Palin's Line by Line Veto of Cutting Funds to Unwed Mothers
Sarah Palin’s support of her unwed teen daughter is in contrast to how she governs her state of Alaska. In April the Alaska legislature passed a bill where she actually reduced funding to a program for Covenant House and cut the funding 40 percent from 5 million to 3.9 million.
Covenant House has programs such as shelters for women and troubled young people, a home for teenage girls who are pregnant or have delivered their babies. Passage House is a place for pregnant teenage girls to get counseling and helps teenage women who are transitioning to motherhood and provides a stable environment for their infant children.
Palin did a line by line veto and made changes to reduce funding to these programs in addition she cut funds by as much as 50 percent to the Fairbanks Community Food program. The cuts Palin made to the Community Food Program which gives food to certified recipients such as infants, children and women who are in hardship in the interior of Alaska and is the only food drive available to these groups. Why would Sarah Palin cut funding to the most needy especially infants and poor women when she claims to be a champion of women’s causes and is appealing to Hillary Clinton female voters? These women deserve a helping hand up and the resources to give them the needed skills to lead a better life.
The programs at Passage House help young moms to develop and learn skills such as how to manage money, healthy parent skills, setting their priorities and developing social skills to give them the opportunities to succeed in their new role as a parent. Namely these programs are aimed at young women and teenage girls and their children. The Transitional Living Programs also teaches young mothers how to find and apply for jobs, and gives them counseling through a mentoring program with 24 hour support staff.
Sarah Palin’s cutting the funding to these necessary programs for young pregnant teen mothers contradicts the support she says she will give her daughter and the family values that she claims to have for pro-lifers. What is so Pro-Life about this?
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The Associated Press reports on September 2, 2008 that John McCain does not support grants for sex education because the programs include the use of birth control and supports President Bush’s views on promoting abstinence.
It does appear that Sarah Palin, John McCain or George Bush will not support pregnant mothers who are having children and yet for her daughter Bristol Palin publicly announced her support and will look after the needs for her baby. Voters should take into account that Sarah Palin “talks the talk but does not walk the walk” when it comes to supporting programs to help women especially pregnant teenage younger women.
John McCain’s claim that he does not follow George Bush’s policies does not also appear to be truthful especially when it comes to programs that help pregnant women. These pro-life policies do not make sense since it protects the life of the unborn child, but once they are born there is no assistance or the funding is cut in a state which makes billions of dollars in oil revenues.
Palin herself had a Down syndrome child that needs special care however she cuts funding for other people’s children that need food, and shelter if they are born to a pregnant teenage girl.
Palin’s own needs and childcare will be provided by the government should she succeed in becoming the Vice-President it will be paid for by the taxpayers.
In essence the McCain Palin programs will forbid birth control, prevents abortions and yet if a young teenage girl other than Bristol Palin has a baby, she will not have the support and funding for her or her child to get on her feet again. The McCain-Palin policies are almost purposefully keeping women “barefoot and pregnant” which is a patriarchal regressive view in today’s world. John McCain was also noted for cutting funding to educated young people on sex education and contraceptives and supported Bush on his policy of abstinence. It doesn’t appear that the Governor did a good job of edumacation of her own daughter.
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Reference: The Washingtonpost.com
