When I first heard Ms. Palin's acceptance speech - the one she gave at Washington, PA,( not the acceptance speech at GOP convention in MN) the only though that came to me was "boy she is a narcissist". Her acceptance speech was all about herself and her kids and husband. Too much yapping and goofed up talk with not much substance.
Even before I could get over the fact that her choice was purely on the merit that, one she was a woman and two she was for pro-life, came the news that she choose to give birth to a down syndrome baby. While this in itself was hard to digest we were bombarded with the news of a pregnant teen-age Palin sibling. All this with in two days of acceptance speech in PA, this was giving the Republican Party a much needed talk across America.
So lets walk over a few of Palin's conviction in life and in general what does it tell us about the future vice presidential contender.
Ms. Palin takes pride in being pro-life, and just what on earth is pro-life? The answer varies depending on the demographic the question was given to. My stance on pro-life is - yes, we should value life, the one you have been given to live in this wonderful world. But I would not want to live in a society where unwanted pregnancy is made to go through the whole term in the name of pro-life. I believe this choice is for the woman in question to make.
Pregnancy brings its own complications and changes in a woman's life in terms of varying levels hormones, ups and downs in emotions to physical changes and trying to adjust to the fact that she is going to give life to a new being. This experience in itself should be wholesome and the one that a woman looks forward to. It is enduring to say that no man on earth can match this amazing power to give life (let me correct that statement by adding .....no man can give life unless you are an Oprah Man). So I was saying, every woman wants to go through this wonderful experience. It would be lame to say an educated, career oriented woman doesn't want to be a mother, only she wants to have a kid when she is willing - physically, mentally and more important financially and above all with whomever she wishes to have this kid with.
In America teenage pregnancy is among the highest in developed societies as high as 44 in every 1000 and we have 73 million kids in this country. You do the math on number of pregnancies.
It is a staggering figure by any means. US probably is the only developed country in the world where a personal choice of pro-life, pro-choice, religious choice and last but not the least sexual orientation defines majority of it's citizen's reasoning to elect a president ( atleast the last two elections proved this like no other) rather than the over all approach of a party, on how the party works towards empowering its citizens, economics, foreign policies, providing affordable health care, revive the education system or going green.
What does a party achieve by advocating for pro-life? Let’s try to analyze this. It is a well known fact that our teenagers are sexually active as early as 13 and 12. Hypothetically let’s assume a teenage kid gets pregnant. What happens next? The advocates of pro-life will want the kid to go through the full term of pregnancy and deliver the child. Now how does this affect the society and more importantly the girl? She most likely is given an opportunity to attend a school for mothers and may be the boy who is responsible for the pregnancy does the same towards moral support. I don't see this going much further than this. Even before these teenage parents get out of their teens they would be going their own ways may be the infant ends up in foster care or is left at the mercy of grand parents or at the door step of an orphanage.
On the other hand lets suppose the teenage parents choose to be together and go through the ups and downs of life together. Most likely one of them will stay at home and the other will attend college. Let’s assume the girl stays at home and boy attends college (you can reverse the scenario too, but I assumed the general practice here). With the pressures of raising a family, work and school most likely he will discontinue mid-way. But he will be discontinuing not only school but the very chance to succeed in life, because no matter what, he will leave with a staggering student loan. Now that he has not finished his schooling it’s even worse as it will take more than a life time to repay the academic loan for an education that went futile.
Now we have a family of three (assuming they did not have any kids, for analysis lets say they practiced abstinence - its quite unlikely but what the heck )mother - a school drop-out, a baby and a father who is a college drop-out. Apart from this the family has to endure - raising living expenses, doctors /hospital bills, utilities /rent etc, Oh! Not
to forget the student loan. The very thought of a situation as this, is un-comforting and very heart breaking. But the fact remains - there are many kids out there who fall into this walk of life just for the fact that they were not given a choice in the name of religion and pro-life.
All that pro-life does, when it is forced on a society is weaken the society. The politicians know this very well and they play this song of pro-life in tune with our saga of life. It is an accepted fact that we tend to pray in the time of need, when things are not working well for us. During tiring times like these we tend to seek solace in a religious institutions, church incase of America as it being a Christian state, is where the boy or the girl will end up not able to tackle life, to be one with God and almighty that listens to everyone. Guess what, the pastor is right there waiting for you to arrive and preach his way to pro-life, Christ is the only God and marriage is between man and a woman!
Does something ring a bell? The republicans in America are very strong and rich community. But the rich republicans make for hardly 5% of the population. Hence to be in power and double their oil, armaments, pharmaceutical or any other investment profits, they need a government that protects their means and the very approach they take is by limiting the cognitive powers of the society.
The only ones who loose in this race are the common man like you and me, the evangelical have achieved their goal by converting people, the filthy rich have safe guarded their personal interests in the name of religion. But we tend to forget the scores of Tom, Dick and Harry , Marry, Anna and Terry who followed the crowd to see the twilight zone that never was and were taken for a ride. We pay the price and keep praying.
While we are asked to pray our way in and out through our misery and sorrows, every day we are made to believe to work hard and have faith. But unfortunately for us God doesn’t help the ones who do not help themselves. We are made not only to believe but also to assume that one day the bounty of the happiness & wealth will trickle down. While we wait in expectation for this to happen it is the very Halliburton’s and Exxon-mobile's and Blackstone's make their wallets heavy.
It is a vicious circle where the one with rein withholds all philosophies of life in the name of religion. You are made to believe that there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel, when the very tunnel you are in becomes your daily diasporas of your life.
Wake up and realize your dreams. Religion and state should not be combined together. One should be religious in his/her actions, but religion should never be the sole guiding factor in your life.
Hence the republicans your choice of Ms. Palin translates to the plain truth that it is not your stance on religion that you should be advocating or rather marketing. It is the public good that you can do, the harmony that you can bring in society, foreign relation that you can mend - these are the issues that matter more than morality behind the stem cell and pro-life choices.
Pregnancy brings its own complications and changes in a woman's life in terms of varying levels hormones, ups and downs in emotions to physical changes and trying to adjust to the fact that she is going to give life to a new being. This experience in itself should be wholesome and the one that a woman looks forward to. It is enduring to say that no man on earth can match this amazing power to give life (let me correct that statement by adding .....no man can give life unless you are an Oprah Man). So I was saying, every woman wants to go through this wonderful experience. It would be lame to say an educated, career oriented woman doesn't want to be a mother, only she wants to have a kid when she is willing - physically, mentally and more important financially and above all with whomever she wishes to have this kid with.
In America teenage pregnancy is among the highest in developed societies as high as 44 in every 1000 and we have 73 million kids in this country. You do the math on number of pregnancies.
It is a staggering figure by any means. US probably is the only developed country in the world where a personal choice of pro-life, pro-choice, religious choice and last but not the least sexual orientation defines majority of it's citizen's reasoning to elect a president ( atleast the last two elections proved this like no other) rather than the over all approach of a party, on how the party works towards empowering its citizens, economics, foreign policies, providing affordable health care, revive the education system or going green.
What does a party achieve by advocating for pro-life? Let’s try to analyze this. It is a well known fact that our teenagers are sexually active as early as 13 and 12. Hypothetically let’s assume a teenage kid gets pregnant. What happens next? The advocates of pro-life will want the kid to go through the full term of pregnancy and deliver the child. Now how does this affect the society and more importantly the girl? She most likely is given an opportunity to attend a school for mothers and may be the boy who is responsible for the pregnancy does the same towards moral support. I don't see this going much further than this. Even before these teenage parents get out of their teens they would be going their own ways may be the infant ends up in foster care or is left at the mercy of grand parents or at the door step of an orphanage.
On the other hand lets suppose the teenage parents choose to be together and go through the ups and downs of life together. Most likely one of them will stay at home and the other will attend college. Let’s assume the girl stays at home and boy attends college (you can reverse the scenario too, but I assumed the general practice here). With the pressures of raising a family, work and school most likely he will discontinue mid-way. But he will be discontinuing not only school but the very chance to succeed in life, because no matter what, he will leave with a staggering student loan. Now that he has not finished his schooling it’s even worse as it will take more than a life time to repay the academic loan for an education that went futile.
Now we have a family of three (assuming they did not have any kids, for analysis lets say they practiced abstinence - its quite unlikely but what the heck )mother - a school drop-out, a baby and a father who is a college drop-out. Apart from this the family has to endure - raising living expenses, doctors /hospital bills, utilities /rent etc, Oh! Not
to forget the student loan. The very thought of a situation as this, is un-comforting and very heart breaking. But the fact remains - there are many kids out there who fall into this walk of life just for the fact that they were not given a choice in the name of religion and pro-life.
All that pro-life does, when it is forced on a society is weaken the society. The politicians know this very well and they play this song of pro-life in tune with our saga of life. It is an accepted fact that we tend to pray in the time of need, when things are not working well for us. During tiring times like these we tend to seek solace in a religious institutions, church incase of America as it being a Christian state, is where the boy or the girl will end up not able to tackle life, to be one with God and almighty that listens to everyone. Guess what, the pastor is right there waiting for you to arrive and preach his way to pro-life, Christ is the only God and marriage is between man and a woman!
Does something ring a bell? The republicans in America are very strong and rich community. But the rich republicans make for hardly 5% of the population. Hence to be in power and double their oil, armaments, pharmaceutical or any other investment profits, they need a government that protects their means and the very approach they take is by limiting the cognitive powers of the society.
The only ones who loose in this race are the common man like you and me, the evangelical have achieved their goal by converting people, the filthy rich have safe guarded their personal interests in the name of religion. But we tend to forget the scores of Tom, Dick and Harry , Marry, Anna and Terry who followed the crowd to see the twilight zone that never was and were taken for a ride. We pay the price and keep praying.
While we are asked to pray our way in and out through our misery and sorrows, every day we are made to believe to work hard and have faith. But unfortunately for us God doesn’t help the ones who do not help themselves. We are made not only to believe but also to assume that one day the bounty of the happiness & wealth will trickle down. While we wait in expectation for this to happen it is the very Halliburton’s and Exxon-mobile's and Blackstone's make their wallets heavy.
It is a vicious circle where the one with rein withholds all philosophies of life in the name of religion. You are made to believe that there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel, when the very tunnel you are in becomes your daily diasporas of your life.
Wake up and realize your dreams. Religion and state should not be combined together. One should be religious in his/her actions, but religion should never be the sole guiding factor in your life.
Hence the republicans your choice of Ms. Palin translates to the plain truth that it is not your stance on religion that you should be advocating or rather marketing. It is the public good that you can do, the harmony that you can bring in society, foreign relation that you can mend - these are the issues that matter more than morality behind the stem cell and pro-life choices.
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