Sarah Palin sacrifices the rights of young women in Alaska to pander to her conservative base in anticipation of 2012.

State legislators are talking about compromising on a major abortion battle over parental consent, but Gov. Sarah Palin isn't interested in the deal.

The compromise under discussion would be legislation that requires parental notification but not consent. That means parents would have to be told about their teenager's plan to have an abortion but wouldn't have to give their permission for it to happen.

North Pole Republican Rep. John Coghill, with Palin's backing, is still pushing for the full version generally requiring parental consent before girls under age 17 could get an abortion. But the state Senate blocked a similar bill last year and, without the compromise, it's hard to see how that wouldn't happen again.

Everything that Governor Palin has done in the months since she returned from being McCain's running mate has been about positioning herself to run against Barack Obama in 2012.

Many of us hoped that when she returned she might return as the Sarah Palin who was ready to work with Democrats, the Sarah Palin who knew how to compromise, the Sarah Palin who at least pretended to care about Alaskans. But every single move she has made is a clear nod to the most conservative Republicans in the GOP. In other words the base that she needs to support her when she tries to win the Presidency.

She refuses to life a finger to help the indigenous people of Alaska as they struggle to survive horrendous circumstances. She defensively pounds her fists on the ground and name calls when she is called on her unethical behaviors. She essentially insinuates that her running mate John McCain was not a Christian by claiming that nobody would pray with her. And she nominates an anti-native rights, gun toting, big red hummer driving jackass to be her new Attorney General. And NONE of this does a single thing to help the people who elected her as Governor.

You would have to have your head buried pretty deep into the tundra not to realize that Sarah Palin is "just not that into us anymore". We were her little junior high school crush, but now she is hoping to go steady with a cool college guy and she does not even want to acknowledge that she once had feelings for us.

Simply put, regardless of our moral, religious, or political points of view we do not have the right to tell a young woman what to do with her body. Nor do we have the right to stack the deck to keep her from making a decision that she feels is in her best interests.

Remember that most teen mothers do not get to spend their pregnancies traveling across the country being pampered by campaign workers, or are invited to go on Greta Van Susteren to talk about how much support they have before dumping their boyfriend, or are comfortably sequestered out of sight so as not to interfere with their mother's political aspirations now that they have served their purpose.

Many teen mothers find themselves ostracized by their family members, forced to seek employment when they have not even finished their education, and struggling to raise a child when they are still children themselves.

And as the parent of a teen mother one would think that Sarah Palin would be far more sensitive to the pain that these young women have to go through once they discover that their lives have changed forever. And would afford them the respect to allow them make the decision that they feel is best for them.

But hey what do I know? I am just the product of teen pregnancy and the father of a twenty one year old woman.