Bent Corner

You simply can’t make this stuff up. Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin used the power of a line-item veto to drastically decrease state spending for programs that help single teen mothers. In other words, girls just like her own 17-year old daughter Bristol Palin.

So not only does Sarah Palin believe that abortions should be banned except only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk, she withheld money from a program that helps young girls that decide not to abort their pregnancy and instead have the baby. She is also against sex education being taught in public schools.

Again, you simply can’t make this stuff up.

Daily Kos currently has a blog post — they call them “Diaries” — up that claims that Governor Sarah Palin’s 4-month old baby with Down syndrome might be her granddaughter grandson. Evidently there is a rumor going around that the baby is Palin’s teenage daughter’s child, not the Governor’s.

They linked to an article in the Anchorage Daily News published this past March that broke the news that Palin at the time was 7-months pregnant. The problem was that she didn’t look pregnant. Supposedly her own staff was caught off guard by the news.

It states on Daily Kos that Palin’s teenage daughter was out of school and unseen by anyone for months because she had mono.

I’m somewhat surprised that this story would appear over on Daily Kos. I highly doubt the mainstream news will touch this, unless you consider the National Enquirer to be a member of the mainstream news media.

I’m not sure how Republicans or conservatives will respond to this rumor. Palin is extremely anti-choice. While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin stated in a debate that even if her daughter became pregnant in the result of a rape, she would “choose life”. I believe that is code for forcing her underage child to have her rapist’s baby.

That’s just plain nuts.

How would Governor Palin and her husband respond if their teenage daughter became pregnant?  Would they hide the fact that their teenage daughter obviously had unprotected sex and became pregnant?

From America’s favorite supermarket tabloid, The Wall Street Journal:

A draft regulation, still being revised and debated, treats most birth-control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion because they can work by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. The regulation considers that destroying “the life of a human being.”

This is unreal. Just when I thought the Bush Administration couldn’t get any worse. What will Bush try to do next, ban the horseless carriage? How about antibiotics? Getting sick is God’s will.

Who are we to interfere with the will of God?

People from the anti-choice group Face the Truth came to Hagerstown yesterday and terrorized people with giant scary abortion photos. Hagerstown is only one stop on their 15 city terror tour.  Who knows, maybe they will make a stop in your city too.

My biggest problem with groups like this is that they take photos from a medical procedure and blow them up to 100 times the actual size to make them look like something they are not. They then wave these giant posters in your face and demand (demand!) you look at them.

It doesn’t matter who you are.
It doesn’t matter how old you are.
It doesn’t matter how young you are.

They will force you to look at their ghastly pictures.

It’s as though their right to make you look at ginned up photos is more important than your right not to see the photos.

Some members of Face the Truth even dragged their young children to the event and made them hold signs denouncing a woman’s right to choose.

The members of Face the Truth and other similar anti-choice groups want you to think that a fetus is the same thing as a human baby.  The reality is that the two are not the same. Just because a gigantic posterized photo of a fetus might look like a human baby doesn’t make it an actual human baby. Have you ever seen a pig fetus? They too kind of look like a human baby. The same thing applies to a monkey fetus. They look remarkably similar to a human fetus.

That doesn’t mean they are human, even if they look like they are human.  Looks can be deceiving.

I feel as though liberals are quickly running out of reasons to vote for Barack Obama.  He seems to be flip-flopping on one issue after another in an attempt to appear more to the so called “middle America”.  Not that I even really know what that exactly is.

First he backed away from the rock solid 16-month time table for pulling out of Iraq by saying that he was holding on to the right to “revise” (flip-flop) his Iraq plan if he received new information from commanders on the ground.  He then “revised” his promise to oppose giving retroactive immunity to telecommunication companies by stating that he would vote for a bill that did just that.

When he caved on Iraq and then FISA, I figured the only thing that was left was the idea that liberals had to vote for Obama, or McCain would stack the Supreme Court with judges that would take away a woman’s right to an abortion.

Now I’m not even sure of that.

Via TalkLeft, quoting the AP:

In an interview this week with “Relevant,” a Christian magazine, Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain “a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother.”

Obama then added: “Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.”

Not only does is sound as though Obama doesn’t respect a woman’s right to choose, it sounds like he doesn’t respect the seriousness of mental illness.  Both physical illness and mental illness are very serious issues.  Nether should be taken any less serious then the other.

To put this into context, it seems that Obama would not allow Andrea Yates, the Texas woman that drowned her five children to recieve a late-term abortion.  That’s a position I would expect John McCain to have.