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Bristol Palin says abstinence best path for teens
AP ^ | 2009-05-06

Posted on 05/06/2009 9:25:14 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

NEW YORK (AP) — Unwed mother Bristol Palin said Wednesday that abstinence is a realistic way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy — a view not shared by the father of her infant son.

Palin, the 19-year old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she wishes she'd waited to have sex.

Bristol Palin was in New York Wednesday to help promote National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day.

In the interview, Palin said abstinence is the safest and best choice for teens.

"Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way you can effectively, 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy," she said.

Palin's comments are a turnaround from what she told Fox News in February, that teens should avoid sex, but abstinence is "not realistic at all."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: abstinence; bristolpalin; levijohnston; palin; prolife; realconservatives; sarahpalin; teenpregnancy
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To: mbraynard

I saw the interview during which Bristol Palin made the “not realistic” remark and I think it has been misconstrued. After Bristol said that abstinence was the best way, she looked scared and clearly was afraid the reporter — I think it was great Van Sustern — would respond, “Hey, you didn’t abstain...” Bristol’s quickly adding that abstinence would not be realistic seemed to me an embarrassed concession of her own fallibility, not a policy endorsement.


21 posted on 05/06/2009 9:45:30 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: rabscuttle385

“...a view not shared by the father of her infant son.”

Translation “I wanna get some and I don’t care about no abortion...”


22 posted on 05/06/2009 9:45:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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To: Antoninus
So you think she's just shilling for dollars and doesn't really believe this?

She believed something different on other occasions. Are you saying that she had a sudden epiphany? And what is she supposed to say? Unwed parenthood is a mistake? Having a child at 18 was a mistake? She wishes that she hadn't? And then introduce her son as "the mistake I wish I hadn't had?" She is neither a good spokesperson or role model for an organization teaching absitinence. She can be a role model for unwed parents and single mothers if she handles herself right, but not for abstinence.

23 posted on 05/06/2009 9:45:53 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: CASchack

AmericanPravda never uses this term when discussing the latest Hollywood bastard children.


24 posted on 05/06/2009 9:46:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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To: rabscuttle385
Who among us did not believe that ‘it wouldn’t happen to me’, when we were young?

There are a few. a rare few. Especially since the birth control pill of the 60’s became prevalent.

False thinking, and an absence of faith or even knowledge of faith. Plus immoral TV programing, in the house every day and night.

A sad truth.

25 posted on 05/06/2009 9:47:00 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: CASchack

You mean like most of the new Hollywood moms?

and here I thought it was cool to be “unwed” and breeding...


26 posted on 05/06/2009 9:47:58 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: TBP

Yes, she would have been better off to practice abstinence, but she didn’t, and now she can use her experience to push home the fact why abstinence is the only birth control that will work 100% of the time.
As for what the AP article says, I don’t get how telling others about abstinence while realizing it may not be all that realistic is contradicting what she said on fox. At least she’s trying to get her message out, and if some of the kids get it, then something is better than nothing.


27 posted on 05/06/2009 9:47:59 AM PDT by psjones (u)
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To: mbraynard

Well remember she’s had a few more months of sleepless nights, dirty diapers, spit up and possibly colic. IOW reality has set in.


28 posted on 05/06/2009 9:48:31 AM PDT by CajunConservative (F U 0bama)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Ya ever been a 16-17 year old girl ???

I'm the father of an 18 year old daughter, who not only graduates from high school next week but isn't pregnant. I'd say she's a better role model for abstinence than Bristol Palin is.

29 posted on 05/06/2009 9:49:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: muawiyah

Schools and medical professionals have signed onto the sex positive agenda to encourage them to be sexually active.

SEICUS, Kinsey, Reich, and feminists push for such a worldview.

There is a “Just Say Yes” campaign.

http://www.positive.org/JustSayYes/index.html


30 posted on 05/06/2009 9:49:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Liberals are so upset over torture, why did they mock John McCains stiff arms during the campaign)
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To: Non-Sequitur; Antoninus

Read post 21.


31 posted on 05/06/2009 9:50:58 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (To view the FR@Alabama ping list, click on my profile!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Ya ever been a 16-17 year old girl ???”

What, like it’s harder to say “no” when you’re a girl? Ha!

Girls don’t have testosterone; not very many of them, I’d bet, masturbate several times a day; very few of them think about sex once every ten seconds or so; and how many, every time they talk to the opposite sec (and not necessarily an attractive member of the opposite sex) look for any sign whatsoever that they could possibly have sex with them at some time in the (not necessarily near) future?


32 posted on 05/06/2009 9:53:45 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Non-Sequitur
Are you saying that she had a sudden epiphany?

Are you saying she didn't?

And what is she supposed to say?

How about -- "I love my child very much, but it was a mistake for me to bring him into this world without a husband. Every child deserves a mom and a dad. I was foolish to think that I could engage in sex acts outside of marriage with no consequences. Now, my child will not have the benefit of living with his mom and dad together, and that is a shame."

You guys that lambaste people for trying to turn the negatives in their lives into positives perplex me. Truly, you do.
33 posted on 05/06/2009 9:54:46 AM PDT by Antoninus (Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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To: CASchack

“How many years has it been since the AP used this term?”

LOL. Good point.


34 posted on 05/06/2009 9:57:49 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: mbraynard
"Maybe Bristol and Megan McCain can remember that they are to public policy as Paris Hilton is to Hotel Management.

Amen. I wasn't that much older than Amy Carter when Jimmah made the "Nuclear Proliferation" statement that he attributed to Amy. Even at the time, I thought to myself, "Why would anyone care what the kid of a politician thought about anything". I still hold that belief.

I don't care if it's a Kennedy, McCain, Carter, Bush or now a Palin. Family members of politicians, and especially teenage kids should be seen and not heard. When Bristol Palin has some life experience, other than giving birth; perhaps graduating from college, or maybe even graduate school or working or starting her own company or some other such acheivement, perhaps then she'll have something to add to the public discourse.

Until then, she should take Meghan McCain and run back the obscurity from which they were plucked.

35 posted on 05/06/2009 10:01:59 AM PDT by Big_Monkey (Flubama - bringing disease everywhere he goes.)
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To: rabscuttle385

LOL,


36 posted on 05/06/2009 10:06:54 AM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: rabscuttle385
Didn't I read someplace that during the campaign Todd, Sarah and their family moved to Anchorage from Wassilla to get their family away from “influences”(like Bristol's sperm “donor”)?
37 posted on 05/06/2009 10:20:04 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: org.whodat

You can teach your children all the right things but that doesn’t mean they will always follow your teaching. As Christians we can pray and do all that we know to do and they still have a choice. Many of them make the wrong choice. I have read that a very large number of “True Love Waits” kids don’t wait. I admire those parent’s that do the right thing and their kids make big mistakes but parent’s just pick up and go on. It’s not easy.


38 posted on 05/06/2009 10:21:16 AM PDT by NativeTxn
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To: rabscuttle385

Todd Palin says (in hind sight), “Putting the fear of God in your daughter’s new boyfriend is the best path for dads.”


39 posted on 05/06/2009 10:24:53 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Congrats to your daughter! I’m one of those who said “no” until I was married. I knew I could never support a baby on my own and didn’t want to chance it. It isn’t rocket science. Just a little common sense is all that’s needed.


40 posted on 05/06/2009 10:29:45 AM PDT by derllak
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