Tuesday, September 02, 2008

What does John McCain Think?


Your daughter is a sixteen year old girl is brutily raped and becomes pregnant. Who decides the course of the life of the the sixteen year old child? Is it the mother, the father? The family as a whole or the daughter alone?
Sarah Palin is against abortion for any reason other then the health of the mother. But that begs the question as the extend of "the health of the mother" is it the life and death decision made on an operating table at the moment of birth. Or does it extend into the emotional, pyshcological and finanical, going forward.
Palin has said in the senerios above that "I would choose life." But her unilateral discision with out even a nod to conciltation with her daughter may be example of her superior "executive experience" but it totally disregards the felling of the daughter that was raped.
I think it has to be the decision of the person who is pregnant. The decision as to whether a person's genes go on is a personal decision that no government can impose on anyone. The right to procreate or not is the definition of privacy