I’ve seen a few places online where women, specifically pro-choice women, are just viscious in their attacks against Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin’s teenaged pregnant daughter, for her decision to marry the father of her unborn child.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 First of all, why is it any of our damn beeswax what Bristol does?\u00a0 She is not her mother any more then I am mine.<\/p>\n
Truly, what’s the worst that could happen for young Bristol?\u00a0 She could wind up a statistic, yet another young, failed marriage that ends in divorce.\u00a0 It could turn into a loveless marraige that she, like thousands of other people around the globe, will hang on to for the sake of the child.\u00a0 Or, just maybe, she could wind up like thousands of others who married their high school sweetheart and find their “happy ever after.”<\/p>\n
Marrying young is nothing new.\u00a0 To decry this marriage as a “shotgun” wedding, or declare that she is being forced to marry because of her mother’s political career ignore the fact that significant pressure would have to be applied to the boy and his family as well.\u00a0 The truth is, we are not privy to Britsol or her fiance’s thoughts.\u00a0 We were not there in the Palin family meetings to hear how this decision came about.\u00a0 What we hear are those women who, looking through the lens of their own prejudices and experiences, have decided that this would be bad for them or their children.\u00a0 Most of those hating on Bristol are Democrats who see this as a political strategy.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why does it have to be a political strategy?\u00a0 Why can’t it simply be a couple of kids in love, one of whom has a mother in politics?<\/p>\n
It’s because Bristol has choosen life.\u00a0 She has choosen to give birth rather then have her kid sucked into a sink.\u00a0 The pro-abortion folks just don’t know how to respond to this family.\u00a0 Afterall, if Bristol can have the kid and be happily married at a young, why, other girls might try it too. Can’t have any of that.\u00a0 There is even a doctor in Canada worried that the exsistence of baby Trig will lessen the amount of abortions of Down-Syndrome kids! (via Spunky<\/a>)<\/p>\n In a discussion about this very topic, I’ve been informed that because I support Palin, I’m in favor of “wire hangers and back-alley abortions.”\u00a0 I’ve been called “anti-choice”, because apparently if you are against one choice, you are against them all.\u00a0 I’ve also been lumped in with the fringe extreme anti-birth control bunch, while at the same time being told not to lump all “pro-choicers” together with the extremist “pro-abortion” crowd.\u00a0 Irony much?<\/p>\n