A Note to Bristol Palin
Dear Bristol,
I just read on Reuters New Wire that you are pregnant. This information comes out after a blog made the claim that your brother Trig is actually your son. While I don't want a 17 year-old to be stuck in the media frenzy that is her mother's race for high office, I do feel the need to give you one piece of advice.
I am sure that "your choice to keep the baby and marry the father" was 100% yours and not at all influenced by your mother's beliefs against abortion and single-motherhood. But I am here to be a voice of reason. I am not going to tell you to abort your child. I am pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that I believe all pregnancies should be aborted. I believe you should have been better educated about sex and had birth control readily available. For some reason, people like your mother believe that if they tell youth sex is bad, they won't have it. They are wrong. And now you are not able to have safer sex because people like your mom are not taking those steps. They are all or nothing. The "all" being abstinence.
Here is where I am bothered. If it is your choice to marry the father of your unborn child, then I applaud it. If you are doing it because you two honestly and truly love each other. Your mother and her conservative friends love to propose Defense of Marriage Acts at all levels of government. But their defense of marriage does not include divorce. And last I checked, divorce ruins more marriages than same-sex marriages do. Let me clarify, I am not promoting banning divorce. I am saying if we are going to defend marriage, then we have to fight divorce.
You are young and I too was once your age. I would be on my 3rd or 4th marriage now if I married everyone I thought I loved enough to marry when I was younger. But it did not work out and I did not marry any of them. In hindsight, I probably would have been divorced. I have a feeling you received pressure from your mother to marry the father of your unborn child. Do not marry him for the sake of not raising the child in a single parent home. You will regret it and the child will grow to have distaste for one or both of you and will also grow up with a skewed view of the world. Marriage is something serious, so is having a child, especially in your teens.
So I say to you, Bristol Palin, if you don't want to raise this child and you don't love the father enough to be with him 40 years down the road. Give birth and give the child up for adoption. I know there are thousands of people who are unable to have children that would gladly adopt your bundle of joy. There is no shame in giving birth, giving the child up and not getting married and then going to college or work or the military and leading a normal life. Don't drastically change your life because of your mom's political desires.
Sincerely,
me
I just read on Reuters New Wire that you are pregnant. This information comes out after a blog made the claim that your brother Trig is actually your son. While I don't want a 17 year-old to be stuck in the media frenzy that is her mother's race for high office, I do feel the need to give you one piece of advice.
I am sure that "your choice to keep the baby and marry the father" was 100% yours and not at all influenced by your mother's beliefs against abortion and single-motherhood. But I am here to be a voice of reason. I am not going to tell you to abort your child. I am pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that I believe all pregnancies should be aborted. I believe you should have been better educated about sex and had birth control readily available. For some reason, people like your mother believe that if they tell youth sex is bad, they won't have it. They are wrong. And now you are not able to have safer sex because people like your mom are not taking those steps. They are all or nothing. The "all" being abstinence.
Here is where I am bothered. If it is your choice to marry the father of your unborn child, then I applaud it. If you are doing it because you two honestly and truly love each other. Your mother and her conservative friends love to propose Defense of Marriage Acts at all levels of government. But their defense of marriage does not include divorce. And last I checked, divorce ruins more marriages than same-sex marriages do. Let me clarify, I am not promoting banning divorce. I am saying if we are going to defend marriage, then we have to fight divorce.
You are young and I too was once your age. I would be on my 3rd or 4th marriage now if I married everyone I thought I loved enough to marry when I was younger. But it did not work out and I did not marry any of them. In hindsight, I probably would have been divorced. I have a feeling you received pressure from your mother to marry the father of your unborn child. Do not marry him for the sake of not raising the child in a single parent home. You will regret it and the child will grow to have distaste for one or both of you and will also grow up with a skewed view of the world. Marriage is something serious, so is having a child, especially in your teens.
So I say to you, Bristol Palin, if you don't want to raise this child and you don't love the father enough to be with him 40 years down the road. Give birth and give the child up for adoption. I know there are thousands of people who are unable to have children that would gladly adopt your bundle of joy. There is no shame in giving birth, giving the child up and not getting married and then going to college or work or the military and leading a normal life. Don't drastically change your life because of your mom's political desires.
Sincerely,
me
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