains that s*x will happen even to those we lease expect it to happen to. Who's to decide if someone is a rebellious person.  Here is one sure thing that will not happen because Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant. The world will not colapse. Some people are stronger than others when faced with temptation.

Gossip buys newspapers and magazines. Watch when the Inquiry comes out. TV stations want to be rated #1 so the more gossip the merrier. And face it, many of the TV news reporters don't care for McClain anyhow so they keep pushing the words "she's pregnant."

As for birth control I don't think its any of our business for us to decide who should be using it.

Now, lets get our focus back onto the campaign trail and let the parents take care of their personal affairs with their daughter.

Too much stale news allows irritation to build.

I just look at it this way, I don't want for others to bad mouth my children and I would defend them till the the rockets red glare in my eyes. Sound good?