The Palin pregnancy and abstinence education

Katie Primm and Mark Murray of the notoriously leftward leaning NBC are screeching about Sarah Palin's support for abstinence education....

Palin backed abstinence-only education during her 2006 gubernatorial race. In an Eagle Forum Alaska questionnaire, Palin gave this response to the following question:

Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for [sic] explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?

Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.

Much of the original story has now been edited since it contained many factual errors. One omission, though, remains. Palin's opinion regarding education policy is moot, if that policy was not implemented in her daughter's education. So where exactly did Bristol Palin go to school?

We find the answer in the New York Daily News...

Mark Okeson, the assistant principal at Wasilla High School, told the Chicago Tribune that Bristol started her junior year last fall, in the town where Sarah Palin grew up.

He said Bristol inexplicably transferred to an Anchorage high school midyear, leaving Levi behind.

So while Sarah Palin supported abstinence education, her daughter went to a government school. The content of the sex ed course at Wasilla and Anchorage high schools would also have a bearing on Bristol's attitude toward the sanctity of marriage. Any parent can tell you that their ability to instill value in their children is severely limited when that child spends 6 to 7 hours a day, 5 days a week under the guidance of other people.

BTW, I attempted to comment on the MSNBC article linked to above. It's been over 24 hours and my comment has yet to appear. Apparently NBC doesn't like the idea of people filling in the blanks in the propaganda pieces.

UPDATE:

Irene Jay Liu did some footwork and reports...

When asked what type of sex curriculum existed at Wasilla, Assistant Principal Mark Okeson said the school has a health curriculum that includes a sex education component. When asked whether the curriculum was abstinence-only, Okeson said, “I’m not sure…I don’t believe so. This subject has not come up for a long time. I don’t believe we have an abstinence-only course.”

He said he believe that the school strives for a sex-ed curriculum that is “middle-of-the road,” and added, “I would assume that contraception would be a part of any health curriculum.”

Expect this to be roundly ignored by the dimwits in the MSM.

Posted by Danny Carlton at September 2, 2008 12:34 PM