The Palin Pregnancy Issue

So Gov. Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant and we’re just suppose to ignore it because children are off limits.  Well, I’m not going to just ignore it and neither should anyone else.  However, it’s not about attacking the daughter it’s about attacking her mother and her politics on this subject.  There’s no way the Governor and her conservative counter parts should get a pass on this.  Of course that’s what they want and they’ll do whatever they can to get you to forget it and that it is an issue.

I don’t care that this girl had sex nor do I care that she’s pregnant.  What I care about is her mother and the Republicans teachings and rules regarding sex education.  These people get on their high horse acting all superior with their abstinence only teaching.  And they handcuff schools by denying them funding if they want to teach preventative sex education.

They sit around denouncing sex before marriage.  They tell you that teaching kids that they should abstain but, that if they chose to have sex they should use protection only encourages them to have sex.  They want you to believe if you just tell them not to have sex they won’t.  And now the daughter of their new poster girl is another teenage pregnancy statistic and they still want abstinence only.

They have a huge glaring example of the fact that abstinence only teaching doesn’t work.  Yet, they just want to continue acting like kids don’t have sex and put them at risk.  They want to put them at risk of getting pregnant and they want to put them at risk of getting a sexually transmitted decease.  That is the issue that needs to be brought to the forefront here and discussed.  And nominee Palin should have to answer for how she can continue to back that teaching and force it on the American people when it clearly doesn’t work and the proof is right next to her.