Teen pregnancy: no longer shameful, still a concern.

It may be that the intense media visibility awarded to Bristol Palin’s unintended pregnancy will bring about a shift in public attitudes towards teen’s sex education.
Sarah Palin’s extreme and fundamentalist views on sex education, rape, and recently, on bombing abortion clinics have given these issues prominence in the US presidential election campaign. A successful [...]

Devotion can be spelled P-R-E-V-E-N-T-I-O-N

Birth Pangs recently learned that Levi Johnston, who got Bristol Palin in a family way, attended the Republic National Convention with a new tattoo to flash. As proof of his devotion it is said that he had the name Bristol permanently inked on his left ring finger.
Unfortunately, the reality of Bristol’s pregnancy demonstrates that [...]

Unintended pregnancy: Ooops, I did it again!

This is from the ‘we-just-could-not-make-this-stuff-up’ files. Remember Jamie Lynn Spears? The National Inquirer (your blabbing friends sold you out, JL) is reporting that yup, she is pregnant again. Birth Pangs knows that this is one of the predictable outcomes of teaching Abstinence-Only programs to randy adolescents. For example, this:
The unplanned pregnancy [...]

Bristol Palin couldn’t have been pregnant then because. . .

The New York Times reports:
The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, [...]