BREAKING: PALIN ADMITS HER 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT.

The New York Post ^ | 9-1-08

[WackySam]

ST. PAUL -- The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Yes, she is like the rest of us in that she is human and makes mistakes.

She is also like only the best of us in that she chose to let her baby live-unlike too many others who run to the mill instead, or drag their girlfriends or children there.

[Petronski]

The headline. "Palin 'admits'..."

That's a loaded word for an "announcement."

[cdchik123]

He says in his profile he’s half black.

[HollyB]

When I became pregnant out of wedlock, (I was much older than Bristol), but still, I saw the reaction in my church. I was so touched when the older women held a baby shower for me and some of them shared their own ‘secret’ stories of pregnancy before marriage and some of being a single mothers. Their openness gave me incredible support and helped me to hold my head a little higher to NOT BE ASHAMED. Because of their love, I will never do to Bristol what I am reading today. She is not ‘less than’ because she is with child. She has a baby growing, a wonderfully and fearfully made child that God already knows! I send her many, many blessings of love and pray for health and peace.

[Xenalyte]

Those of us who believe that conception properly happens inside the bounds of holy wedlock.

[dandelion]

Human beings make mistakes - but no human being IS a mistake.

God has a plan, and Sarah Palin is helping her daughter Bristol prepare for this little person she is now carrying...

That is EXACTLY what a good mother should do; to prepare their children for life. Children ARE life.

[Rokurota]

He looks Eskimo to me.

they all look the same to me /joke

[John W]

“In the meantime - in the real world - McCain/Palin just took a huge nosedive among conservatives.”

Ridiculous. You have noted the number of posts here by conservatives without apparently reading a single one of them.

[Age of Reason]

And lest I forget, more people mean more taxes, too.

[Onerom99]

Those who actually have practiced that? 4% of the country?

[snarkytart]

Sounds like she’d already done some serious “growing up.” What do we know about the babbydaddy?

. . . . .

That's none of our business, really.

PS.. The left wing bloggers should be outed again by McCain's camp for spreading the lie about Trig.

[Xenalyte]

>>This ends the idiotic rumors her daughter bore Trig and Sarah faked her pregnancy.<<

How does it do that, exactly? One can bear children serially.

[usmcobra]

Would you perfer I say she got herself impregnated by a Negro or a colored?

The fact is Stanley was under aged and knocked up by someone who should have been faithful to his wife, didn’t take care of her and ultimately abandoned both of them, leaving her to fend for herself and their child.

The myth of Obama’s father being this great hero comes straight out of his own fertile imagination. His father was scum.

[retrokitten]

A very touching post! :-)

[mylife]

Have you read the thread?

[Mr. Silverback]

If some leftist running for President or VP came up with an unmarried pregnant teenager, just before an election no less, you'd probably be the first one out here mocking their family values.

Um, no. As a board member of two pro-life non-profits, I am well aware that girls often get pregnant despite their parents' values, and I'm also aware that no matter how wrong-headed liberals might be, they don't go around telling their daughters it's OK to get knocked up in high school.

It's clear, you're a little hypocrite.

Well, apparently it's clear I'm a hypocrite because of a position I've never thought of, held or expressed.

I hereby call you out. I challenge you to find any place where a Democrat's teen child was revealed to be pregnant or the father of such a pregnancy and I said they were a bad parent or that it made them unfit for office.

Cite just one time.

Bring it.

[Cedric]

He looks Eskimo to me.

An Eskimo basketballa?

[uncbob]

I guarantee you that the PRO LIFE people here would be praising a leftist who didn’t abort a kid

But if you want a shot at hypocrisy try this

The outrage at the KOS BS about Palin not being pregnant etc etc ( and it was/is an outrage)

BUT How many times have you seen on this site that Web Hubbell was Chelsea’s real father

[Churchillspirit]

Where will all this end?

Soon the only people who will consider a career in politics will be lowlifes like the Clintons who do what they like and don't give a d*** what people think.

[Caramelgal]

However, I know enough children of good parents to know that children have a mind of their own, even children who are good Christians and come from good Christian families.

Excellent comment. I’ve seen it happen in my own family and with some friends of mine.

I have a niece who got pregnant at 16 by a much older man BTW. At the time, I did hold her parents, who are very conservative politically and are devout Roman Catholics, accountable for not seeing the dangers of their young daughter’s relationship with an older man but then she and the father were in love at the time and there was little to be done to stop them and they did get married and he took responsibility for the child as did she.

Although the marriage didn’t last, in the end my great niece just turned 15 and she is a lovely, intelligent and thoughtful young woman who has a very good head on her young shoulders and is not likely to make the same mistake. She is a straight A honor student since the first grade, a talented musician and a budding young writer who won both an American Legion and VFW essay contest on Patriotism who wants to get a degree in biology and have a career in medical research to as she’s said, “find ethical and scientifically sound ways to save lives”. We can all be very glad that her parents and her grandparents and the rest of her family, never saw her has “a burden” to be aborted and thrown away for the sake of convince.

My niece is now happily re-married and she gave birth to triplets in March. Her first OBY tried repeatedly to convince her and her husband to have the “selective reduction”, i.e. abortion/murder of two of the babies because it was a very risky pregnancy given that she and her husband had just had a baby the previous April (and they were practicing both natural family planning and using condoms both times for good measure)and because the doctor was not experienced enough to want to handle it. I’m glad to say that they quickly found a new doctor, a specialist in high risk pregnancies and today I have three more beautiful, healthy and much loved great nieces for a total of five beautiful girls who did not end up as “medical waste”.

My best friend got pregnant before marriage in her early twenties. She was a bit of a wild child back then but the father was and is still is a very good guy from a very good family and is very conservative in his politics and is a deeply religious traditional Roman Catholic. They were in love and while she had a bit of a past, he did not, but passion got the better of them both. They got married and while his family did disown him for a short time, they had three more beautiful children together and recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. My friend long since stopped being a wild child, converted to Catholicism and is now a very traditional stay at home mom and a lot more conservative in her opinions these days.

I have a good friend at work who is a strong, conservative Evangelical Christian who raised her three daughters in that same mold. Her oldest daughter right after HS ran away to elope with her boyfriend because she was pregnant and didn’t want her parents to know. Recently my friend told me that her grand daughter at 16 was pregnant. While neither she or her daughter were happy about the circumstances, they both support her in having the baby and will do whatever they can to make sure the child is born and loved and raised the best way possible and the father has also stepped up to the plate.

If anything this has made Sarah Palin even more admirable in my eyes. A mother making the right decision to not abort her downs syndrome child and as a mother who supports her daughter in making the only right choice.