on Sep 4th, 2008Palin as Vice President Pro-life versus Pro-choice
Here is Priss’s take on Palin as Vice President of The United States of America
Sen. John McCain knew that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter was pregnant when he picked her for his running mate – he had learned about it in a private conservation with Palin last week, according to McCain’s chief campaign strategist.
Taken from http://www.swamppolitics.com/
Yeah right, bullshit. Even if he didn’t know about the pregnancy, the McCain camp have to claim that they knew of it so as not to sound like some clueless morons. After Obama won the Democratic race, and statistics proved that America is in fact ready for a female president, it sounds like a good idea for the Republican party to jump on the whole female in power bandwagon and put a softer, somewhat less boring, face to the McCain’s bid for presidency.
Ms. Palin had once supported the candidate who ran against her own stepmother-in-law for mayor of her town, Wasilla. She was being investigated over claims that she had put pressure on an underling to fire her sister’s former husband from his job as a state trooper. And she had waited until she was seven months pregnant to make public news that she was expecting a fifth child this year, a pregnancy that was complicated by Down syndrome.
It’s really quite impressive that Ms Palin kept her Down syndrome baby. Yes, we know she’s anti-abortion, pro-life, but there are many other severely handicapped potential lives that perhaps by aborting them, would be more merciful than euthanasia.
Although euthanasia for severely handicapped newborn babies would prove contentious, some British doctors and ethicists are now in favour. Joy Delhanty, professor of human genetics at University College London, said: “I would support these views. I think it is morally wrong to strive to keep alive babies that are then going to suffer many months or years of very ill health.”
Ah well. These Christians pro-lifers feel that the sanctity of life is of utmost importance. I’m not saying that life is worthless, but the quality of life should be given as serious a consideration as life itself. These Christians preach abstinence but frown upon abortion. That leaves us with many unwanted pregnancies, because people can’t simply can’t abstain. So since they committed one sin, they can’t commit another. It’s similar to how muslims that drink and smoke, but die die refuse to eat pork because eating pork is somehow more appauling a sin than smoking or drinking? Which I never quite understand.
So we have children growing up in single families, or in dysfunctional ones, children that are physically or mentally handicapped that suffers along with their families. Oh, I don’t have anything against having handicapped children, it’s the families that have handicapped children and don’t give a shit or even abuse them or simply can’t afford medication and treatment for them. You bring a child to this world, it’s your damn responsibility to bring them up right. If not love, at least money. To these families: you should simply abort your child if you can’t promise them a good life, or at least attempt to. But of course, that’s just my personal opinion.
I hope I don’t offend any pro-lifers reading this blog post, I’m definitely a pro-choice person simply because I care. But if I were to have a handicapped child, not severely handicapped, I would definitely keep it and love it with all my heart.
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I am sick of the Republicans even though I am also pro-life… but that’s under the condition that there must be plans in place to assist the person whom pro-lifers INSIST must bring the baby into life.
What I am saying is, I am simply sick of those pro-lifers who demands the pregnant mother carry the child and then leave her to shoulder all the rest of the burden alone after giving birth. In that case I say let the mother decide if she wants to keep the baby.