Palin, abstinence, teen pregnancy and political smears

Reactions from the left are to cackle and shriek. Take this video from a person who I am subscribed to:

This is not reasoned argument which, to be fair, he does provide a lot of the time. This is hand-rubbing. Obama made a very fair and respectable point that families should be off-limits in decent debate. He mentioned that he had said this before and he has, but he was talking about his wife. There is a problem with this and that is that Obama’s wife was actively inserting herself into his campaign and was giving speeches in rallies so Michelle Obama was definitely on-limits. Bristol Palin should be off limits because she has no political involvement in her mother’s campaign (to the best of my knowledge).

The left smears started before this so I don’t expect them to stop now. However, the legitimate question on this matter is the issue of teen pregnancy and sex education. Many have claimed that this is ironic. No. People may have different ideas on how to tackle pregnancy but most all people agree that teen pregnancy is something to be avoided. And no one method is said to be perfect, accidents will still happen. Ignoring this case of one for a moment – do people thing that traditional families like Palin’s will contain more teen pregnancy than non traditional ones?

Sex education and the acceptance of sex (as exemplified by in-school nurseries) has increased in the modern age. Do we have less teen pregnancy now? We do not. I don’t think ramping up sex ed will help, I don’t think that abstinence only sex education will help. What will help is decreasing the social meme of the acceptance of casual sex.

But whatever will happen, people will still make mistakes. What is important is how they get over those mistakes. Bristol Palin has announced that she will get married to the father and raise the child. This is the appropriate thing to do and does testify to the way that she has been raised.

I’m not a frothing-at-the-mouth supporter of the right. I’m the first one to bash creationism teaching in the schools. But the left has failed to show any class and have acted to this incident in the typical thuggish way that they normally do. We all have mini scandals in our families but to try to destroy Palin on this is disingenuous, I consider this an example of good values that Palin’s daughter has taken control of her situation which is ultimately what the people on the right believe in – personal power from within instead of power from without.