Sarah Palin: "Unapologetically" Anti-Choice

By Cate Sevilla

Katie Couric is all over the McCain Palin campaign trail, so much so, that I'm really wondering why Palin keeps allowing her to interview her. Clearly, no good can come from it, and if I were Palin, I would be a bit sick of Katie's incessant blinking.

Couric stopped by to ask Palin about a couple hawt topics such as feminism, domestic drilling, and what her favorite news sources are: "All of 'em, any of 'em, whatever's been put in front of me all these years." Um...OK.

When the conversation moved on to Global Warming, Palin says that while action needs to be taken, "It kinda doesn't matter what caused it at this point." I can practically hear Al Gore screaming from here. In my humble opinion, I thought learning what caused something would help us understand how we can prevent it in the future...but what do I know.

As far as social issues are concerned, I know a lot of gay people are worried that if Palin and McCain get into office, that they would try to stomp on their rights, but don't you worry! Palin is not going to "judge Americans" for the CHOICES they make in their adult lives. OK? So you can all stop worrying about good ole Sarah and John judging you for that choice you made to be a big gay. Because, dontcha know, Sarah has a big gay friend who made the choice to like other girls. So it's all good in the gayborhood.

But what about abortion, you ask yourself! Well, some of the best parts about Katie Couric's Day of Fun with Sarah Palin was when she asked her that if a "15-year-old girl is raped by her father" does Palin still think that it should be illegal for her to get an abortion.

Palin curtly responded, "I am pro-life and I am unapologetic about my position there."

And what would she do for that poor teenage girl who has been impregnated by her father? Palin says that this situation is "less than ideal" and that she would make sure that the girl would be "supported" and that she would make sure that "adoption is made easier".

Right.

Couric swiftly brought up the Morning After pill and using her infamous "I'm going to ask you again" line, she bluntly asked Palin if she condemns the Morning After Pill or if she condones it. Sarah says that she "wouldn't personally participate in the kind of contraception" while emphatically stating that this was her personal opinion, not a McCain and Palin policy.

This is the argument I've heard a lot from Palin supporters - that it's her "personal opinion" to be anti-choice and it's her "personal opinion" that life starts at conception. The biggest concern I have about Sarah, is that as Vice President of the United States, is she really going to set aside her strong, "unapologetic" opinions when making laws and policies about abortion and emergency contraception?

I doubt it.


 


POSTED IN: NEWS
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:13 (GMT+00)
8 Responses
1.

How can she possibly condemn the morning after pill over Incest?

And life starts at conception? Not if you're a moose.

iain
Wed, 01-Oct-2008 12:21 GMT
2.

What a twat, surely in a campaign leading up to the presidential election you DONT want to be alienating people and you want to at least TRYand win over every social group?

Kam Sohi
Wed, 01-Oct-2008 13:18 GMT
3.

I don't understand why Palin keeps allowing herself to be interviewed by Couric either. I feel like when the cameras are off they just circle each other, glaring, like comic book nemeses. Maybe someone should keep the camera rolling for that.

rosina rubylips
Wed, 01-Oct-2008 17:32 GMT
4.

Sarah Palin is "unapologetcally" pro-choice. She happens to choose LIFE. Why is it acceptable to mock and deride a woman who believes that ALL innocent life is precious and should be protected from the first moments of conception? I'm sick to death of women who embrace life ridiculed for their CHOICE.

survivor04
Wed, 01-Oct-2008 18:49 GMT
5.

@survivor04 - not ALL innocent life. she hunts remember.

Plus she's not Pro-Choice, she's Pro-Life as she's said so many times, it seems very clear that if she had her way, she would remove the ability for the general population to have a choice.

Its pro-life for her, anti-choice for everyone else.

james
Thu, 02-Oct-2008 11:55 GMT
6.

Re James:
So according to you, the only choice a woman can make is to suck her baby out of her body into a sink. And if she doesn't choose to do that, then she's anti-choice. . . right. . .

survivor04
Fri, 03-Oct-2008 18:15 GMT
7.

No, survivor04, what james said was that if Sarah Palin had her ideal, no woman could make the CHOICE not to abort - it would be forced upon them. Clearly not everyone who is pro-choice would actually make the choice to have an abortion (I wouldn't have one, but I wouldn't legislate for everyone else to think the same way as me). But everyone who is pro-LIFE would remove the choice altogether.

No-one is deriding Sarah Palin for thinking life is sacred. Oh, all right, some people all, but I think they're rather stupid and ignorant too. They're deriding her for being uninformed and presenting her ideas poorly and evasively. No-one ridicules women who choose to keep their babies unless they then raise them badly - they're not the ones trying to get access to abortion services, are they? So they're obviously not at the centre of the debate. It's simply a fact that in Sarah Palin's perfect world, there would be no choice at all.

Alex
Sat, 11-Oct-2008 11:37 GMT
8.

Incidentally, she can't think life is THAT sacred if she supports the death penalty.

Alex
Sat, 11-Oct-2008 11:38 GMT

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