I'd really, really, really like to turn this on its head and turn the focus to those men and women who DO compound it with another, and live on "stolen" respectability in the sense that ending the pregnancy, in that it ends another life, is far worse than the act that conceived the child in the first place. Think of it in mathematical terms, with fornication having a negative ethical weighting of 5, and murder of 100. 105 > 5, thus the woman (and man) who abort carry a burden of conscience and live a lie. Every liberal woman you see can be suspected of having an abortion, which is far worse than what Bristol Palin is doing to rectify her mistake: marrying the man.
Yes. A lot of families force the daughter to have an abortion so as not to “embarrass” the family. They can force the child because abortion is legal, and young scared pregnant girls are easily influenced by their authority figures.
And if she had an abortion, there would be no “story”, and nobody would be sniffing around to learn it.
I pray that I have taught my children better. I know good christian families who have had to deal with this issue.
I certainly don’t think this is a good situation, but it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It seems a bit sexist to blame her for her daughter’s actions, in a way we’d never blame her father.
And the so-called journalists are hypocrites as well, if they ever had a family member or friend who has experienced this same situation or ever had premarital sex themselves.
Bunch of hypocrites. These are 2 separate issues.
1) Premarital sex
2) Teen pregnancy
Those that have had premarital sex themselves need to sit down, you have no room to talk. Your jugdements of this young girl are hypocritical.
Those condemning a pregnant teen, now making the right decision to let her child live, are disgusting.
Those judging the honesty of the Palin’s ad nauseum, meaning more than 1 “I'm outraged” post, come off as trolls.