Sarah Palin Is No Friend of Women in Politics

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What about the depresion that most women feel long after the abortion?is that just the side effect or maybe punishment from above.it's easy to destroy than to create.adrian

adrian of NY 10:52AM December 01, 2010

Readers, before going on the next TJ Street post, a point to clarify: reproductive choice and freedom is not responsible for "irresponsible behavior" or male violence against women. Sarah Palin's daughter showed some of that (irresponsibility) close to home. The great Quaker suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony is dying all over again to be associated with the anti-choice side of the street as she stood for women's rights, dignity, health, voice and self-determination in every sphere. Abortion rights is a tough issue, messy and bound to bring out the deepest personal convictions - on that we can agree. I thought the reader from Idaho made some fair points. And I'd urge one or two others to keep the conversation on a civil and even keel - then again, Mr. Jefferson himself was a master of stirring up political invective. The American way? Good day!

Jamie Stiehm of DC 7:34AM December 01, 2010

Truly, do not insult your audience with illogical political arguments that cannot stand up to analytical scrutiny. Thinking women do not have a political litmus test in order to qualify for the so called womens' movement. Women are independent thinkers just like men. Reproductive choice is better made before conception. I get right sick of the so called womens' moevment promoting irresponsible behavior. Sarah Palin emboldens women while the remnants of your outdated movement renders them victims which is crippling. I would ask that you and your aging hags get out of the way and allow the new women to do their job but it is not necessary as you are headed for the dust bin of history of your own volition.

mickeymat of VA 6:32AM December 01, 2010

Interesting choice of words, "reproductive rights." We all grouse about rights who has them, who doesn't, etc.
Rights are believed to come directly from God since he created us and hence is the only one capable of giving us our inalienable rights. Since God gave us the ability to procreate he thus gave us the right to reproduce. Rights and responsibility and obligation are inseperable. Hence my following point and observation:
If you progressive liberals want me or others from the opposite spectrum to support "reproductive rights" then show us that with that right you and all your cohorts expect possesors of "rights" to act responsibly.
Where is the abhorrence of a teenage girl/boy who utilized their "right" to act but fail to act responsibly?
Where is your indignation when a young adult female utilized her "right" to be promiscuous and then is irresponsible demands an abortion?
Where is your disgust with the man who uses his reproductive right to rape a woman, or force himself upon his daughter and thereby irresponsibly create illegitimate life?
Where is your conviction when a man irresponsibly spreads his seed through several sham marriages? Or your fervor concerning the women who irresponsibly allow the idiot union?
Where is your outrage regarding the millions of orphaned, parentless children whose parents irresponsibly shrugged their obligation onto the state?
Here is the point, if a man and women have reproductive rights, then they have the responsibility that goes with it. Failure to act with responsibility implies the loss of ones rights. Yes, it may be a woman's body and she has reproductive rights, but she also has an obligation to God, herself, the child, and society to act responsibile. Failure to comply with her obligations and responsibility should result in a complete and utter loss of her reproductive right. Men are no exception.
Men who irresponsibly use their freedom to willfully take another's life should suffer the loss of their own freedom and life. This is wisdom that has permeated society since time began. This issue of "reproductive rights" is no different. What's different is we have become mushy soft. We are over indulgent. We tend to error on the side of compassion rather than justice. We use mercy to blatently rob the demands of justice. As a result, we have created our own monsters and problems. We have overcrowding in prisons because we are afraid to execute. We have an immoral society because our children learned their lessons well from their parents poor example. We have become more and more dependent on government to save us from ourselves. The more immoral we become the more rules we need. The more rules, the more we depend on enforcers of the rule. The more enforcers the less freedom.

david of ID 3:13AM December 01, 2010

It's always about abortion in the end with Democrats and liberal leftists, and some of the reasons so called urban progressive women hate Palin so much is because: she is pro life and chose not to abort her Downs baby. She is happily married to a handsome man who loves her, and she is extremely optimistic about life and is devoid of any cynicism. And she most likely has a great love life with that handsome husband of hers. PLUS, she is adored as a sex symbol and great American by the majority of red blooded American men who know when they see a real woman - not some angry dysfunctional harridan who reads the New York Times and has been in psychoanalysis for twenty years like a lot of so called progressive urban women have become in our modern age. Just look at how miserable looking Hillary Clinton is all the time!
You see, the pro life act of not killing her "defective" baby has forced many angry urban women to come to grips with their own disastrous abortions, their own failed marriages, the empty promises of a sexual revolution that instead of liberation spawned decades of broken homes, and bad marriages, sexually transmitted diseases and the soul killing malaise of nihilism that the licentious feminist movement has gifted progressive urban women with. Furthermore, you have to realize that the feminist movement - which was really a Marxist movement created by urban progressive red diaper babies has turned decades of American women into bitchy domineering foul mouthed bores that no sane man would want to be caught dead with anyway.
Ideally I think one day, soon hopefully I see Jamie Elizabeth Stiehm waking up to a really bad nightmare where she is an unborn baby in a mother's womb about to face termination via the cold sharp scalpel or vacuum machine of an abortionist with all the sensations of impending doom and the pain of deathly dismemberment. Thank goodness it will only be a bad dream, because we don't want anything to happen to her - we want her to live and to choose life. But it will be a turning point in her adult life as a woman, and as a human being - in a great teachable moment like some sage Buddhist lesson replete with karmic implications - will she choose to be aborted? Will she continue to want women to kill their unborn children now that she is a person in the womb about to be snuffed out? Or will she choose the side of the good and save her soul as an instrument to educate all of humanity on the horror and genocide that infanticide has wrought on the most innocent and helpless of us all, not to mention the countless lives and families destroyed and torn apart by this most barbaric and archaic procedure known as abortion? Then I think frivolous matters like attacking people like Sarah Palin won't matter to her that much in the big picture. One can only hope.

Mindy Goldberg of NY 11:20PM November 30, 2010

If only Sarah Palin supported killing babies, she would be the toast of the liberal town!

02144pomroy of FL 9:14PM November 30, 2010

Judicial whimsy spawned the RvW decision - not jurisprudence or logic. In your less Rad-Fem, more lucid, reflective moments, I'm certain you know that.
Abortions of convenience will one day no longer be, "the settled law of the land", but rather recognized as a heinous crime - just as slavery eventually was.
Furthermore, for hedonistic, abortion advocates to lay sole claim to "feminism" is to distort it into an unnatural and grotesque parody of womanhood.
I actually pity those who feel as you do - and hope that God does as well.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 8:20PM November 30, 2010

Talking points for the day: Negatives about Palin and if there are no facts to quote, JUST make them up.

fb274 of TX 8:04PM November 30, 2010

The official spokeswoman for all women everywhere: Jamie Elizabeth Stiehm!

Amazed of FL 7:43PM November 30, 2010

This wonderful parody coloring book about Sarah Palin highlights some of her environmental and energy policy here: http://www.goingrouge.net
Was reviewed in the Washington Post and featured on Entertainment Tonight - see the fun coloring pages on the website!

jms of CA 6:16PM November 30, 2010