Today We Are All Bristol Palin

Reactions to the news of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy have ranged from gleeful schadenfreude to deranged acrimony from left wing dregs who believe they’ve found their Jeremiah Wright.

But Bristol’s brave decision to raise her baby with the support of her partner and family has also served to inspire. Her story is our story, and men and women throughout the blogosphere are sharing their personal experiences with teen motherhood and unintended pregnancies.

Dr. Sanity related her story of abortion and regret.

A RedState blogger shared his experience with unplanned pregnancy over two generations.

Neo-neocon described a few of the many ways unintended pregnancy can impact our lives.

Ed Morrissey lamented the branding of teen pregnancy as catastrophic, and shared his family’s touching story of teen parenthood.

And really, who among us can’t relate to what Bristol Palin and her family are going through? One-third of girls in the United States get pregnant before age 20, and over 80% of those pregnancies are unplanned. Many more teens have had “pregnancy scares,” for lack of a better term. Odds are you’ve either experienced teen pregnancy or you know someone who has.

So today, as Bristol Palin finds herself under the media microscope, viciously attacked by hypocrites in glass houses, all of us should stand behind her because in one way or another, we are all Bristol Palin.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on September 3, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Filed Under Election 2008, Sarah Palin, Women

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