Bristol Palin is Pregnant a Month After Canceling Wedding: 'I Know This Has Been a Disappointment'

People ^ | 06/25/2015 | SARAH MICHAUD

[MinorityRepublican]

A month after canceling her wedding, Bristol Palin has announced that she's pregnant.

"I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant," she wrote in a blog post on the religious website Patheos. "Honestly, I've been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one."

She continued, "I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you. But please respect [my 6-year-old son] Tripp's and my privacy during this time. I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy."

[Cecily]

Bristol should stick with the family “T” theme for male names (Todd, Track, Trig, Tripp) and name the new baby (if a boy):

Trunk
Troy
Trap
Trestle
Truth
Trent
Tremble
Tryst
Trefoil
Trim
Trill

or maybe just plain old John or William this time.

[dmz]

Nope. He’s been named as the father.

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By an anonymous Wasilla insider. That’s a bit less a sure thing, doncha think?

[Vermont Lt]

I am not a pro-choice fool.

I’ve told my girls that I would help them if they got into trouble, but I would not raise their children for them. And I would not support an action financially.

I also helped them get educated about birth control and why they MUST be careful. It is not a decision (to have sex with someone) to be taken lightly.

We (my wife and I) did not miss an opportunity to have real life conversations about teen pregnancy and the impact on the rest of your life. Every chance we got to discuss how their friends were dealing with their “sexual” lives to point out how they were not prepared to take those steps.

Now, I am no prude. I am also not naive.

But my oldest daughter just got engaged to a great guy. They still sleep in different beds (him on the couch.) My youngest’s boyfriend and him make jokes about being roommates when they visit.

Did my kids have premarital sex? I am sure they did/ But they both managed their libidos and their lust to get into the mid twenties without having babies.

So, my point is that when a woman makes a mistake, I can understand it. When a woman makes two such mistakes, there is really no excuse. The children are without a father married to their mother. That used to be a shameful thing.

One of the problems these days is that we do not shame people enough. We do not teach our kids because we don’t want to battle their peers. We do not take the opportunity to coach our children when we have the opportunity.

[Vermont Lt]

Please see my 123.

[Darren McCarty]

First and foremost, I'm a save the babies guy. To me that's reducing the number of abortions, even if the cost is something that is less than ideal. I don't think you're pro-abortion. By adopting, you've earned my respect and lived it instead of just talking it.

One of the problems these days is that we do not shame people enough.

This is where our disagreement lies. I think there's way too much shaming in society today. Most of it, but not all of it, comes from the left. It's a major tool the left uses against those who stray from the company line. God forbid someone makes a comment that disagrees with the homo mafia for example. Embarrassment and shame are two major motives for murder, right behind domestic (related) and money issues.

There's been 50 million abortions in the US since Roe V Wade. It is easy for someone who has gotten pregnant to quietly go out and get an abortion and avoid the shame and embarrassment. Some who has an unplanned pregnancy is under a lot of pressure. It's happened in my extended family. If Bristol Palin went out and got an abortion, few would know. If it didn't go out to the public, there wouldn't be the finger pointing, "bastard" talk, and the like. Some other woman who got into this situation sees this type of reaction can easily go "I don't want to deal with that. I'm calling planned barrenhood." That's what I don't want to see. 25% of abortions according to one survey choose abortions due to "Do not want people to know I had sex or got pregnant." People will go to great lengths to avoid embarrassment and shame, and that includes illegal murder, let alone legal murder.

[DJ MacWoW]

No. I don’t. She’s 3 months along and they had a quick engagement in March with a May wedding planned. Sounds like they knew and things didn’t work out.

[Vermont Lt]

I understand your feeling. I think there is too much “peer pressure” and not shame.

Peer pressure to comply with the status quo, or the prevailing thought. Such is the case with sexuality and abortion in this country. The liberal and vocal left spout off about it.

You are right.

I am referring to go old, “Have you name shame” type of shame. There are few social consequences for someone having a child out of wedlock. The same for someone having an abortion.

Expressing or displaying your moral stand on something gets you ridicule—even when it is stated as the response to a question. For example, I have plenty of gay friends who’ve gotten “married.” I care deeply for some of these people and it pains me to express my dismay at these “ceremonies.” So, I keep my mouth shut.

But when asked, I explain my position. This has gotten me in trouble with friends and family. But interestingly not with the gay people in question—because they know I love them in my heart. I have explained to them why I would not be able to witness the ceremony. But that I support their love for each other and would never embarass them by making a scene about it. We agree to disagree.

But, I get grief. Some people would bend to the pressure. I choose not to.

That is the kind of shame that we need more of. Shame based on a moral structure. Not fads.

[DJ MacWoW]

One of the problems these days is that we do not shame people enough.

I disagree with that based on politics. If you're a Conservative you'll pay dearly. FB is on fire with comments and graphics about Bristol. However if it's "Shaquana" she'd just get a bigger welfare check. Bristol being a Palin will be run through the ringer and beat with a merciless stick. We don't need to do it too. When should a Conservative sound like a liberal? Never.

[dmz]

You’re a more trusting person than I.

Anonymous Wasilla insiders are not immediately credible imo.

[DJ MacWoW]

The quickie engagement, revelations that he’d been married before and then the break up lend it credence.

[conservativegranny]

Bristol claimed she knew about his past relationships so it has to be some other reason they broke up. If she was telling the truth that is.

And did her mother find this out by reading her blog? She puts (sorry mom) in the heading and then says she wants you (whoever you is) to be the first to know.

So it sounds to me like her family was not the first to know and that they found out probably from the blog. How horrible and immature if this is the case! But she has done something similar in the past. Sarah’s family found out about her short-lived engagement to her son’s father, Levi, from a tabloid magazine article. This was after Levi had gone on talk shows and trashed her family.

It seems to me that this girl has some serious issues.