GRANDMA PALIN: ABSTINENCE ONLY & BABIES LIKE TRIPP

                                                                                               

When now Grandma Palin ran for Governor in 2006, she said she would support funding for abstinence-only education in schools, according to Eagle Forum Alaska, a group that sent a questionnaire asking gubernatorial candidates their views on a range of issues.
Governor Palin's view that the only thing to teach teens is to Just Say No reflects her party's 2008 platform position: "Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases."
Enter Tripp Palin. Baby son of teenage high school dropouts Bristol Palin and boyfriend Levi.  
New research shows that teens like teen mom Bristol who are taught to pledge abstinence ... rather than use birth control ... don't tend to abstain.
An article by researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the January issue of Pediatrics says teenagers who pledge not to have sex before marriage are not less likely than teens who don't make such a pledge to have sex. "Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior," the researcher concluded.
The one big difference between the two groups is that those teens who swear not to have sex are less likely to use birth control to protect against pregnancy and desease when they go ahead and do it. Read the full article in the Washington Post here.
Well, here's betting Grandma Palin draws a bright line between what life teaches and her policy preferences; proclaims unbounded pride about her new grandson; and, throws a nice white Alaskan wedding now that the time for a shotgun weddin' has expired.