Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Leave Bristol Alone!

Where's that Britney-loving guy to make a YouTube video about this? The joking facebook groups and plundered MySpace pages have begun, and while, Ok, it's totally funny, I can't help feeling really sick about the whole thing. All this girl did was have a conservative evangelical mom who wants to make a name in politics. Can you really blame her for getting pregnant when she lives in a town of less than 10,000 people where her abstinence-only mom is the most famous resident? How would you like to walk into that only drugstore in town and pick up a box of condoms?

And we are only hearing that she "made the right decision" from her mom, so for all we know she would have liked to have an abortion but it wasn't an option. I would certainly expect that she wouldn't have all her family's "love and support" if that's what she had chosen, especially when her mom won't even support abortion rights in the case of 14 year old rape victims.

It's bad enough that she has to have a kid at 17, marry this Levi guy, and do it all under the scrutiny of everyone in her town. But to have to take shit from the rest of America seems way out of line. She isn't Britney, she didn't choose this for herself, so despite our curiosity, we should really all lay off.

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