Bristol did the wrong thing - Ted Rall

[kskiska]

NEW YORK--You don't need a rich imagination to picture the scene. In the Alaska governor's mansion, a pair of parents and their visibly pregnant teenage daughter sit on a dead bear sprawled across a couch they had to have shipped because there isn't an Ethan Allen in Anchorage. On a second sofa, on the opposite side of a glass coffee table festooned by the exoskeleton of a giant crab, fidget a second set of parents and their son, a.k.a. The Extremely Nervous Boyfriend. Heads of dead animals line the walls.

"Levi, Levi, Levi." The governor pauses, reveling in the others' discomfort. Moments like this are how she earned the sobriquet Barracuda.

She leans in. "You little s---. You knocked up my daughter. Do you know how close your little sexcapade came to screwing up my plan for global domination? Now you're going to do the right thing."

A few days later, Extremely Nervous Boyfriend blinks under the bright lights of a stage in St. Paul, elevated to the even more challenging role of America's Unhappiest 18-Year-Old. I met a guy the night before he was executed. Levi Johnston had the same look in his eyes.

Sarracuda's 17-year-old fry was nearly as miserable. "Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby," the McCain-Palin campaign claimed in its press release. Did the daughter of the mother of all anti-choice governors really have a choice? Well...

(snip)

In reality, Bristol is doing the wrong thing. She's having the kid. She's marrying the father. Three lives will likely be destroyed.

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[blueknight]

1. hey du

we need to rate this story on yahoo!

[kristopher]

2. Rated on yahoo and rec here. nt

[Oldtimeralso]

3. K & R #5

Did Sarah show him the picture that is on the cover of Newsweek?

[tavalon]

4. Difficult to agree with the compulsory abortion, but the rest is spot on

[JeanGrey]

5. THIS KIND OF SHIT IS KILLING US!!!!

Abortion should be "mandatory" for pregnant teens? What the fuck? What happened to choice?
Do you really think this kind of writing is going to help us?

We really want to lose this election I am now convinced.

[Demeter]

7. I think the argument is that Bristol Should Have the Choice

and that the parents should butt out. I'd say there should be an injunction, and Bristol be offered a safe house away from her nutcase parents, but that's because I have a sense of self-worth and justice.

[JeanGrey]

8. An injunction? Are you joking?

[reaganbites]

10. I agree with you - this is over the top

This will not help with reasonable people who want to see fewer abortions. I want to see fewer abortions even though I want women to have the option. It really shouldn't be birth control though.

[CJCRANE]

6. They should have abstained from sex or used contraception

but instead they had sex and abstained from contraception.

"Abstinence only" is a joke in this case - Bristol Palin was 16 which means that she literally couldn't control herself to abstain at all as she had sex at the first opportunity.

[fed_up_mother]

9. This SHIT has to stop!

Whatever happened to "choice?"

And some people think our side doesn't have extremists?

[reaganbites]

11. Also

This guy needs to think before he writes. Obama's mom would have been required to get an abortion under his criteria. What a doofus!

[XanaDUer]

12. Is this piece a satire?

He has problems with well-off married couples who abort for frivolous reasons? :eyes: