Posted on 09/01/2008 10:51:18 PM PDT by Cincinna
There seems to be a view that teenage births are somehow a bad thing. But it seems to us that it's not the births that are the problem. It's the environment that marginalizes teen motherhood, encourages our youth to delay marriage, provides too few incentives for family-building, and too few jobs for the fathers and mothers. What is needed is not scolding from the government but lower taxes, fewer regulations, and overall pro-growth policies. ... We're happy to have women and men decide for themselves when to have children. But when a trend develops like the drop in the birth rate in New York, it's a sign that we need public policies designed to encourage more people and make New York a hospitable place for all people who want to have children.
-- Editorial of The New York Sun, "Population Portent," December 22, 2006
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That editorial, a response to the catastrophe of a drop in the rate of births to young women in New York, was issued long before Governor Palin had been selected as Senator McCain's running mate and before Mrs. Palin announced that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter Bristol is pregnant. So our editorial wasn't devised to defend the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate. But it will give our readers a sense of our view of the news of Miss Palin's pregnancy and her decision to marry the father, carry the baby to term, and start a family. In a word, the whole Palin family has set an example to admire.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
"No doubt the blue noses of the left are going to try to convince the voters otherwise, but we predict they will do so at their peril. For if they mock Miss Palin, or her parents, in this situation they will end up trapped on the wrong side of the values issue, which is the flip side of the "experience" issue. That is, the experience issue would hold that Mrs. Palin needs more time-in-grade to run for vice president, even though she has more experience in the executive branch of government than Messrs. Obama and Biden combined. The values voters reckon it's not the experience that counts, but the values."
OUTRAGEOUS.
I’m waiting for them to find the car the baby was conceived in—investigative minds want to know!
I’m sure the National Enquirer is ‘on it’ as we speak.
Oh, I’d say more like MSNBC or CNN.
Heck, it might have been in a dog sled or snowmobile.
Drive-Bys Scramble To Destroy Her:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082908/content/01125113.guest.html
Igloo?
Dang. Why didn't I think of that?
Yes they will. They realize that if you sling enough mud,,,
some of the mud WILL stick,,,
and the mud that DOES stick...
is very, VERY hard to remove!!
There seems to be a view that teenage births are somehow a bad thing. But it seems to us that it’s not the births that are the problem.
Well perhaps if she finished high school I could agree with this. I think people on here were very hard on Britney’s sister when she got pregnant. If we are going to accept out of wedlock babies for one we should accept them for all.
I just did some counting on my fingers and toes...
Obama’s parents married feb 2 1961...
Barry born August 4 1961...
Uh...gee..that’s only 6 months...
She was pregent when they got married...
possibly WHY they got married....as abortion was still illegal...
So true! And I wonder if all these hyperventilating left wing pro-abortionists would have recommended Obama’s single teenage mother to abort him? It would be an interesting question to pose Obama in a debate considering his opinion that an unplanned teenage pregnancy is punishment and warrants the need for abortion.
Ya both are crazy. 23 hour long wintertime nights that are very, very cold. Beds or bear rugs, take yer pick! LOL
I’ll say it. Teenage pregnancies are a bad thing; unplanned pregnancies, and kids getting pregnant in high school. You can forget going to college. Everything shows that children born in these circumstances are less likely to have academic achievement, are more likely to end up in the justice system, etc. High school kids are barely ready to go off on live on their own these days, let alone raise their own kids.
That being said, I’m glad they chose life. But this shouldn’t have happened in the first place- and its just a bad job of parenting. It happens, and then its a matter of how you deal with it.
Bingo!
There have been enough teen pregnancy and out of wedlock birth threads on FR to make the best spin on the Palin situation ring hollow.
You’re so right!!
It would be an interesting, if not amusing question to pose somehow...
Moderator: “So, Mister Obama, what if one of these ‘fetuses, or children as some would call it’ - just to quote your senate transcript - was to one day be nominated to be President of the United States? Should the whole country be punished with that child?”
Obama: “I uhh ummmmmm that was before my pay grade was determined.”
(Sorry - this whole “Mine is sacred, yours is slime” mindset among the vermin libs really gets me mean.)
I doubt the National Enquirer will touch this. It is owned and vetted by Clintonoids Robert Altmas and David Kendall.
They want McCain to win and Obama to lose so that Hillary can run in 2012.
There is nothing to prevent Bristol from finishing High School or going on to College.
I disagree. Hillary wants Obama to win at this point—as she will be guaranteed a LIFETIME SUPREME COURT SEAT!!
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