This shouldn't be about Bristol Palin but a woman's right to choose

[inthebrain]

Not that I really see a lot of people bashing the kid but there is a lot here to the abortion issue and Palin's stance on it. Things like this can either devolve into the gutter or start a really good policey debate.

What the Palin's choose to do with the baby is the choice that right for them. I'm cool with it. At least they have a right to choose despite their stance on abortion. And that's what's really the issue.

Others clearly don't have the same support systems not to mention family that will pick up the slack. Are we supposed to see Bristol as the same as some poor girl living in the gutter that was raped?

Sarah sees fit to remove that choice for her even in that instance. At the end of the day the Palins got to decide what was right for them. They are allowed the same right to choose as anyone else. The person who was raped by her father, stranger or neighbor is no less than they are. The Palins are not better than them either.

Oh, and in the case of rape and incest Sarah does support the "Rapist Bill of rights" where the rapist gets to choose the mother of his child. The mother on the other hand is fucked.

I commend Bristol in that she at least was allowed to choose the father of her child.

[peace13]

1. This is about a mother / father that placed a career over a daughter and family.

That is what is about. Did the Governor use good judgment in accepting a job that will put her daughter out there like this? You tell me.

[xchrom]

2. a woman can choose any job she wants -- that's not the point.

the point and the only point is the whole 'family values' or 'values' view point that repukes
have bee trying to force on a multitude of issues from womens right to choose, gay rights, 'welfare queens',{1970s anyone?} etc.

sara palin is the direct inheritor of EVERY ONE one of those attack points.

[inthebrain]

3. No it's not