Every day in America, a few hundred (or thousand) lose the roll of the dice and become pregnant.

Some families, confronted with a daughter’s undesired pregnancy, opt for an abortion.

Other families, although equally anguished, do not believe in abortion for religious or moral reasons and opt to let the pregnancy continue.

Some families give the baby up for adoption, others cannot bear to part with the own family member and opt to keep and raise it.

In those cases, a heavy burden falls on the girl who is now still a teen-ager, with all the desire to be free to have fun that most teenagers have. But they soon learn that is all over for them and it is now time to take care of the baby 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

What might seem “adult” and/or somewhat glamorous to other teens – having a baby of one’s own – is anything but. It is hard work and long hours. Oh yes, there is the joy of the darling baby, but it is still long hours and hard work.

I can imagine how difficult it must be to be that young, not married, not even planning to marry any time soon, but trapped by biology.

You see, the young man who did the impregnating is still foot loose and fancy free to go on with his life, untouched by the scandal and unburdened by the responsibility of caring for the baby all day every day.

Bristol Palin has had the frightening experience of having a sexual encounter result in the birth of a baby; she clearly loves the child dearly but is also painfully aware that it is hard work and not glamorous. So, she has set a task for herself that is to be admired: she is using her experience to talk to other teen girls and alert them to the possible consequences of engaging in sex. She is telling them that the only safe way to avoid a pregnancy is to avoid engaging in intercourse.

I applaud her efforts. Her life has been permanently altered by this pregnancy. She is urging other young women and girls to think hard about their choices when it comes to sex and relationships. As a woman, I am very familiar with the pressure put on young girls to “prove” their love for their partner. Bristol Palin is trying to open the eyes of girls to the possible price they may have to pay for “proving” their love for their male partner by engaging in intercourse.

That is hardly something to condemn Bristol Palin for doing … nor should it be cause to make her the butt of tasteless jokes by dirty old men, who tell their jokes to get rich and famous without any concern for those whom they have ridiculed mercilessly.

At this moment in time, the best thing David Letterman could do for humanity would be to devote one entire show to hosting a serious discussion of teenage pregnancy and how it affects the lives of those caught in an unplanned-for teenage pregnancy.

In any contest, right now, between Bristol Palin and David Letterman as to which one is trying harder to do a good thing, Bristol wins hands down.

What a pig.

Also, these guys got away with overt sexism during the election and now they are on a roll….Violence against women in on the rise. It all comes down to respect for women–which guys like DL don’t have….

I’m not popular because of my Obama dislike lately

Have you thought of just talking to people instead of, you know, what you usually do?

His explanation made him look just as perverted.

That’s exactly how his “explanation” affected me. Craig Crawford on Olbermann sounded equally perverted as he smirked and snickered, saying Palin probably loved the limelight. Olbermann added that he had so much respect for Letterman. These creeps are really showing us who they are beneath the veneer –and it’s a bunch of misogynists.

The silence of all the women’s rights groups in this country is deafening.

Wonder how quickly they’d chime in if some comedian offered a little, sick, unfunny joke about Malia Obama becoming pregnant? Real funny, huh? Or if David Letterman’s son was the target? The silence of those groups I once thought of as watchdogs has been a real eye opener.
I am fuming over this, but other than refusing to watch Letterman (which I did a long time ago) I don’t know what else can be done to stop those on the Left from continuing to target the Palin family.