Bristol's Choice

Dahlia, why don't you speak for yourself and let others speak for themselves. Are you a journalist or an Obama surrogate?

God, so-called pro-choice women like Dahlia Lithwick should be honest and call themselves pro-abortion or 24/7-abortion women. Apparently, there is no choice involved at all. You should almost always have an abortion if you are a woman. If you are 17 and chose life, it must be because your mom is pro-life and not because of your own beliefs. If you have a baby with a defect, if you chose life your are a fundamentalist wacko.

It's pretty clear its people like Dahlia that limit choices. Have an abortion or be called out by the the fascism of the left.

Thanks for making it clear in your article.

Palin is pro-life, even in the case of rape, and opposes same-sex marriage and favors the discussion of creationism alongside evolution in schools. But she hasn't pushed for legislative changes in any of those areas.

The Associated Press reported Sept 3: "Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have creationism taught in them. ... It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans."

She even vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships because she said it was unconstitutional.

That says plenty. It shows she knows the limits of government, and believes that government isn't there to tell us what to do.

Obama seems more inclined to use government to control what choices we have than Palin does. Check out HR 800 and see what the democrats are up to while we're all talking about Palin. They are trying to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections. How unAmerican is THAT?????

Proposed laws allowing medical professionals to refuse treatment for religious reasons show how bereft of principle the religious right has become. If they feel so strongly that they refuse to provide medical treatment then let them stand by their principles and face the consequences of their actions. They constantly scream for others to face the music, yet they whine and complain if they have to suffer in the least for their principles.

Legislating banning of abortion is just the first step in taking back america! First we control reproductive rights, then we can legislate lower wages for women to help business make a good profit to help the economy, and eventually legislate removing the right to vote for women. Face it, anybody who is too stupid to fight for the right to control their own body does not deserve the right to make decisions that will impact the security of the country.

Bristol had every right to choose and she did choose...to have unprotected sex. Why can't people just realize that decisions lead to consequences and those consequences have to be lived with. If you don't want a pregnancy, don't have unprotected sex. It is that simple. Why do we have to resort to killing what many people regard as at least a potential human being in order to eliminate the natural consequences of our bad decisions. Part of being free to choose is dealing with the results of the decisions we do make.

So how can you be a Pro-Lifer, siteing Christianity as the impotes behind that stance; then support the death penalty and war? Explain to me where you see the ambiguity in "Thou shall not kill.". Site for me the section in the Bible where it explains those occurences for ignoring "Thou shall not kill", and justifies killing.

I don't like the idea of abortion; I like to think that adoption is always the better choice. However, I'm not a female, and I dare not tell a pregnant woman what she can and cannot do.

"Which brings us to disturbing new regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services; rules that ostensibly seek to protect the "right of conscience" of pharmacists and other health workers who don't want to participate in abortions. "

Do you hear yourself? You're saying that if you want to be a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist the government can force you to participate in something that you consider to be murder?

And you're disturbed by an effort to protect them from the coercive arm of the government?

So you're only really "pro choice" when you are ok with the choice being made.

I gotta wonder what your position is on concientious objectors in the Military.

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You missed the memo: Audi is the new car of choice for conservative republicans who can't spell.

Choice? That is laughable. Bristol Palin was not given a choice. And the irony is that if McCain and Sarah Palin had their way, NO WOMAN would ever have a "choice".

" When was the last time any president helped make government smaller? I don't see the Republicans doing it. Reagan created just as many regs as he removed, "

But by Liberal logic, since he didn't increase the size of government as much as it was on track to be increased, he cut government, right?

I mean, since Palin "only" increased funding for pregnant teens by 354% instead of 454%, that's a "cut" to the Left, right? So by Reagan's zero sum (by your calculation) net regulation gain, that's a drop. QED ;-)