Posted on 05/06/2009 9:25:14 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
NEW YORK (AP) — Unwed mother Bristol Palin said Wednesday that abstinence is a realistic way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy — a view not shared by the father of her infant son.
Palin, the 19-year old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she wishes she'd waited to have sex.
Bristol Palin was in New York Wednesday to help promote National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day.
In the interview, Palin said abstinence is the safest and best choice for teens.
"Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way you can effectively, 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy," she said.
Palin's comments are a turnaround from what she told Fox News in February, that teens should avoid sex, but abstinence is "not realistic at all."
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"abstinance is not realistic at all."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eixcsj7FI6I
Maybe Bristol and Megan McCain can remember that they are to public policy as Paris Hilton is to Hotel Management.
Bristol is right and would have been better off to follow her own advice.
Ahhh...experience can be a difficult tutor...
Unwed mother Bristol Palin said Wednesday that abstinence is a realistic way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy — a view not shared by the father of her infant son.
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I wonder is the stud talked her into sex...
having a baby makes you grow up fast (for moms)
What she should say is “Look at the dirtbag I am stuck with for the rest of my life attached through our child”
Best the Governor get that girl a bodyguard real quick. It's all over the Cable Snooze Works today ~ the Leftwingtards are screaming and screeching about it.
In fact, I just watched two ol'gals on CNN News who more or less said "abstinence won't work because everybody knows the stork brings babies" ~ gad.
Good for her.
That's because the bills for this tour are being paid by an abstinence only organization. You say what they expect you to say.
There are some people on these threads who will still say that she should marry him just because of the baby. Talk about a lifetime prison sentence. If he is speaking of her this way now, what would he treat her like in private?
Ha!
...”she wishes she’d waited to have sex”...
But know that she has started.....just sayin’
In that case, she'll also make a good politician, like her mom.
She’s hot then she’s cold...she’s yes than she’s no...
Make up your mind Bristol
Better yet, stay out of the public eye - that’s a better idea
And in the immortal words of another former first lady, she should have just said, "No."
“Unwed mother..”
How many years has it been since the AP used this term? She is not news. This yet another back-door slam on her mother.
Ya ever been a 16-17 year old girl ???
“abstinance is not realistic at all.”
Here’s what really gets me about libs. Who the hell cares if it’s not realistic? That’s not the point. Who says we have to be realistic? Some acts, like sex, have bad (or unfortunate, you could say) consequences. Being realistic—teaching sex-ed, handing out condoms, making available the morning-after-pill, offering abortions on demand— hasn’t seemed to work according to the statistics. Then again, correlation isn’t causation.
The point is, there are two major strategies for forestalling the ill-effects of sex. One is to level with kids, rap with ‘em, get inside their heads, and otherwise persuade them to use good judgement. The other is to use moral force, to define teen sex deviant behavior and shame kids into protecting themselves. Doesn’t matter at all that the latter is “unrealistic”. It’s unrealistic to think we can stop robbery and murder, yet hardly anyone (maybe William Ayers) says we should define murder down. Different strategies, that’s all.
I saw the interview during which Bristol Palin made the “not realistic†remark and I think it has been misconstrued. After Bristol said that abstinence was the best way, she looked scared and clearly was afraid the reporter — I think it was great Van Sustern — would respond, “Hey, you didn’t abstain...†Bristol’s quickly adding that abstinence would not be realistic seemed to me an embarrassed concession of her own fallibility, not a policy endorsement.
“...a view not shared by the father of her infant son.”
Translation “I wanna get some and I don’t care about no abortion...”
She believed something different on other occasions. Are you saying that she had a sudden epiphany? And what is she supposed to say? Unwed parenthood is a mistake? Having a child at 18 was a mistake? She wishes that she hadn't? And then introduce her son as "the mistake I wish I hadn't had?" She is neither a good spokesperson or role model for an organization teaching absitinence. She can be a role model for unwed parents and single mothers if she handles herself right, but not for abstinence.
AmericanPravda never uses this term when discussing the latest Hollywood bastard children.
There are a few. a rare few. Especially since the birth control pill of the 60’s became prevalent.
False thinking, and an absence of faith or even knowledge of faith. Plus immoral TV programing, in the house every day and night.
A sad truth.
You mean like most of the new Hollywood moms?
and here I thought it was cool to be “unwed” and breeding...
Yes, she would have been better off to practice abstinence, but she didn’t, and now she can use her experience to push home the fact why abstinence is the only birth control that will work 100% of the time.
As for what the AP article says, I don’t get how telling others about abstinence while realizing it may not be all that realistic is contradicting what she said on fox. At least she’s trying to get her message out, and if some of the kids get it, then something is better than nothing.
Well remember she’s had a few more months of sleepless nights, dirty diapers, spit up and possibly colic. IOW reality has set in.
I'm the father of an 18 year old daughter, who not only graduates from high school next week but isn't pregnant. I'd say she's a better role model for abstinence than Bristol Palin is.
Schools and medical professionals have signed onto the sex positive agenda to encourage them to be sexually active.
SEICUS, Kinsey, Reich, and feminists push for such a worldview.
There is a “Just Say Yes” campaign.
http://www.positive.org/JustSayYes/index.html
Read post 21.
“Ya ever been a 16-17 year old girl ???”
What, like it’s harder to say “no” when you’re a girl? Ha!
Girls don’t have testosterone; not very many of them, I’d bet, masturbate several times a day; very few of them think about sex once every ten seconds or so; and how many, every time they talk to the opposite sec (and not necessarily an attractive member of the opposite sex) look for any sign whatsoever that they could possibly have sex with them at some time in the (not necessarily near) future?
“How many years has it been since the AP used this term?”
LOL. Good point.
Amen. I wasn't that much older than Amy Carter when Jimmah made the "Nuclear Proliferation" statement that he attributed to Amy. Even at the time, I thought to myself, "Why would anyone care what the kid of a politician thought about anything". I still hold that belief.
I don't care if it's a Kennedy, McCain, Carter, Bush or now a Palin. Family members of politicians, and especially teenage kids should be seen and not heard. When Bristol Palin has some life experience, other than giving birth; perhaps graduating from college, or maybe even graduate school or working or starting her own company or some other such acheivement, perhaps then she'll have something to add to the public discourse.
Until then, she should take Meghan McCain and run back the obscurity from which they were plucked.
LOL,
You can teach your children all the right things but that doesn’t mean they will always follow your teaching. As Christians we can pray and do all that we know to do and they still have a choice. Many of them make the wrong choice. I have read that a very large number of “True Love Waits” kids don’t wait. I admire those parent’s that do the right thing and their kids make big mistakes but parent’s just pick up and go on. It’s not easy.
Todd Palin says (in hind sight), “Putting the fear of God in your daughter’s new boyfriend is the best path for dads.”
Congrats to your daughter! I’m one of those who said “no” until I was married. I knew I could never support a baby on my own and didn’t want to chance it. It isn’t rocket science. Just a little common sense is all that’s needed.
We have a winner!
For your information:
Christopher West's Theology of the Body Webiste
Books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc.
From book by the same name by Pope John Paul II.
All credit are due to her and her mother. I just bask in their success.
This represents what we call “learning”.
Some people learn the easy way, others the hard way. Some never learn at all. It seems that Bristol learned the hard way, but she learned. That is to her credit.
Senior year of high school I was in elective human relations class. We had various presentations about sex. The health dept. spokesman talked about VD, a couple from the Crisis Pregnancy Center came by and gave a talk, then the senior class president. Her son was a few months old at the time. She said while she loved him that it had made a huge change in her life and she wished she would have waited. She had sex with her boyfriend only a few times and had always been “the good girl” in school. It showed a real situation rather than just an adult saying, “Don’t do this.”
Aww, you’re too modest. I’m sure having TWO great parents has something to do with it. I wish her a bright and happy future. :)
I’m the father of an 18 year old daughter, who not only graduates from high school next week but isn’t pregnant. I’d say she’s a better role model for abstinence than Bristol Palin is.
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I always have to laugh when parents assume a daughter who managed NOT to get PG has never had sex. Some of the most promiscuous girls in my high school (and that was many years ago) managed to graduate without having a baby.
I recently heard a woman gossiping about a PG teen and was totally unaware her high school daughter was performing some impossible-to-get-PG sex acts with many young male students. I learned a long time ago to assume nothing and be prepared for anything.
Bristol matured in just a few months. She’s had more time to think about it. And it’s not easy to be a Mom when you’re young and all your friends are still “out there having fun” while you have a baby to tend.
The ONLY 100% foolproof safest plan is Abstinence.
And not only that . . . had she waited she would have had more time to learn that her boyfriend wasn’t nearly the “man” she thought he was. How many young teens actually end up marrying the teen who got them pregnant? What are the Statistics?
8% marry within the first year after the baby is born. They are also less likely to be married by age 35 than those teens who did not get pregnant. In 1980, 52% of teens were already married when they had a baby. By 2002, only 20% of teens who got pregnant were married. http://tinyurl.com/celsd7
Bristol Palin may be the start of a nice Tradtional Conservative trend among the teens who’ll listen to her.
Congratulations.
Our oldest daughter is scoping out graduate school, and our next oldest daughter is in high school. The youngest isn't old enough for any of that to be a concern yet.
Neither are or have been pregnant, in trouble with the law, or in any trouble to speak of. They do volunteer work, hold jobs as time allows, and are intelligent, accomplished, well-spoken young women.
Finding someone like Bristol Palin, who has made some truly terrible and tragic decisions, then make her look glamorous by giving her endless publicity is a horrible idea and sends a bad message.
Trying to tell teens Look what happens when you have a baby out of wedlock - people hang on your every word, you get to go on TV and wear pretty clothes and people will give you lots of attention won't benefit at-risk teens in any way.
Making a celebrity of Bristol Palin is wrong.
You may suspect she hasn't. But with Bristol Palin there is no doubt, now is there?
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