Posted on 11/21/2008 9:21:16 AM PST by freespirited
Over at National Review's "The Corner," K-Lo calls it a "cultural indicator:" Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., will likely become Congress's first unwed mother, or single mom, if you prefer.
As reported by the Washington Post's Reliable Source, Sanchez -- with help from her "unofficial fiancé" Jim Sullivan -- is "poised to become only the eighth congresswoman in history to have a baby while in office -- and the first to do so while single....The two are 'unofficially engaged,' she says, and looking to buy a house. They will plan a wedding later -- but at her age, she says, planning a baby couldn't wait."
The Los Angeles Times was the first to announce the news to the world. "Twenty years ago, it simply wouldn't have been possible -- pregnant, single and a member of Congress?" wrote Patt Morrison. "Oh, the scandal! But Hester Prynne has morphed into Juno MacGuff, the culture wars have been fought to a truce of exhaustion, and 'unwed mother' has been recast as 'single mom.'"
Says Sanchez: "I'm hopeful there won't be this sort of ugliness about something that for me is really a blessed event."
But Morrison asks, "how might Sanchez's pregnancy play out in her district, which is 61 percent Latino? The national Latina teenage pregnancy rate is twice the country's average. Could a teenager point to her and say, 'If she can do it, why can't I?'
"The differences, Sanchez thinks, are substantial, and that's a big teachable moment. She's not a 'surprised pregnant teenager,' 15 or 16, poor, jobless, a dropout. 'I'm established in my life. I have a career. I'm financially stable. I have a loving, committed partner. This is something that was planned, not something that was accidental.' Sanchez is 39 and divorced, and early this year, her doctor told her that 'if your intention is to become a mother, I wouldn't put it off.' So she and Sullivan didn't. They haven't yet set a wedding date. As he told me, 'We have the rest of our lives to get engaged and married -- we don't have the rest of our lives' for Sanchez to become pregnant."
I question her judgement as congresswoman if she doesn’t know enough to use condoms.
Reportedly May 21.
Wisdom of the day.
Wonder what her opinion of Bristol Palin was.
He had to be on a 5 day binge.
“Unoffial fiance”=baby daddy
The Hubbeer Goggles.
So she’ll drop one from the bombay?
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