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Palin gave her daughter a choice to have an abortion?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — From Ben Smith at Politico: Sarah Palin's personal story, and her views on personal morality, are at the core of her politics and of why she was nominated, and why she'd energized the conservative base. Now, her daughter's pregnancy has cast her views on teenagers and sex directly into the spotlight. Democrats noted, before and after today's announcement, that Palin took a hard line on a question in 2006 from the conservative Eagle Forum Alaska: Q: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit ...

Palin On Sex Ed
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Against it: Q: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools? SP: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support. ...

Barack Obama's Denial Does Not Hold Water
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... We know from Ben Smith at the Politico that Democrats are pushing out the story about Sarah Palin's support for abstinence only education. They were doing it before the announcement and now they are really doing it. ...

I Am Pro-Choice
Shakesville — ... ) and pro-abstinence-only sex ed candidate has an unmarried, pregnant, teenage daughter. Bristol's pregnancy is fair game, so goes the argument, because it shows the failure of conservative policies. ...

Grandma Sarah
BlondeSense — Governor Palin's 17 year old daughter, Bristol is pregnant. Palin and her husband are very proud that their daughter will have the baby and proud to become grandparents. Palin has stated publicly that she wouldn't support abortion even if her daughter was raped. She supports creationism being taught in public schools and doesn't support funding of explicit sex education programs. She believes in fairy tales. Ben Smith at politico found an interview with Palin from 2006:

Palin and Contraception
Weekly Standard Blog — ... bloggers can't resist the temptation to sink their fangs into Gov. Palin because she opposed spending tax dollars on "explicit sex-ed programs". ...

Just One Day at Memeorandum: Any Questions About Media Bias?
Stop The ACLU — ... — Sources close to Sarah Palin tell The Brody File that the husband of the GOP Vice-presidential choice, Todd Palin, was arrested and charged with Driving under the Influence of alcohol back in 1986. He was 22 years old at the time. Palin opposed sex-ed — Sarah Palin’s personal story, and her views on personal morality, are at the core of her politics and of why she was nominated, and why she’d energized the conservative base. — Now, her daughter’s pregnancy has cast her views on teenagers and sex directly into the spotlight.

Sample Size of One
damnum absque injuria — ... to point out that Sarah Palin opposed sex education in connection with the latest privacy-invading over Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. To which I say, give me a friggin’ break. Abstinence-only education may or may not be a good idea, but pointing to one individual as “proof” that any policy does or doesn’t work is just plain stupid. One might as well “prove” that gun control is a good idea by pointing to one instance of a legal gun owner committing a crime with a firearm, or “prove” it’s a bad idea by pointing to one instance in which a law-abiding citizen used a gun to prevent ...

Red Neck Nation
DownWithTyranny! — ... Since the very backward governor of his state opposes contraception and any education about reproduction other than abstinence, it was inevitable that his red neck semen would impregnate some foolish and equally ignorant girl whose parents had let her down by keeping her in ideologoly-based-darkness. Ironic that it was the governor's own daughter. Fitting. More fitting is that what Cafferty calls a party in the and of make believe has turned itself, willfully into the party of the Red Neck Nation, one that feels perfectly comfortable nominating someone with bizarre, far from the ...

The Crackpiper Chronicles with Scott St. Clair - Part 4
HorsesAss.Org — It’s been a while since our all-time favorite troll, Scott St. Clair (AKA The Crackpiper) has given me some good material for a post, but he’s been writing columns now at places like Crosscut and the Kirkland Reporter, and his insane and nonsensical ramblings have once again caught my eye. Here’s a recap of two of his latest efforts in unintentional comedy. The Smallest Scandal in the World As a “General interest columnist” for the Kirkland Reporter, Crackpiper appears to be carrying quite a bit of water for the effort by Toby Nixon to unseat popular ...

Sullivan Implies Palin Supports Teaching Creationism and Opposes Teaching Contraception; Neither Is True
Patterico's Pontifications — Andrew Sullivan has implied that Sarah Palin opposes the teaching of contraception in schools, and has pushed the teaching of creationism in schools. Neither implication is true. On September 1, Andrew Sullivan wrote a post titled Palin On Sex Ed which read in its entirety: Against it: Q: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools? SP: Yes, the ...

‘Pro‐Life As Any Candidate’ Palin Picketed Abortion Doctor
Wonk Room — For pro-choice activists, Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) short time in public office is characterized by her strong opposition to reproductive rights and sensible sex-education. As mayor of Wasilla, the Palin administration “cut funds that had previously paid” for rape kits “and began charging victims or their health insurers the $500 to $1200 fee.” Palin expressed support for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion, opposed abortion in cases of rape or incest, strongly supported failed abstinence-only initiatives, and generally described herself as “pro‐life as any candidate can ...

Sarah Palin and the MSM
Ross Douthat — James Poniewozik and Jason Zengerle both note that (in Zengerle's words) "for someone who spent so much time railing against the mainstream media in the run-up to the election, Sarah Palin sure is spending a lot of time giving the dread MSM post-election interviews." Poniewozik notes that "she'll only have the white-hot pop-cultural attention--already starting to cool--for a while longer," so it makes sense to make the most of it. That's true enough, but I'd also note that a post-election goodwill tour might be Palin's best chance for a while to change the "Palin Rules" that have governed her media coverage since August - rules ...

Palin Makes the Rounds
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Sarah Palin will hold a presser tomorrow during the Republican Governors Association in Miami -- where some possible 2012 hopefuls are gathering -- adding to her media rounds she's been doing this week. Those include Greta Van Susteran ...

Bristol Palin: Abstinence ‘Is Not Realistic At All’
Think Progress — In 2006, as a gubernatorial candidate, Sarah Palin filled out a questionnaire emphasizing her support for abstinence education. She wrote that “the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.” Alaska does not require sex ed to be taught in schools; Anchorage schools teach “Abstinence Plus,” which emphasizes abstaining from sex. Palin’s views came under fire when it was revealed that her then-17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant. In her first public interview, Bristol told Fox News’ chief Palin cheerleader Greta Van Susteren last night that abstinence is “not realistic ...