Alot of people are more interested in imposing their views and values on everybody else on this subject than they are in the fact that alot of women get ***** or go through pregnancies that put their health at risk. Plus, may sound cold but... my mother has a background in child welfare and I have also seen alot of bad situations. I'll just say, whether it's right or it's wrong, that there's alot of kids out there who never stood a chance concidering what they grew up around. Not just of avoiding a life of crime and poverty, but of not dying due to parental neglect or growing up to head another abusive, neglectful household. Abortion in and of itself isn't an answer, it should involve a combination of promoting abstinence, contraception, and educated, informed abortion as a last resort in specific instances. What scares me most is when the real extremists speak up for a total ban on abortion and a ban on promoting contraception and std preventual measures regardless of circumstances because they think you can tell a bunch of highschool and college kids in 2009 to not have *** until they're 26 and married and go to church instead and that'll solve it all.
As for Pailin, sorry but I missed this secret speach at the beginning of the campaign where she dazzled at her brilliance. When she was stifled and her talking points were restricted it was her own campaign that did it and they did it for the reason. The media seemed to never have a problem letting her speak because it made for such good comedy. I have to wonder if everyone watched the same debates I did. Biden may have made some factual errors here and there, she managed to almost never give an intelligible answer to any question. She got picked because they figured any female VP candidate would be good enough to counterract Obama and if she was hot and charming, so much the better. It put the final nail in Mccain's coffin. If she ever runs for the big seat I will get more deeply involved in grassroots political activism than I ever have my whole life and her opponent would have to be satan reincarnate to loose my vote.