Worthy Quote: Jeneau Empire Editorial
Posted by: BookGirl on: September 1, 2008
“Abstinence may be a laudable goal, but failing to educate teenagers about how to protect themselves from disease or unintended pregnancy is tragically misguided. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, abstinence-only programs do not reduce sexual activity, teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. Every day 10,000 U.S. teens contract a sexually transmitted disease, 2,400 get pregnant and 55 contract HIV. Unintended pregnancies happen to Republicans, Democrats and people of all faiths.”
– An editorial that ran in the Jeneau Empire, a newspaper in Alaska, in response to their Governor-turned-Veep-candidate Sarah Palin’s extreme anti-abortion stance. She is against abortion in EVERY case: from rape to choice. Currently, her 17 year old daughter is pregnant and is set to marry the baby’s father. Read more on Sarah Palin’s abortion stance HERE.
2 Responses to "Worthy Quote: Jeneau Empire Editorial"
September 8, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I’m stuck. I mean, by definition, life begins at conception. This is a biological ceratinty. The cells start splitting and muliplying, yadda yadda. The questions is, when does that life become protected by humans rights laws? After a day, a week or a trimester? (whatever they are). Who is to decide that? And this is my problem. So until somebody can offer that answer, I have to say that I will err on the side of caution, and say that life is protected by human rights laws at conception. Doing so still leaves you in total control, free to choose…which method of contraception to use.
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September 2, 2008 at 12:54 am
I think what most people are happy about here, or at least Republicans, is that she didn’t change her stance now because it was personal. I’m a pro-choice conservative. BUT I do think there is a limit on when an abortion can be done. Only in the first trimester. If there’s even a chance that there can be a mistake and result in a live birth there is NO WAY an abortion should be made. That’s infanticide to me.