When Bristol Palin got pregnant the first time around, I posted on freerepublic, “Bristol and Levi should get married immediately.” The response form fellow freepers was mostly, “No, they're too young to get married...not ready...” I am now even more than then convinced that shotgun weddings are the best solution to many unplanned pregnancies. Many freepers said of Levi Johnston, “He's a loser; she shouldn't marry him, at least not yet.” But “losers” don't stop being losers just because they don't have shotgun weddings. Since Bristol and Levi's baby was born, he's had another baby with another woman; now, Bristol's had a another baby with another man. Perhaps Bristol and Levi wouldn't have stayed together, but maybe they would have, and maybe they'd have had their additional children with each other, as a married couple.
I laud Bristol Palin for not aborting her second pregnancy, which was perhaps more humiliating for her than her first was. However, I believe it's time for conservatives to start pressuring pregnant women and their boyfriends to get married. (And, yes, I understand that perhaps Bristol Palin’s latest beau refused to get married. I'm not beating up on her.)