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After reading this, I couldn’t help but laugh a little to myself. While I can certainly appreciate some part of Palin’s message about providing a positive message to young women caught in such a difficult situation, and I share the desire that something as awful as abortion could someday find its way back out of our society, I can’t help but wonder how someone like Palin can’t see her own hypocrisy.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where a young woman who has a child can continue, under the difficult circumstances so prevalent among single mothers, to properly care for her child while pursuing her own ambitions or even more modest aspirations of a better life for herself and her child through education  and consequently better employment opportunities.
The hypocrisy comes from the conservative attitude about providing access to these institutions for the poor. From one side of their mouth, they preach the “she can do it” mantra, while on the other side they take away all the help and support. This is a typical paradox of conservative thought; consistently seeking to put the onus of responsibility on the individual while failing to provide equal access to the basic institutions of social mobility.
Would that we lived in a world where the financial means of your parents wasn’t the greatest indicator of your own chances for success, I myself would adopt a great deal more interest in placing accountability on the individual. We fail to provide a fair means of overcoming the hardships of poverty, however, and still there are those that want to punish the stragglers of society.
Seems that fault and responsibility are important right up to the moment that someone actually has to assume responsibility; then all that ever matters is fault.
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