From the Palins: "Bristol Palin *made the decision* to keep the baby . . ."

"Bristol Palin made the decision to keep the baby . . ."

Because she had a choice and a say over this very private decision
which her own mother works to take away from her completely
and every other young woman, or any woman

and I support Bristol Palin's decision 100%, just as I would if she had chosen otherwise. That is what being pro-choice is about.

(I am not surprised that her mother advocates abstinence only education either. The pregnancy is an unsurprising outcome of that.)

Whether her parents took it away is another matter altogether.

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Thanks for the reminder.

Such hypocrites.

Just a possibility.

A choice was available.

If her parents didn't allow her the choice because they are assholes, then I feel very sorry for Bristol.

I'm glad she has a supportive family and she is not going to be on her own raising a child at that age. I wouldn't want to deal with marriage and family so young, but I hope it goes well for her.

Sarah Palin's anti-choice stances are anti-adoption. In fact, many conservative evangelicals are all about carrying to term and giving the baby to someone else to raise.

So, yes, Bristol may have had a choice, but it's not from the wider range of choices that most of us on the left want to see left in place.

Tell us the number of adoptions down at the conservative chruch you attend. How many? You make many claims that I find laughable. Do you know how many children are in foster care with no adoptive parents? And how many conservative evangelicals there are? Both numbers are too high to make the claim that these folk are 'all about' adoption. Give us some examples and numbers, k?
Because in my very strong experience with Evangelical families, they will make use of any option that is available. As my born again cousin said when her teen was preggy- 'well, we are supposed to be against abortion, but this is my daughter's future here''.....
If they were as you say, there would not be so many parentless kids out there, the 'vangicals would be swooping them up for the nurture.
Yeah, they are all about adoption alright. How many at your hubby's church have adopted?

I am pretty sure in that family there are no other choices.

keep it instead of giving it up for adoption?

Does anyone know?

We can probably rule the choice of abortion out, I suppose.

I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin isn't trying to take away the choice between keeping the baby or giving it up for adoption. She's all about forcing women to give birth. The only choice Palin wants to take away is the abortion choice. Well, to be fair, Sarah Palin knows she would choose to save herself should a pregnancy ever threaten her own life, so she does make that one exception. But she would ban abortion in all other circumstances...which means the only choice a woman has comes after the birth...to keep the baby or put it up for adoption.

So yeah...the daughter has a choice to make after she gives birth...to keep the baby or to give it up for adoption. So really...her daughter carrying to term and giving birth is in keeping with Sarah Palin's thinking.

the baby or give it up for adoption. I don't think abortion is part of that equation.