Awesome! On the day of the 37th annual March for Life in Washington, DC. I didn't understand why Sarah would do this program live today. Now I know!
Posted on 01/22/2010 9:44:21 AM PST by MaxCUA
In light of today’s March for Life in D.C., which promotes a positive, peaceful, hopeful message concerning the sanctity of life, Bristol and I are being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey to talk about choosing life. The show airs today, and you can check your local listings for details. plus her latest tweets
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Awesome! On the day of the 37th annual March for Life in Washington, DC. I didn't understand why Sarah would do this program live today. Now I know!
Despite Palin’s great immutable message, I wish she wouldn’t give Oprah the satisfaction or time-of-day by being a guest on her show when she was shunned and snubbed by brainless “Oprah the Orca” during the election.
I understand your point, but what an opportunity to explain her ideas to an audience that typically wouldn’t take time to listen. I admire her for being willing to “preach” beyond the choir.
I'm looking for my photo of the baby's tiny hand reaching out of its mother womb to grab the finger of her doctor. Someone should post it today.
Another one I haven’t seen in a while is a FReeper’s home-photo of his child’s foot impressed on his wife tummy from the inside.
Anyone have that handy?
Nice job making me cry AGAIN!
Just watched the interview. It was okay, and they handled themselves well, but what is it about the word “abstinence” that makes liberals get so angry? Oprah actually said she “bristled” when she read Bristol’s statement that she won’t have sex again until she’s married. Then she went on to say that 1/3 of teenagers are having sex by the time they’re 18 and that abstinence isn’t realistic. Well doesn’t that mean 2/3 of teens aren’t having sex, and therefore abstinence is very realistic? That was a very awkward moment in the interview. I loved how Bristol handled it, though. Nice, short reply.
Debs, you have a great heart. Actually, I didn't even see this picture at the link I posted until later, wondering what brought you tears.
Baby Samuel (the child whose hand reached out of his mother's womb grabbing the doctor's finger) has been born!!!
I don’t like Oprah either, but Palin’s doing the right thing here. It’s a strong and important message that she and her family has. It’s also important for other women to see her for who she is first hand and not just as the MSM portrays her.
I also like to think that Oprah’s eating a little crow, too, by having had Sarah on twice recently. :)
Yes, it’s good for the Oprah audience to have a dose of reality now and then. Good for Sarah and her daughter for being willing to try to get the pro-life message out to the masses.
I think to them there is something “wrong” with abstinence.” Something “unnatural” about it, like it were an eating disorder that leads to constipation. Fact is that having sex young is so “open-ended.” Since early marriage has become so impractical, it usually leads nowhere except to a baby. If not there, it leads to multiple sexual partners with all the complications that result.
I’ve pondered over that often myself.
It wasn’t too long ago that “childhood” was over by the late teens.
The boys were finishing an apprenticeship - the girls were already engaged or married.
Now that period of time is “teen” years, which is really an extended childhood.
But it’s gotten worse over the past 2 decades.
Now you’ll see people in their 20’s and 30’s being referred to as “kids.”
We’re going to expect them to wait until what? 25 or 30 for marriage? And not have sex before then?
Yes - it doesn’t follow the natural order of things.
Everyone said dh and I were so young when we got married—we were 22 and he had been in the Navy for four years (if that don’t make you a grown up, I don’t know what does). When my sil had her first baby at 31, she told me that she then understood why women should start having babies in their 20s (like I did), LOL.
My grandparents got married at 18 and had four kids by the time they were 26! They were married for over 61 years before Grandpa passed away a few months ago. If they had waited until they were 25 or 30 to get married, who knows if my dad would have been born (he was child #2).
A woman’s 40s are the time she’s should be done having babies (depending on her biological clock)—not when she should be saying ‘Shoot—I forgot to have kids—I WANT ONE NOW and consequences be damned!’
As an almost 37 y.o. woman, I don’t feel like a kid—I’ve got a teenager on my hands next year! EEEEEK!!!!! And a girl one at that! My poor husband :)
I got hammered on pretty bad for getting married at 21.
We’ve had 8.
I had them in my 20’s, my 30’s, and one at 40.
Let me tellya - it was a heckuva lot easier in my 20’s!
I don’t see any correlation around me between success in a marriage as related to being older at the wedding.
But maybe that’s just my neck of the woods.
People can sort things out, as used to do, fifty years ago. So far as abstinence is concerned, the focus must be to prevent kids of younger and younger age from engaging in sexual activity. Sex is a bit like a loaded gun; it needs to be limited to as few uses as possible. The problem with sexual experimentation is that, as often as not, it need not make a person more mature. Indeed, it may keep him from growing up. or it may make him/her jaded by the time they growup. “Is that all there is,” as the Peggy Lee song went?
That’s what I’m seeing with the kids today - they are jaded.
It isn’t a big deal to them.
To me it appears very unromantic and sad.
I was getting ‘bristled’ at Oprah badgering Bristol, trying to get her to say what? “Oh, I didn’t mean what I said, I think all teens should have sex whenever they feel like it, that’s my plan too!”
How stupid and liberal Oprah has become over all these years.
< spits in disgust >
Loved the way Sarah seemed much more relaxed and answered the questions in a less guarded way...and how she came to Bristol’s rescue (who looked absolutely terrified, to tell the truth) when Oprah was badgering her. Good on Sarah for making Oprah look like an idiot for promoting teen sex!
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