 birdie-brain says: Women, including teenagers, need the knowledge and the tools to make responsible and moral decisions about such events that will certainly have such an impact on their lives. Third, anyone who believes that abstinence education can avoid these adverse effects is living in la-la land. A significant percentage of our society will continue to have sex outside of marriage. Young women still report a stigma for using contraception, and so then sometimes have unprotected sex. Contraception itself is not foolproof. Epidemic proportions of women and girls continue to suffer from rape. If 11 year old Erin Maxwell, who was recently raped and murdered in our community, had survived her rape and become pregnant, Sarah Palin would favor forcing her to carry the child to term. Forcible childbirth and coerced parenthood is bad for children, for families, for communities, and for schools. Fourth, putting a vastly under-qualified woman into a traditional male profession will make it more difficult for women as a whole to break that glass ceiling. Palin rejects global warming and accepts creationist myths about how old the earth is, two issues about which there is no scientific debate. She equates being able to see Russia from her home state with foreign policy experience. She neither has the knowledge base nor the evident skills of analysis to perform this job. McCain's campaign is trying to portray Palin as an everyday woman, not an elite, who can relate to working mothers who have been disrespected and underestimated their whole lives. As two women from working class backg... *ahem* - methinks Sarah Palin got, as they say; 'burned' in this article. |
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