Is it *ODD* to keep a baby?

I am watching the reporting on this and the story now is how supportive of the fact that the family decided (the FAMILY decided?) to keep the baby.

Is this odd?
Do Republicans think that most pregnancies are aborted?
Do they think that most teenage mothers abort?
Do they really think there was any other option, other than HAVING AN ABORTION IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAMPAIGN!?!?!?


I guess this is in the same mold as when I hear someone say that "he is a good man he is honest" as if honesty is outside of the norm.

She's keeping it, as opposed to giving it up for adoption.

HOWEVER, when I was taking my adoptions 'class,' there were no conservatives in there. They are good at causing situations, but not at resolving them satisfactorily. Just my two cents' worth (of course, Beloved Daughter, now 12, was placed with us about a decade ago).

So it appears to be another lie that she is 17 -- sounds a little less shocking, imo

I guess it depends on who said she was 17 - the campaign, or the media that decided she might as well be.

I heard that little addition on the latest news update on CNN

it was "is pregnant but may be getting married"

They are saying it now as if there was never any doubt-maybe there wasn't but if that was the case wouldn't the Palin family(and McCain campaign) have added that at the beginning?

"Well at least she isn't aborting"

From a 2000 study, but these things don't change quickly. Probably "least population density" also correlates with a scarcity of clinics.

http://www.greenjournal.org/cgi/reprint/104/4/741.pdf


"In 2000 there was no significant correlation between
population density and the percentage of teenage
females who conceived when analyzed by ACOG district
(correlation coefficient r = 0.063, P = .87). In contrast, there
was a significant correlation between population density
and the percentage of pregnant teens who electively terminated
their pregnancy when analyzed by ACOG district
(r = 0.85, P = .003). In regions of greatest population
density the percentage of pregnant teens who electively
terminated was about 50%. In regions of least population
density the percentage of pregnant teens who electively
terminated was about 25%. Similar results were observed
when teen pregnancy and abortion data from 1999 were
analyzed."

I was not aware of that

If they were indeed 'Pro-Life", then wouldn't that mean they would automatically keep the baby, no need for discussion or to choose anything, right? However, this reads like they made a decision to chose to keep the baby. Pro-Choice.

large numbers of (liberal) women use abortions as their main method of birth control.

Reality is not a strong suit with Conservatives.

right-wingers oppose abortions is that there are not enough babies being given up for adoption. A very large percentage of unwed mothers keep their babies, rather than giving them up as was common some time back. There was also a time when it was fairly common for a family not to tell a child he/she was adopted, as if not looking like any of the relatives wasn't already a clue.

And yeah, a light of right-wingers are under the impression that many women have abortions casually -- heck I know fairly liberal men who seem to think that. I have a lot of trouble getting them to understand that regardless of the circumstances of the conception, women to not get abortions lightly and without thinking it through. And many women who have an abortion sincerely wish the circumstances of their lives were different and they would be in a position to have and keep the baby.

What young Miss Palin has decided is her business, and not ours. She deserves the support of her family. Yes, we here understand that abstinence-only sex education can lead to exactly the situation that Miss Palin is in, but it also happens to savvier young women. Birth control sometimes fails. Sometimes people don't use it. Unplanned pregnancies happen.

Choice is exactly that. It includes the choice to have the baby.

They're just making the distinction. "We're going to keep this baby, as opposed to those nasty Democrats who would eat the poor little thing".

:sarcasm: