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September 4 at 10:15AM

Future Teenage Mom Bristol Palin Thwarted By Her Home State's Governor

POSTED BY: Dylan Ris

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past three days, you've heard the news that Bristol Palin is beautiful and a gift from God. But now we learn that, as a soon-to-be teenage mother in Alaska, she faces reduced options for charitable aid, thanks to the veto pen of an unsympathetic governor

"Our house is full, help us build a new home," proclaims the Web site for Covenant House Alaska, a program that helps younger people, including teenage mothers. The Alaska legislature decided to allocate $5 million in building funds, but Gov. Sarah Palin cut that to $3.9 million with a line-item veto in June…

Covenant House Alaska serves teen moms, and given Governor Palin's opposition to abortion rights — and more to the point, her recent announcement that her own 17-year old is pregnant — this particular cut in funding has drawn attention.

What a barracuda that governor is! Young Bristol and her fellow teen moms should write a letter to her, reminding her that with a $5 billion state budget surplus, she ought to find it in her heart to fully fund a program that benefits young parents and their un-aborted babies.

And if that doesn't work, the teenage moms should write a second letter — this time to a prominent U.S. Senator — demanding that if health insurance covers the cost of Viagra, it should also cover the cost of birth control.

That's assuming, of course, that these girls know what birth control is. It's a topic that's not traditionally covered in "abstinence only" education.

  1. If Bristol is 17 now exactly how old is she? Is she 17 and 11 months or is she 17 and 1 month? It says a lot about a persons parenting skills when their 16 year old daughter get knocked up. You can't blame the kid though considering your older brother was also conceived out of wedlock. I guess it runs in the family.

    by mike September 4th at 12:01PM
  2. Young Bristol should thank her mom for making her pregnancy known to the world in order to calm down some stupid lies that made mom look bad. After all, this was supposed to be a happy week for mom, and everyone just _ruined_ it! Good thing mom is sooo understanding and supportive.

    by DaveW September 4th at 12:52PM
  3. Church Lady waves her spit-covered hand to crowd. "Let me annoint you in the name of death, my friends!" she cries, to roars from the crowd. Very popular among women who everyone hate, and also among uptight, masochistic men, she's sure to unite the Republican Christian Right base and make the rest of America insist on deporting the entire Party to the moon. (Now you know why Obama's so Kennedy about NASA.)

    by Jasper September 4th at 1:16PM
  4. I do not like this women at all. Does not believe in birth control. As mayor she threatened to fire the librarian if books that she deemed offensive were not taken off shelves. And she just came off as tacky. And hows that abstinence thing working for ya now Sarah.

    by nancy September 4th at 2:27PM
  5. This woman is beyond gross. Alaska can keep her.

    by Danny September 4th at 3:10PM
  6. she is against classifying polar bears as an endangered species.

    it's not bad enough that she thinks the endangerment of polar bears is politically relevent. no, no. She has to stand against it, too.

    by democra_doo September 4th at 3:30PM
  7. The Post story is not accurate. Today, the Covenant House Director issued this news release.

    http://wthrockmorton.com/2008/09/04/our-operating-budget-was-not-reduced-director-of-teen-center/

    by Warren Throckmorton September 4th at 5:02PM
  8. Ronald Reagan summarizes the entire Republican Convention, including comments regarding Bristol and Levi as only the Great Communicator can. Check it out at, http://beema.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/beema-news/.

    by VidCrayzee September 5th at 7:29PM
  9. I don't know why Americans are all upset. Bristol's boyfriend simply heard the chant "Drill here, drill now" and could not get it out of his head.
    And it is night for 6 months of the year up there in Wasilla for goodness sakes. You can only rub noses for so long before that gets boring.
    But let's not drag Bristol's pregnancy into the political arena. I'd rather wait until the sex tape of her mom comes out.

    by Gunter Opa Foster McCann September 6th at 3:11AM
  10. http://therealmccain.com/

    by Steve October 10th at 1:51AM
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