| akuma587 said: Yeah, screw pregnant teenage women. They should just have to roll over in the street and die if there boyfriend and entire family abandons them for the shame they have brought upon their family name. They should abandon all future hope of getting an education and take a menial job which won't even provide them enough money to pay for childcare so they have to leave the child by himself. Then we should arrest them for neglecting their children, and put the kids into foster care. Then we should leave those kids in foster care because it is more important to worry about kids who aren't born yet (Damn those pro-choice bastards!) than the children who are alive right now. It's their fault for being born! Then we should imprison those kids right when they hit 17, because they are going to commit crime anyways. They don't abide by our standard of working hard and moving up in this country with your own blood, sweat, and tears. Damn, I love America. |
Your claim was that she was a hypocrite, this does not support your claim at all ... In fact, it occured to me that all these claims that Sarah Palin's views on abstinence only as being the reason Bristol was pregnant are also horribly flawed (or atleast we don't have enough information to make that assumption).
There are (essentially) three realistic ways that Bristol's sexual encounter lead to her pregnancy
- Bristol and her boyfriend didn't know that sex lead to pregnancy, didn't know you could protect against pregnancy, or believed in a myth that lead them to have unprotected sex
- Bristol and her boyfriend knew that sex can lead to pregnancy and knew that condoms and birthcontrol pills would reduce the probability of Bristol getting pregnant but decided to have unprotected sex anyways
- Bristol and her boyfriend knew that sex can lead to pregnancy and took precautions (used a condom, birthcontrol pills, or both) and were just one of the statistically unlucky people who ended up pregnant anyways.
I think we can all agree that #1 is fairly unlikely unless Bristol was prevented from watching television and surfing the internet ...
Now, if it was #2 you could argue that further sexual education would have driven them to take the necessary precautions, but being that teens that are given excellent sexual education still make this mistake it is by no means certain. In general teenagers are hormonal, irrational and have the belief that they will never suffer the consequences of their actions so even well reasoned arguments are often ignored.
If #3 is the case than this would just demonstrate that even the best funded and highest quality sexual education program in the world would have failed to prevent Bristol's pregnancy. In fact, if this is what happened this only adds further support to Sarah Palin's argument that Abstinence is the only appropriate policy for teenagers.
