The Palin Teenage Pregnancy Is Off Limits but the Hypocrites Are Not

I have no quarrel with Sarah Palin, and certainly none with her pregnant seventeen year old daughter, who is having a baby out of wedlock.

I do have a quarrel with the right wing hypocrites. I am talking about the self-congratulatory commentators who never get pregnant themselves, have access to all of the condoms they can unroll, and impose their twisted morality upon the rest of society.

The twisted morality is not their position on unwed teenage girls having babies. I join with them in urging young women not to conceive, without passing moral judgment on their behavior.

I also support sex education, making birth control available to sexually active teens, and full counseling to young woman about all of the choices available to them should they become pregnant.

The hypocrisy lies in the treatment of Sarah Palin as some great moral crusader in supporting her daughter's choice to have a baby and silence on her child raising skills.

There is total silence and not the usual condemnation of the grandmother-to-be we normally hear from the radio and television commentators from Milwaukee to Houston and San Diego to New York City.

The bitter attacks on the mothers is gone. These men are creeps.

Comments

[Katrina]

My pet peeve with these creeps is that not teaching about sex means not teaching about Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Pregnancy is one possible consequence of unprotected sex. STDs, which can be passed along during oral sex are another.