Palin Cut Programs to Help Teenage Moms

By Eric on September 2, 2008

Bristol Palin is fortunate to be the governor’s daughter, because Sarah Palin couldn’t care less about teenage mothers:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation — “SP” — Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”

Compassionate conservatism: banning birth control and leaving teenage moms out in the cold.

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Update: Atrios agrees:

Just think about this one for a moment. Palin is rabidly anti-choice, wanting it to be illegal in all cases except when the mother’s life is threatened. This is a program which provides housing for teen mothers “in need of a place to live,” presumably due to the fact that their parents and sperm donors are somewhat less than supportive. Despite this, these young women choose (that word!) to have their babies. And the program which might give them, and their newborns, a place to live is something Palin cuts the funding for. Maybe they can go live with the bears.

Tags: 2008, abstinence only sex education, pregnancy, Sarah Palin

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1. [...] if opposing birth control, insisting on abstinance-only sex “education”, and cutting programs to help teenage mothers wasn’t bad enough, Sarah Palin, as Mayor of Wasilla, forced rape victims to pay for the cost [...]

   —Under Palin, Wasilla Charged Rape Victims for Rape Kits • CrazyDrumGuy on September 8, 2008 at 11:09 pm

2. [...] if opposing birth control, insisting on abstinance-only sex “education”, and cutting programs to help teenage mothers wasn’t bad enough, Sarah Palin, as Mayor of Wasilla, forced rape victims to pay for the cost [...]

   —Under Palin, Wasilla Charged Rape Victims for Rape Kits on September 8, 2008 at 11:10 pm