Meow House Theatre

I’m so glad her daughter was able to make the choice to have her baby and keep it.  Because everyone should have that choice.  It’s so great that Sarah Palin’s daughter was free to be able to make a private decision, on her own, without anyone butting in or telling her what she had to do or was supposed to do.   It’s so nice that we live in America, where the State doesn’t force life-long life-changing decisions on its citizens.  You know, like China does.  China –wait, you’re not gonna believe this–China actually FORCES people sometimes to not have their children.  Even if they want to have them!  But that doesn’t matter to the State:  the government of China feels it can make the decision for a private citizen as to what kind of reproductive rights that citizen can exercise.  It’s completely insane.  I’m so, so glad that Sarah Palin’s family did not have the State telling  them what choice they’d have to make about that baby.  And it’s not just China.  My gosh, if they lived in South Dakota, even if her daughter wanted an abortion, which by federal law she is entitled to do, she would have a really hard time getting one.  Thank GOD the Palins live in Alaska, where there are no laws telling people that they don’t have the right to make personal medical decisions that were granted by the United States Constitution.  Thank god they don’t live in a country where the State feels it knows better than the individual in this matter.

It’s also so incredibly generous and kind of all the Republicans with the same political agenda as Sarah Palin to be so supportive and compassionate once the baby is born . They are  right there, ready to help raise that baby, ready to help the mother (who is probably single, young, and uneducated) to get monetary assistance, childcare, schooling, psychological support, job training, and so many other valuable benefits that a young, uneducated, unsupported single mother would need.  It’s a lot of work raising a child, especially if it was an unexpected or unplanned child, and the Political Right is right there to help for 18 long years.  I really admire how they all pull together to help in that critical time right after the baby is born and then for its whole life until it’s ready to become a productive member of the State.

Um … what?