Comments on: Palin is “Hardcore Pro-Life”

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:00:28 +0000

This discussion is getting increasingly bizarre. I am amazed to report that I found Palin’s comments regarding this baby really affecting – I mean, for anyone who has observed how people really can fall in love with a baby they are dreading – it really rings true. What is really fucked up is that she’s in politics at all, given that home and hearth seems to be her preferred territory. How can you be a mother of five and run a campaign like this? What kind of choice is that? As a woman who has consciously, intentionally chosen not to have children from a clear-sighted perspective of the energy and effort involved I have too much regard for motherhood as a legitimate vocation to see how its been devalued when a self-proclaimed family-values woman is appropriated as a political token. It’s disgusting to see women used like this – and even more so to observe their willing participation because it so obviously appeals to their vanity and a really base lust for power. What I’m saying is that the role Palin has assumed politically is completely self-contradicotry to her so-called ethic – and that is what I take issue with and what I have no respect for and cannot take seriously. The woman is a hypocrite and the whole republican machine that’s using her is just disgusting.

By: William

William — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:54:29 +0000

What a terrible thing to do. Don’t you know there are children going to bed hungry every night who’d give anything for a baby burger?

If you’d bothered to read the Constitutionalist Party platform you’d know that our official position is that if those hungry children want a baby burger so badly they should get a goddamn job.

By: Orange

Orange — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:16:20 +0000

According to this source, the current risk of miscarriage after amniocentesis is probably more like 1 in 1,600. The 1-in-200 figure dates back a few decades, before the current techniques were in use. I read two blogs by people who have a child with Down syndrome. Guess what? They're both pro-choice. I believe they both wish doctors provided more accurate information about DS to pregnant couples who find out their fetus has DS—apparently some OB-GYNs slant the information toward the worst-case scenario, which may lead more women to choose abortion. If they received more balanced information, perhaps more of them would choose to continue their pregnancies.

By: preying mantis

preying mantis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:19:35 +0000

"My dynamo needs a steady supply of babies in it’s blast furnace or it won’t be able to power my new invention: a ray that turns good upstanding Christians into homosexual marxists." What a terrible thing to do. Don't you know there are children going to bed hungry every night who'd give anything for a baby burger?

By: William

William — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:55:19 +0000

Maybe Ms. Stanek could spend some time in that section of Alaska to see if they need a Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

God, I hope not. If Ms. Stanek showed up and passed an act like that I’d be out of business. My dynamo needs a steady supply of babies in it’s blast furnace or it won’t be able to power my new invention: a ray that turns good upstanding Christians into homosexual marxists.

By: preying mantis

preying mantis — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:48:44 +0000

“At any rate I’m sure she wasn’t being irresponsible or maybe hoping that she could have her cake and eat it too…”

Maybe Ms. Stanek could spend some time in that section of Alaska to see if they need a Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

By: William

William — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:49:43 +0000

And given that, isn’t it curious that after her water broke, she bypassed several large hospitals with state-of-the-art NICU units to deliver at the rinky little local hospital?

Hey, to be fair, the “rinky little local hospital” Palin waited to get to had been taken over by her church in order to stop abortions from being performed there. I mean, the place was watched over by God, it was a haven for innocent human life. Or some shit like that. At any rate I’m sure she wasn’t being irresponsible or maybe hoping that she could have her cake and eat it too…

By: Downs mom

Downs mom — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:08:00 +0000

Rebecca — no, I didn’t know that. Trig didn’t make her my hero, and that certainly lowered my already rock-bottom opinion of her (yes, we’re drilling into bedrock now). Frankly, I’ve read very little about her pregnancy, can’t stomach the BS. I came around to my kid with DS because I went into my pregnancy knowledgeable about Down syndrome. She came from…well…stupidity and ignorance. Risking her baby’s life in the name of being “pro-life”? WTF?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:43:57 +0000

Downs mum: And given that, isn’t it curious that after her water broke, she bypassed several large hospitals with state-of-the-art NICU units to deliver at the rinky little local hospital?

By: ElleBeMe

ElleBeMe — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:57:38 +0000

Well, I’ll call men dicks too when appropriate… In fact I think John McCain is a fine example of one….a purple, flacid, wart-encrusted dick. And I happen to like penises.

“Vaginas are soft, warm, generally moist, a source of pleasure for their owners and those their owners let play with them alike, and the entrance point to life on Earth for the vast majority of all humans ever, the high rate of c-sections nowadays to the contrary. Vaginas are *good* things. So why is Sarah Palin a vagina?”

You’re right. I should have elaborated on my use of C. Take my adjectives for septic tank and use them to describe the bad word I used in reference to her.

“I mean, wouldn’t calling her a venereal disease, or for that matter a festering, rotting shit, make your point more directly than calling her a vagina?”

Perhaps, but people don’t have the same ick factor if you call them rotting, festering pieces of shit. My aim was for impact and severity, and I seem to have gotten it. Regardless of the sexist implications the word has, the word also has a shock/awe factor that very few other words do. So yeah I feel THAT STRONGLY about her and for what she stands to call her that. Is the word PC? Nope. Is it nasty? Yep. And like I said – I don’t lightly employ it (not because I have an aversion to vaginas, or wish to slam them).

Your opinion may vary.