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Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:00 AM

Hurricane Bristol hits Minnesota

Republicans try to brush off the tempest over Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and turn that other storm in Louisiana into a political prop.
By Mike Madden

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  • Tuesday, September 2, 2008 06:29 AM

    I guess abstinence-only doesn't work.

    For me, the most obvious fault in this situation is not that a young woman had sex outside of marriage, but that she had sex without protection, even in this day and age, and with her education and access to information. Even with a mother who must know the dangers of unprotected sex. Or does Palin not believe white middle class children can catch AIDS through unprotected sex?

    What kind of story would this have been if it hadn't been a pregnancy, but rather, AIDS?

    —harlemita Read harlemita's other letters

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