This weekend’s disclosure that Palin’s 17 year-old daughter is pregnant and marrying the young man should activate millions of young people, their friends, parents and loved ones to act to elect Obama/Biden. Why? Because it paints in stark relief the Republican vision for American youth. I call it “anti-choice cubed”
o Anti-the choice of birth control.
o Anti-choice.
o Anti-the choice of remaining single.
These anti-choice stances are long-standing in the Republican platform. Complacency has kept them away from the top of the political discourse. I hope this weekend’s announcement will bring them front and center.
I grew up in the era of no access to birth control, no access to choice and the assumption of shotgun weddings. I gratefully thought we had left that antiquated era behind…and here it emerges, not in small enclaves, but on the national stage.
It’s bad enough that the Republican vision of trickle-down economics will impede the financial well-being of most Americans. Now, the Republican vision is clear - women are to lose reproductive rights. It is these very rights which, research by the conservative Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, have caused the increase in women’s economic advancement.
Talk about vision for America! I'm supporting Obama. Are you?
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