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September 1, 2008, 12:16 PMPalin’s Daughter Pregnant
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will announce today that her 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant, Reuters reports. The announcement is “intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child,†says the news service.
In a statement, the Palin family says that Bristol Palin is “about five months pregnant†and that she intends to marry the father. “We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us," the Palins said in the statement. "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.â€
The Palin family asked the media to “respect our daughter†and her privacy. According to the Reuters report, John McCain’s campaign was aware of the pregnancy when the Arizona senator selected Palin to be his running mate last week.
I am from Alaska, so I get to see stuff about Palin first hand before it leaks to mass media. The word that (her daughter was pregnant) had been out for almost a month before it hit the news.
Anyways, here's what an Alaskan thinks about Sarah Palin:
She's a far right wing republican. She's also an evangelist, someone who preaches, and tells other people how to live.
If she gets elected here's what you can expect to happen.
Books in the library would be censored, our rights to reading what we want to will be taken away. (Anyone up-to-date on the librarian incident?)
Women's rights would be taken away. Women will no longer have a choice in conception matters. She's pro-life, even if the woman was raped or the woman could die from having a baby--ectopic pregnancy, anyone? Birth control will probably be limited. She is also against same sex marriages. More rights will be taken away. Sex education would no longer be taught in school. Speaking of school, she would be for teaching Creationism, which is anti-evolution.
I am not really for taking away people's rights. I don't think it's fair. Even if I don't believe in some of the choices people make, it doesn't mean I have to control them. Why have we fought for rights in the past, if people just want to take them away? It all seems so backwards. I also don't agree with religion and politics. It's not fair to America, we have freedom of religion, but our government is about to be tied down to one religion's views.
Palin had asked students to pray for our troops. That's fine--(I have prayed for our troops), but then she says God put them on that mission--is she saying that God talks directly to President Bush? That God okay'd us to go to Iraq?
Despite that she wants to take away freedom of choice and control people's lives...
I admire her because she's so gutsy. Palin is smart and has charisma, lots of Alaskans LOVE her. (She's very popular here because we're a red state.) I just don't agree with controlling people's lives, just because we don't agree with their personal choices.