Bristol's Choice

So what's your point? Nothing new here. Should we the people as a society decide that abortion is abhorrent or should each individual be able to make that decision. No woman is an island.

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, and every president since has expanded government. We're getting a bigger government from the next president, no matter what your ideology may tell you.

This is not about abortion really. Frankly, the Dems do not want strong families because strong families have values. They think in terms of cause and affect. They live life. Ever since the Great Society they have been weakening the American family so they can "save" them. Plato said this, "This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears he is a protector." We are on a fast slide to Socialism, which will never work because man, in his selfishness and pride, can not handle power. Percy Shelley, 1813, said, "Power, like a desolation pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches." It is exactly what the framers of the Consitution were trying to avoid. Our government is too big, too powerful (check out all the land seized from people, it will astound you) and too ineffective. Former U.S. Treasure Secretary William Simon writes in, "A Time For Action,"---"The bureaucrat's first objective, of course, is preservation of his job---provided by the big-government system, at taxpayer's expense...Whether real-world problems get solved or not is of secondary importance. It doesn't take much cynicism, in fact, to see that the bureaucrats have a vested interest in not having problems solved. If the problems did not exist (or had not been invented), there would be no reason for the bureaucrat to have a job." Vote to make government smaller, leaner, and accountable.

Wow--I can not believe the number of comments on this article. When I was in school many years ago I was so saddened by the societies that killed their babies or had human sacrificies. And yet that is the society that we have become, only we don't leave the baby in the woods or put a knife to its throat on an altar. Instead we have a nice Doctor in a white coat perform the deed. We sacrifice our children on our altar of selfishness. Partial birth abortion is barbaric, period!! If a baby is born alive after an abortion we leave it to die. This is the choice the Dems have given us in our modern day. But that is the only one. If the baby is born than suddenly they want to take away any choices. They are furiously opposed to school choice. Parents are not smart enough to choose, I guess. And now they want to intice families to give the government run schools their babies as soon as they're born, and raise taxes to do it.

Too bad that all Americans cannot think like liberals. Just kill the baby already!!! Be it partial-birth abortion or the plain ole regular abortion. Can't you people see how perfectly moral and normal this is. What are these repugnant conservatives thinking? How can they ever argue for protecting the rights of a poor, innocent, unborn baby?

I may not be the most astute observer of presidential politics. I voted for the first and last time in 1984. I looked at the choices carefully back then and thought long and hard about campaign promises and programs. In the end, when my vote was cast I felt the need for a shower. There is a reason that big business and big oil give equally to the dems and repubs. They know what so do not. Only a whore can rise through the process to become president. I am perplexed this time however by Ms. Palin she has strong views and principles that seem unasaliable. The fact that people like Ms. Lithwick keep bringing up nit picky crap like the use of the word c"choice" at it relates to her daughter not having an abortion makes me wonder if this woman is not a new breed. The fear that those on the left, and even some on the right, makes me wonder if I should not dust of my voter registration card once again.

As Obama would say, "No, no, no, no, no." By your logic, parents shouldn't tell their 17 years olds not to have sex. You would say they should have the right to decide. But parenting people less than 18 means trying to talk them into a lot of healthy behaviors, from brushing their teach to opting out of an abortion. That's your right and your responsibility as a parent. Once the kids are of age -- which seems older and older in our doting culture -- then you just hope a big part of your input over the years took.

Dear Dahlia Lithwick - Keep those eyes of yours closed, it's working for you, and me! You are quite possibly looking at Republican presidents for the next twelve maybe sixteen years and you don't see it coming. The is great!

Many girls and women who choose this particular medical procedure are not fully informed of the physical and emotional risks or potential side-effects when making the "choice". In other words, they are not allowed to have "informed consent" on this procedure, evidently because it might discourage them from "choosing" to have the abortion. Is that pro-choice? People have the right to know what many women and girls have suffered physically and emotionally after "choosing" an abortion. The side-effects of this medical procedure are real. If a Dr. performed any other procedure without giving the patient full information of other alternatives or the potential side-effects beforehand, that Dr. would have her license revoked and worse. You can't pretend to protect a woman's right to choose an abortion by withholding necessary information about risks that would inform her choice. Because of the so called "pro-choice" movement, the right to make an informed choice has actually been taken away.

Ah, the "in the Tank for Obama" media is still lying.

A woman that went from PTA to Governor in 10 years (or whatever) is 'limiting' woman.

Only Newsweek (or Time, or NYT) would try to peddle such a story. Whatever happened to REAL journalism?

If the Democrats are truly concerned and up in arms with the mantra of "women should be allowed to do what they wish with their bodies," I await their party platform of legalizing prostitution.

How can this big bad mean country take the stance that women cannot choose to earn a living by using their body?

I mean, if we want to allow women to do what they wish with their bodies.

I await Obama and Biden to start pushing the legalization of prostitution on their campaign stops.

Lets pretend that the author is actually more concerned about Bristol Palin than Bristols own parents. But the author is not concerned with Bristol she is concerned with her own agenda.

Anyone recall the following: Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day (Democrat philosophy). Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime (Republican philosophy). Let's get back to teaching instead of hand-outs for all.

If an adult should have input into the pregnancy of Bristol Palin should it be Sarah and Todd Palin or this Author? Or some court? Or some agency that would take her accross state lines for an abortion without consent or notification of Parents??

Well, it's clear we know one thing: this writer wants to be able to force medical workers to help kill children in the womb or be fired! Then she goes on to talk about how "extreme" Palin is. Writing like that takes guts!

Killing should never be a "choice".