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Speaking of hot teenagers and asshole parents and vows that you may come to
regret…
The 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee,
is pregnant. The news was released by the McCain campaign during a busy news
week—a major hurricane, the Republican National Convention, Dick Cheney getting
us into a war with Russia—so it may not have received the coverage it deserved.
So allow me to bring you up to date, gentle readers…
Seventeen-year-old Bristol Palin got her ass knocked up five or so months ago
by 18-year-old Levi Johnston. Among the hobbies listed on Levi’s since-yanked
MySpace page—“fishing, shoot some shit, and just fuckin’ chillin’”—was this
revealing tidbit: “I don’t want kids.” But Bristol, says her mom, “made the
decision on her own to keep the baby,” and is now engaged to Levi “Shootin’
Shit” Johnston.
As the adoptive parent of a child born to a pair of unwed teenagers, I’m
certainly not in favor of abortion in all circumstances. But I believe that it’s
a choice teenagers should be able to make for themselves—with input from their
families whenever possible—and, so it seems, does the GOP’s VP nominee. Sarah
Palin is pleased that her daughter made the decision—on her own—to keep the
baby.
But Sarah Palin doesn’t believe that other girls should be able to make their
own decisions. Sarah Palin believes abortion should be illegal in almost every
instance—including rape and incest. So Bristol Palin is being celebrated for
making a choice that Sarah Palin would like to take away from all other American
women. Apparently, today’s GOP believes that choice is a special right reserved
for the wayward daughters of Republican elected officials.
Oh, and Sarah Palin also believes that birth control shouldn’t be made
available to teenagers, she opposes medically accurate sex education, and she
backs abstinence-until-marriage sex “education.”
Sigh.
The GOP has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into abstinence
“education” programs during the Bush years. I believe this enormous investment
of public funds begs the obvious question: Is our children abstaining? Sarah Palin’s aren’t. Despite this massive outlay on the part of the
American taxpayer and the example set by her Christian parents, Bristol
Palin became sexually active while still in high school. Excuse me, but if
abstinence education can’t keep the daughter of the evangelical governor of
Alaska off the cock, what hope is there for the daughters—and some of the
sons—of average Americans?
I’m a cad for even writing this, of course, because shortly before Bristol
and Levi were paraded before cheering throngs at the Republican National
Convention, the Palins asked the media to respect their daughter’s privacy.
Another special right: When it comes to respecting your family’s
privacy, Palin and the GOP see no need. They want to micromanage the most
intimate aspects of your private life. And if their own kids fail to
live up to the standards that Palin and the GOP seek to impose on your family, well, that’s a private matter between the Palins, their daughter, their
God, and the thousands of screaming imbeciles in elephant hats waving
McCain/Palin signs on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
