Two questions: What conditions create a pregnant teen? And related, Why McCain chose Palin? For her "Life," that's why.
First of all, Palin is an Evangelical wet dream. I smile with mild amusement at all the backslapping in response to her “moral” example of Pro-Life before all of America. Yes, bravo Palin, you had a baby with Downs, something that American women do every day, and have to make tough decisions about. Double bravo, you have a daughter who is going to keep her baby and get married, not because she’s in love, but a result of having an “illegitimate” child. I’ll give this to you, you’re consistent, or are you? If you’re elected, all families and those who care for our youth can look forward to moving closer to a world where teens go into the world with abstinence-only education, the moral intention to wait until marriage (or for gay youth--never to have a legitimized relationship), hormones raging and with not a clue of how to protect themselves if the former fail.
See, I disagree with Obama, that families are off limits, specifically in cases when the policies of social and economic conservatives directly contribute to abysmal quality of life conditions for America’s youth, families and communities at large, AND then take no responsibility for those conditions, but blow smoke like their doing something moral—like keeping a baby. Let me tell you something about keeping babies.
What is the penalty for irresponsible parenting? Well, in this case, it should involve a call to CPS. However, in this backward Republican dimension, that brown bonus falls heavily upon our teens. Abstinence-only teaching and Anti-abortion-only pregnancy options lead to increases in pregnancy rates, HIV infections, and marriages based on nothing that has roots in a stable home for a child to actually thrive. In my work, when children are at risk for getting pregnant, STD’s, and are being pushed into unstable or chaotic relationship—we call that neglect. It may be legal, but it is certainly not ethical, far from moral and pro-life.
As a matter of fact, there is nothing pro-life about this approach and all the policies it upholds, and far from consistent. Palin and her pro-life Republicans are pro-life until you’ve exited the va-jae-jae—then you’re on your own, baby! Once you’re out, they want to cut social welfare programs like early childhood education, public education, housing, food programs, and actually seek to drive up your prices for insurance and medical care, because the bottom line is of more value than any individual life. We all get to feel the impact of living in the aquarium called Earth with limited space and food, with population moving toward 9 Billion in the near future. How much longer before we start eating each other? But, I’m getting ahead of myself. So, our American child gets to struggle with a parent not ready to parent, lack of jobs and basic needs, which will lead this child to grow up in a dysfunctional environment and if “blessed,” turn to crime. Only then do Republicans again pay attention to this sacred child they saved—by supporting tough on crime legislation and the death penalty for America’s child! Suddenly, pro-life sounds so hollow, doesn’t it? But hey, this idiotic religious value also benefits the fiscal conservatives because with more population, there are more American babies to consume all the crap they sell, and when they can’t consume, they turn to crime, and with more crime, there’s more need for security against these American babies, and more need for privatization of OUR lands, that actually belongs to the babies they’ve saved, but to keep this elite corporate machine making record profits off of the consumers, they will need to protect themselves from those “undesirables,” those ones for which they once waved the banner of pro-life.
So, for those fiscal and social conservatives, you can clap all you want but there is nothing noble about this woman or your cause. She can’t parent her own child and she wants to push her parenting on the rest of America. Oh, and don’t think I forgot about the second question—Why Palin? First, she’s a female (token); because forcing the Republican hand or pocketbook is the only way you get these people to change anything. Second, you’re not paying attention to McCain are you? This is a win-win for McCain and the corporate owned media, both who count on a hundred more years of war and resulting profits. Watch the noble lady who kept her baby and has forced her child into a situation that is disgusting on all angles. Absolutely, don’t pay attention to the fact that McCain did everything in his power to shoot down the GI Bill, that he is pro-torture, that he voted with Bush over 90% of the time in 2007, that his campaign is run by Roves former #2 and is infested with corporate lobbyists, that he has consistently voted in favor of policies that send more of YOUR jobs to foreign countries, that he wants to privatize more public land for oil companies, which fuels more wars, wars over oil and land privatization—and your children will die in those wars for these people, not America. Palin needs to stop acting like a white man and grow a va-jae-jae—a real one. But, hey, she’s going to make sure your baby gets out of that va-jae-jae safe and sound. But remember, after that, American baby, you’re on your own.
