Bristol's Choice

Have McCain/Palin REALLY said that women only have one choice? It seems to me that when Gov. Palin was asked, on two separate ocassions, to sign legislation limiting abortion rights she tabled them and worked on issues effecting the economy instead. Her first veto as Governor killed a bill denying gays their rights. If there's anything I've learned from living in Washington, D.C. for 20 years is that it's what the politician does not what she says. I am a pro-choice Hillary supporter who will be voting for McCain and Palin because I think they will bring reform and change and I am not worried about Roe v. Wade being dismantled. There will be an overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress who will push back on far-right judges picks (if indeed, McCain puts up those type of judges at all). McCain has earned the right to be president Barack Obama has not.

how dare anyone tell anyone else what to do with they're bodies or futures. thats why the pilgrims came here and started colonizing...freedom. thats why the constitution was written, to ensure that all people living in america have the freedom, and infinately more important, THE RIGHT, to choose and not be chosen for. its easy for sarah pailin to say its ok for her daughter to have the baby cuz she on a nice government payroll and generally well off finacially and able to support her daughter. what about a young girl thats rapped, lives with abusive and drug addict parents,and even does drugs herself? the people making these decisions arent living out the lives of the women looking for an abortion. what if a father rapes his daughter? great, lets bring an innocent child into a world of molestation and violence. or on the other hand lets give that child up to people that arent its parents, and have them grow up never knowing who mom and dad are and deal with depression and other detatchment related phsycological problems. sarah palin is an idiot. and so is anyone against abortion. 90% of people against abortion have never had to make the decision themselves, are republican, or hardcore christians and it disgusts me to see others pushing they're beleifs onto innocent women and families. so they are 100% for abstinence based education (which has been proven not to work), against giving out contraceptives in schools, and against abortion? lets just all have anonymous sexual partners at young ages and see what happens to the world based on that kind of tripe. fools. let people choose, that is what america was founded on...THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF!! for the record, i marched on the RNC everyday in St. Paul for various causes and am proud to say i stood up against 200 SWAT officers, tear gas, flash grenades, and billy clubs for my rights as an American. and i think more people should do the same...

How ironic that you use the phrase "hell-bent on playing God" for the abortion issue. Maybe you are not thinking about the "hell" a fetus endures when their body is suctioned out of a mother's uterus. But that doesn't surprise me since you have already selfishly admitted that aborting your child was to, "not ruin my life for the sake of an unborn fetus." You are the epitome of the selfish hedonism that has provoked some states, like South Dakota, to implement restrictions on elective abortions. You are, unfortunately, not alone in your selfishness: less than 1% of the abortions in America are for rape or incest; the remaining 99% are for reasons as frivolous as the baby "doesn't fit into my lifestyle." Regarding the "playing God" part: if your parents were "Christians," then perhaps they have never read the words of the Holy Bible's weeping prophet Jeremiah 1:5 who relates how God feels about the unborn fetus: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee..." There should never be a time when inconvenience takes precedence over the life of an unborn child, for the unborn are a fulfillment of God's purpose, knowledge and will. For people like you, committing an infanticide should at least require a little bit of inconvenience to perpetuate the scourge and tragedy to America that abortion has become over the past 35 years.

The sluttiest girl I ever met was from Alaska. She said women up there couldn't help themselves because they were outnumbered by men 3:1, and the guys were really aggressive.

Why Democrats are IDIOTS!


First - Obama is an idiot and you are too for following him BECAUSE his higher taxes will cause business owners to raise PRICES so YOU ultimately pay the tax. Secondly by reducing money to invest there WILL be fewer jobs! Also his health insurance cost will be about $11,000 per employee which will LOSE jobs.

Second - Rich people are SMART. There is $11 TRILLION of US rich money OFFSHORE! Under Obama this will SKY ROCKET. I'll be one of the first to move part of my business offshore to reduce taxes. Why should I support the unworking poor who are lazy and stupid or buy health insurance for idiots who didn't go to college and thus have crappy jobs? No I'll just go offshore and keep my taxes LESS than I'm paying now! I paid $107,000 in taxes last year and this year it will be around $150,000. Under Obama I will structure it so I pay about $80,000 in US tax as MY PERSONAL PROTEST to his unfair tax policies.
The FAIR amount breaks down to $9,600 PER PERSON so most of his supporters pay ZERO TAXES, they are a huge drag on the economy and want welfare hand outs. Not by me!

His environmental policies will lose and push another 2 to 5 million jobs outside the US.

Higher inflation due to businesses increasing prices to cover their huge new taxes will be resolved by the Federal Reserve by RAISING INTEREST RATES. So you dumb morons will pay MORE for your house payments! That could easily be $200 to $400 per month for a $200,000 loan!

So good luck trying the Radical Obama's crazy plan. The rich will KEEP getting richer in SAFE OFFSHORE accounts and money will be invested in OTHER countries and create JOBS in OTHER countries.

hahaha I almost HOPE Obama gets elected to punish you dumb morons for voting for him. When I drive by you at 100mph in my beautiful 335 BMW convirtible and your car is broken down at the side of the road because you can't afford the $7 per gallon gas Obama's idiotic energy policies helped create I WILL LAUGH MY RICH ASS OFF !!!!!

If I have a three year old child, and decide that I want the kid dead, am I allowed to do it? No, that would be murder obviously. Our society has all sorts of rules in place, laws we call them, that override our right to decide for ourselves what is permissible and what isn't. From conception on, that is from the time the DNA code of the individual is finalized, all that is left for the individual is growth and aging until death. That is science, not opinion. If we want abortion in the CCountry fine, but lets call it what it is, Baby killing. Maybe baby killing is necessary, but let's be honest about what we are doing, at least.

I just want you smarty pants out there to tell me where Palin is going to sent her critters to school if she becomes VP? I know all the headmasters in D.C. and there is not a single private school that will accept them.. For one they don't cook moose.

Okay. Rove wins again. We are preparing to pick a president on the issue of abortion. Again.

Roe states "the State does have an important and legitimate interest in preserving and protecting the health of the pregnant woman ... and that it has still another important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life." Advances in in-utero treatment and therapy push the "potentiality" issue and State "legitimate interest" earlier into the pregnancy. A woman's right to privacy and health do not supercede, but counter-balance the State's interest.

State interests versus individual rights evolves from case to case while viability increases. Federal mandates do not allow for differing community standards of morality which affect individual choice. Just as individual morality differs from case to case, community definitions of State interest differ from state to state.

The pendulum swing of foundational individual rights in Roe requires a counter swing for states' rights and community definitions of "State interest."

The imposition of a rigid national rule rather than the allowance of regional differences has turned abortion into a polarizing wedge issue which unnecessarily distracts voters' attentions from issues of great national interest during Presidential campaigns.

I agree that this young lady's life-changing pregnancy is her business. BUT I can't help but wonder if the GOP's reaction to this teenage pregnancy would have been the same were it Obama's daughter? I think we can all agree, regardless of political leanings, that there is a great deal of hypocrisy coming from the GOP.

It continues to amaze me how threatened you, Opra, Ellen D, Katie C, The View, etc. and every other female Democrat surrogate are by Sarah Palin. After all these years of talk by the feminist movement, and now we have a female who has done something and delivered as a productive member of society. Not just talked about it, i.e. Hillary, Nancy P, etc. Her "choice" to have a special needs child and her daughter's "choice" to have her baby are somehow wrong in your eyes. You and your buds noted above are the epitomy of hipocrisy. It is sad and laughable at the same time.

Palin's decision to give birth to a Down-syndrome child was a crime; she not only trapped a human soul in a life-long jail but also drained important resources from the society. Bristol's desire to have free sex with wild boys violated the Bible. Is God damning America?

"Palin signals fewer choices for women."

Yeah, like, for instance, women apparently can't choose to be conservative.

Apparently they can accept VP nominations ... IF they have a (D) after their name. Otherwise they should stay home and take care of their kids.

Maybe some women are tired of being told what they are supposed to choose.