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This isn't about Bristol Palin, her fetus, or her mother for that matter. It's about the dangers of a moral absolutist position on matters that cannot be approached rigidly in families or public policy. The GOP can't possibly live up to their own unrealistic standards. Teenagers have sex because nature tells them to, and powerfully. Many in this party want sex education programming gone from public schools. In many school districts around the country, the classroom is the only place where kids have a shot at learning about sex. Our theocrats want to take away their access to information about birth control in favor of "parental" education about abstinence. It's these same folks that would cut funding for the programs the young mother needs to raise a child when she so righteously carries the unwanted baby to term without family support, love, or the resources it deserves. Victims of their dreadful circumstance, they both take more from society than they contribute and all suffer thereby. Where's the morality?
