Sarah Palin comes out in favor of parental consent for abortions.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is backing legislation that would require parental consent for a minor to have an abortion in Alaska.

Palin has voiced strong anti-abortion views, which endeared her to social conservatives in the recent presidential race, but has not pushed that agenda until now.

The bill would revise the Parental Consent Act passed by the Legislature in 1997, which was overturned 3-2 by the Alaska Supreme Court in 2007. The court held that the parental consent requirement was unconstitutional because it infringed on a pregnant teen's right to reproductive freedom.

The court is more conservative now with a Palin-appointee replacing a justice who cast a vote to overturn.

Gee we almost went an entire day without the Palinator raising her evil head.

So now she is going to decide that young women cannot be in charge of their own bodies until they are old enough to leave their parents houses? You know lady not every mother is willing to strap on an empathy belly and pretend to be pregnant to protect their little snowflake from the embarrassment of being a unwed teenage mother. (Of course in Governor Sarah's case that is a one time offer, for the second pregnancy it is national ridicule and a trip under the bus tires for you.) Some young women may actually be expected to raise the product of their drunken prom fling while working at Hooters five nights a week to pay for baby formula and diapers.

Alaska judges have already found this law to be unconstitutional and just because Palin managed to find one of her Palinistas to join the Alaska Supreme Court does not make it right to revisit this issue.

Look I know this whole thing is controversial, and I am just a man so my opinion matters very little, but I work with many of the children who have been abandoned by mothers who found out that making a baby was a lot more fun then raising one.

The idea that every unwanted child will automatically be adopted by some loving family that is desperate to provide them a home, a college education, and a trust fund, is huge pile of horse shit.

The reality is that a number of these children end up being dumped on the very grandmother who refused to let their baby girl have a tiny bundle of cells removed from her body, while the young mother tries to grow up fast enough to both care for the child and also find some poor schmuck that will stand in for the absentee father.

Or if not that then the child ends up in the foster care system when the teenage mothers unsophisticated attempts to parent them damages the child to the point that they become unmanageable. Then the child finds themselves shuffled from one home full of people who want to be called "Mommy" and "Daddy" to another asking for the same privilege but ready to expel them the minute they do not turn out to be some version of the little boy from "Leave it to Beaver". The foster care system in Alaska is literally bursting at the seams.

And sure the third scenario is that they actually give birth to a beautiful healthy baby that they still find the strength to give up so that it can be adopted by a family that cannot have one of their own. But that scenario works out best when your child is Caucasian. If your baby is an Alaskan native, or African American, or some other less desirable minority, the chances of that perfect solution is greatly reduced. I mean Angelina Jolie cannot adopt every unwanted child in the world.

I know I am coming off a little insensitive here, but nothing could be further from the truth.

You see I have cared for these children that are left behind. I have taught them to read when they were seven years old and nobody ever took the time to even help them learn the alphabet. I have held them as they cried when the scheduled visit with their biological parents fell through again because mom was too high to show up. I have advocated for their rights when it seemed nobody else could care less. And I have taught them that not all grownups make promises that they cannot keep.

I never talk about my jobs on this blog, but trust that I have earned the right to say that if you have any doubt about whether you want to be a parent, then DON'T BE ONE. Being a parent is not something you can try for awhile and then quit when it proves too hard. Being a parent when you are a child yourself means that you will always feel you have had something stolen from you, and you may even blame your own baby. Being an unwed mother means that you not only have to find somebody who loves, you, but also somebody who loves the baby that you made while loving somebody else. Nothing about it is easy.

And nobody should have the right to make you do it, if you are not ready. Not even the Governor.

Bristol Palin herself said that teaching "abstinence only" is not realistic. And that may be the smartest thing to come out of a Palin's mouth in years.

So yeah teenagers are gong to have sex. Tell them to wait until marriage if you want to , but also teach them that if they are going to have sex (and they are), to be responsible with their irresponsibility and wear a condom, take the pill, put in a diaphragm, and hell keep a fire extinguisher by the bed while you are at it as well. In other words just take as many precautions as humanly possible.

Because choices made as a teenager should not change our lives forever.