Even though it's early Saturday morning and I'm tired, I still have to give a giant Friday Feminist Fuck You to Sarah Palin for invoking the anti-choice argument that pisses me off the most at a recent Right to Life rally:
I can look at a scared, embarrassed unwed teenager carrying a child, and I can look at a desperate adoptive parent's eyes, see their longing for a child, and I can know for sure, Vanderburgh Right to Life, you are doing the right thing, because you are planting those seeds, reminding us that children are meant as perfect gifts, not as burdens.
In other less convoluted words, Sarah Palin is suggesting that women have children they don't want so that they can give them away to a woman who can't get pregnant. She is telling women with unwanted pregnancies to think about every other woman in the world and put herself last before she decides what to do with her pregnancy.
Fuck you, Sarah Palin. No woman has to rent her womb out to anyone who is so "desperate" to have a child that they'll only adopt one from a knocked up teen who considered having an abortion. There are millions of kids around the world who don't have parents and are waiting to be adopted. Most of those kids will never be half as healthy as little Trig Palin or live to see their first birthday like he will (although, thankfully, most of them won't be political pawns like Trig. Speaking of which, fuck you again, Sarah Palin, for using Bristol and Trig as political pawns.). There are more adoptable kids in the U.S. than there are parents willing to adopt, which leaves a lot of foster kids out on the street on their 18th birthday. The couples who are that in want of a child can adopt one of those children. So can you, Sarah Palin, who has yet to adopt a single child. Guess she's not ready to walk that walk.
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I totally agree! It's not my duty to nourish, protect, and carry a child for another woman. I can't stand the way that republicans meddle in such personal decisions and apply blanket solutions to complicated, personal problems. (And then say that government should play a minimal role in people's lives.) They fail over and over to see the complexities of individual circumstances. That's because it's easier to simplify everything and everyone.
Sarah Palin makes my skin crawl.
When is Sarah Palin's unwed teenage daughter going to give her child up for adoption? Yes, it doesn't seem quite so easy when it's your own family, does it?
You cannot, and should not, force a woman to carry a child she doesn't want, and, Sarah Palin, you shouldn't try to force teenage girls who may want their children to give them up by trying to shame them with talk of being unwed and trying to guilt them by talking about the perfect couple who just need that baby.
And according to Sarah Palin's logic, SHE should have given Trig up for adoption, since she believes that women who consider abortion should instead give their baby to an infertile couple.
So many of those families want a round, healthy, white BABY and don't give a fuck about all the other kids.