UGH!
I just had a ridiculous, 30+ min convo with my Papi about the Bristol Palin scandal burning up the wires. It’s ridiculous! Needless to say, the veep candidate was NOT vetted. (Where is K. Rove when you need him?!) Talk about skeletons in the closet, or, um, the womb…
No one can deny that the GOP is on serious CYA (cover your ass) detail. And do I think that John McCain and Co. knew the extent of Sarah Palin’s daughter’s extra curricular activities? Hell no. Chalk it up to the abstinence only platform.
But let’s be honest, Dad. The reason Bristol decided to have the child was not due to the fact that her mother was a Republican Veep candidate running on staunch anti-abortion campaign. Your mother’s career is one of the last things you think of when you’ve missed your 3rd period in a row (eek).
Let’s talk about her peers for a minute. She and Jamie Lynn Spears could have been BFF. Both in the spotlight, famous for one reason or another, and both preggers before legal. But more importantly, both from a background that condones teenage pregnancy – not the rarefied, upper middle class prep-school set, where 17 year old girls have abortions and don’t tell their mothers, regardless of occupation.
The spin machine that is contemporary news warps the important factors in this matter, which are A. family values, B. peer values and C. personal responsibility. Did she have a choice whether to have the baby or not?
She had a choice to have sex, protected or unprotected; she had a choice to tell her mother she was pregnant; she had a choice to have an abortion before/after her mother found out. Regardless of the key factors in her decision-making process, she did have her own mind.
This is what I find most inane about the media coverage. They treat this 17 year old person as if she had no autonomy. It may be true that she may not have much life experience or perspective, but that does not negate her mind or will. Women are more than just a vessel. They are more than a symbol of maternity, hysterical and incapable of independent, rational thought.
That said, open the parachute before you jump!
Lit Chicks 