Palin's daughter Bristol, 17, pregnant

The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
   

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us," the Palins' statement said.

"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," the Palins said.

The Palins asked the news media to respect the young couple's privacy.

"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates," the statement concluded.

-Reuters.

Contrast those statements with these:

"Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old," he [Obama] said. "I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."

Leftists will use this event to further their white trash meme so prevalent now on moonbat blogs and discussion sites.  Let's hope and pray that the Palin family is as tough as they've appeared thus far.

They're going to need to be.

And prayers for young Bristol.  Here's hoping she and the husband to be are indeed blessed not only by the love and support promised from Mom and Dad but by the arrival of the baby right around inauguration day.

May the Lord's hand be tangibly present in this circumstance.

               

Comments

[Mommynator]

Kids mess up. No kidding, they do. Any decent parent out there, no matter how loving and careful in raising their child, knows this. If it isn't one thing, it's another and it's part of growing up.

The thing is, what do parents do when their kids do mess up in such a supposedly spectacular way?

What they SHOULD do is what the Palins are doing - circling around their daughter and her boyfriend, and supporting their decision to marry and have that beautiful baby, and support the young parents as they transition at warp speed to the responsibilities of adulthood.

It can be done. It has been done.

This is called walking the talk.

[felix hominum]

It is amazing that one can equate a human being with a disease. To be "punished" with a baby? And then that is made logically equivalent to being "punished" by getting an STD?

Maybe this is why, for Aristotle, logic preceded ethics.

[JILL]

yea right. HE MEANT PUNISHING THEM BY NOT GIVING THEM INFORMATION, AND GIVING THEM THE FREEDOM TO MAKE A WISE INFORMATIVE DECISION. YOU NUT

[Rick]

Joe,

Honored by your dropping by. Thanks.

Jill,

That there's called spin. Stupid spin. Doesn't wash 'round these parts.

All,

Fuquod's a persistent pathological bastard. I've deleted more than I've allowed to stay on and he's using many IPs to do his dastardly deeds. But be patient. Soon enough, he'll go back to surfing porn and be done with us... for a while at least.

[Fuquod (masquerading as tim again)]

a husband that is a drunk, a teen daughter that's unmarried and pregnant- McSame is really pursuing the White Trash demographic.

add a couple dumb unmotivated sons and you're all in!

[felix hominum]

Jill: What Mr Obama is doing is arguing from cause to effect. The "lack of information" is, in his opinion, the cause. That may or may not be the case. What I am addressing is his desciption of the effect. The outcome, or effect is, in his opinion, either a baby or an STD. "Punishment" is generally a negative effect. Mr Obama attaches a moral equivalence between two effects of the "lack of information": "baby" and "STD", are simply two things side by side in the general category of "punishment".

I don't think a baby should be described as a punishment, as I subscirbe to the inherent dignity of every human being.

[Deist Everyman]

This comment made me laugh outloud

"May the Lord's hand be tangibly present in this circumstance."

The presence of the Lord's hand would be a case of too little too late in these circumstances. Clearly the Lord should have intervened in those seconds after ejaculation and before the egg was fertilized. Does this point to a viable Christian form of contraception. We can all pray for teenage spermatazoa to be struck down by the hand of god before they reach the egg - a sort of reproductive missile shield.

[Locutisprime]

Apparently stupidity is a sexually transmitted disease too. And we have an epidemic on our hands, by the looks of the comments of some condemning Sarah Palin as both a poor mother for having her Down child Trig and raising a daughter who respects life.

[Jones]

I'd like to send flowers to the Palins just to help cheer them up after all the crap they've been subjected to since last Friday.

[Anthony]

Sara Palin needs to work on her own home before stepping foot into the White house.

[Tim Chesterton]

Many years ago, a girl from my youth group in my first parish got pregnant at the age of seventeen, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She and her boyfriend eventually got married. This year, that baby girl herself got married. The whole family are committed Christians, and although they have been through some tough times over the years, their faith is obvious to everyone who knows them. The young couple made a poor choice, but God has brought great good out of it.

I will be praying the same thing for the Palin family and especially for their daughter and her boyfriend. Its a really dirty politics that exploits this sort of thing for partisan gain. I hope the Democrats will hav the grace to stay away from it.

[Mommynator]

Anthony - staying home as a full time mother does not guarantee sexual purity and abstinence before marriage. My niece, whose mother was always home, is a prime example.

Mr. Chesterton graces us with wisdom.

[Wayne]

The two articles on teenage pregnancy posted on Jeremiah Films are; nicedeb: "Bristol Palin Pregnant - I guess we're all supposed to be scandalized by this"

and Dakota Voice: Abortion Begins a Downward Spiral about a teenage pregnancy in which her parents did not support her having a child.

[felix hominum]

Rick:

Thanks for the kind words. I do swing by on every now and then, but I am not one to comment much - even on my own blog! I did think, however, that brutally honest would have a few things to say during these days of political conventions, and I was not disappointed! Blessings to you and yours.

[gwen]

Sarah Palin's daughter is living proof that abstinence-only education doesn't work. That's why Obama' philosohpy -- teaching morals while also providing information about protecting yourself -- actually makes a whole lot of sense. But you've ignored the essence of his statement. Also it's a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison to juxtapose Palin's "we're all supporting her" comments about her actually pregnant underage daughter, to Obama's comments about the HYPOTHETICAL unplanned pregnancy of his own underage daughter. "Punishment for a mistake" may not have been the best choice of words, but it's a reasonable description of the burden of unwanted teen pregnancy, no matter how beautiful we all agree the joys of motherhood are.

[Leslie]

Perhaps a dumb question on my part -- I know Sarah Palin is on the pro-abstinence side of the sex ed debate, but have they in fact adopted abstinence-only education in Alaskan schools?

Dear gwen:

Just because not all children taught abstinence abstain does not mean it does not work. There are plenty of families whose children abstain - for every child that does not, there are countless others who do.

Children are not animals or a monolithic group. They are fully capable of understanding things and many do.

Others become overwhelmed for one reason or another and do not abstain.

This mantra is tiresome and the people who keep chanting it idiotic.