Have to run - but.

[kyburg]

Some links -

Yes, they actually 'bury' the hatchet...it's a tradition in that part of the country.

Something I already knew. Unplanned pregnancy does not always equal unwanted pregnancy - and in the evangelical circles, that's more the case than not.

One way to stop abortions, say I - but there's obviously more to it than that.

Gotta run. Talk later.

One week to birthday weekend!

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[eyelid.livejournal.com]

Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion.

bullshit.

The evangelicals backed Palin on the Bristol/pregnancy issue because Palin is their girl. If it had been Obama's child who was a pregnant teen, even if she kept the baby, the evangelicals would have gutted the family.

See, e.g., Bill O'Reilly's reaction to Jamie Lynn-Spears's pregnancy vs. his opinion on Palin's pregnancy. When it was JLS, O'Reilly said her pregnancy proved her parents were irresponsible and she was a pinhead. When it was Bristol Palin, O'Reilly said it was a private family matter.

We get kids of religious families on abortioninfo all the time. They get abortions without telling their families, because their families would kill them for being pregnant in the first place. That's anecdotal, yes - but more accurate than the basis on which the New Yorker is expressing its opinions (the evangelical base's response to a pregnancy in the family of a staunch pro-life Republican candidate for office).

Also, while girls in religious families may be pressured by their families into having their children (sometimes they're also pressured into abortion by those "religious" families, btw), I don't see that as a good thing because pressure is unacceptable. And they are often subjected to hate and guilt for having a baby that is now their family's problem.