Politico: Bristol: Pregnancy wasn't 'ideal'

[Bleacher Creature]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090102/pl_politico/16999_1

Bristol: Pregnancy wasn't 'ideal'

Andy Barr – 45 mins ago

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol sought to discourage teen pregnancy Friday in a statement posted on the governor’s website welcoming her first grandchild, Tripp, into the family.

“Teenagers need to prevent pregnancy to begin with,” the governor’s teenage daughter said in the statement dated Wednesday but posted Friday. “This isn’t ideal. But I’m fortunate to have a supportive family which is dealing with this together. Tripp is so perfectly precious; we love him with all our hearts. I can’t imagine life without him now.”

She added that she “obviously discourages” other teenage couples from getting pregnant, noting that her life has been forever altered.

(SNIP)

Not ideal? Since 2009 is only two days old, I would call that the understatement of the year.

[Idealism]

1. Isn't her mom against sexual education in schools?

and the obvious premarital sex, etc

[Deja Q]

6. Which shows mom is being simplistic and misguided.

But the issues of peer pressure and media would hinder the plans of even the best mothers.

The issue transcends her ability or lack thereof or whatever to parent.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Um, uh, about that 'prevent pregnancy to begin with' thing...

FUCKING ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS DONT PREVENT FUCKING OR PREGNANCY, YOU MORAN.


When is that poor bastard Lee Wrangler or Levi Ducknutz or whatever the heck his stupid name is getting frogmarched to the chapel of luv?

[Deja Q]

4. Handing out credit cards doesn't help prevent people from racking up big bills.

Telling them to use the cards wisely might help to an extent. Not to abuse the cards or one's self in the process... one doesn't need to whip out the credit card every time one sees something one wants.

[aquart]

17. Let's see.

I can eliminate, I think, all avatars from my view, or put you on ignore just so you can't continue to blind me with yours. I kinda like seeing the other avatars. And since that moving thing makes it impossible to read anything you write anyway...

I hate having to do this for such a silly reason. But I also don't like being made dizzy and sick because of someone else's vanity.

[Deja Q]

3. Of course it's not ideal.

And never mind sex education'; they just say "When you put a penis in a vagina and the penis ejaculates, a baby will slide down the vagina 9 months later".

They don't bother with STDs, love, respecting one's self or others, "protection" (which wouldn't stop everybody), or anything else.

Plus, tell somebody something and they'll retort "My life is my choice and you have no control" or pretty much anything else to justify.

Then add the media, peer pressure, and other niceties, and the whole issue is far more complex than what people want to give it credit for.

[Roy]

20. Of course it's not ideal.

It didn't help them to win!!

I think this what they really meant.

[benld74]

5. Super glue between the legs helps more than abstinence programs

[terisan]

9. wouldn/t chemical castration of males be just as effective and less harmful to women?

[Roy]

22. Whichever that will produce fewer rabid conservatives... n/t

[Obamanaut]

12. If there is pregnancy, there was no abstinence program. nt

[SoCalDem]

7. "...family which..."

I would have chosen "family, who"...or "family, that"...

all three may be acceptable..but "family which", struck me as awkward

[Warren Stupidity]

10. It is a simple typo. She was referring to her mom.

The family witch.

[area51]

24. LMAO

:thumbsup:

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

8. wow, another rocket scientist in the palin family

:sarcasm:

[fortyfeetunder]

11. Amazing, she didn't use the A word!!

A - as in abstinence

[Gman]

13. Like I told my daughter

The moment that baby is born, your life has changed forever and will never be the same. You can go out to eat and go to a movie just because you want to and can the night before the baby is born. You don't have to worry about a babysitter, how late you're out or whatever. The moment the baby is born, you will never make another major decision without considering the child, no matter how old you or the child is. If you do not have kids, you cannot imagine what that is like. ONce you have kids, you know what it used to be like but can never have it again (at least in theory).

[immoderate]

14. I object to the phrase, "you can't imagine what it's like..."

What do you think is the purpose of imagination? If I did have kids, I'd have no need to imagine what it's like.

Not to pick on you, but this little bit of verbal hyperbole is something I've heard many times, and I'm going to put a stop to it, if it's the last thing I do. :hi:

--IMM

Edited to promote agreement among the verbs.

[Gman]

19. Well, the thing is

those of us with kids, and even grandkids were right were you are now so we remember that we could imagine what it was like to have kids. But nothing gives more insight than actual experience. You may imagine on occasion for a while, maybe talk about it for a couple of hours. When you have kids you deal with them 24 hours a day in real life with no breaks. Maybe the occasional lull, after they've gone to bed or are gone. But it's something you deal with all the time and something you don't do anything without thinking about.

[immoderate]

25. I can imagine!

:)

--IMM

[Lorien]

26. I have several friends who were forced into raising their siblings

because their parents weren't responsible at all. They never have had any children of their own because they "can imagine" what it's like to have kids...they can imagine it very, very well.

[Gman]

27. Great example...

and you can't blame them at all. Now that you mention it, I'm thinking of a girl I dated when I was in my teens. It was the same situation. Not one of those 7 kids ever had any kids. I wonder how much more often that happens.

[LiberalFighter]

16. I would add the word sane because there are women that have not considered the child

That their social life is more important than the baby.

[yodoobo]

21. truer words have rarely been said. (nt)

[Orsino]

15. She's fortunate to have supportive family...

...and to be related to someone famous. US$300k contracts for baby pics are outside of the realm of the possible for most teen mothers.

I won't fault her for speaking out to discourage teen pregnancy, but I'm not sure she has much else to add to a discussion of the issue.

[BlooInBloo]

18. A condom could have prevented it, you worthless fuckwads.

[Canuckistanian]

23. Funny, that wasn't the mesage during the RNC convention

Back then, it was a shining example of "the culture of life"...... or something.

[NNN0LHI]

28. How many months after the Moose Lady eloped was her first child born?

Just curious.

Don