If Palin Were President by Francie Brent, age 12
If Sara Palin were President of the United States, I would be as smart as the President of the United States.
If Sara Palin were President, I could understand everything she says, because she doesn't use adult vocabulary.
If Sara Palin were President, then I could be President, too -- right now.
If Sara Palin were President, all the parodies on YouTube would not be funny. In fact, they're not very funny right now because they're not really parodies.
If Sara Palin were President, even girls who would rather hurt their babies than have their parents find out they were pregnant might have to have the babies instead of stopping the pregnancy before it was too late. Some of them might be my age.
If Sara Palin were President, I think she really would believe that the destruction of the habitat of polar bears really was part of the End of Days and what God wants and she would be happy about it, but I don't think that and it makes me feel miserable.
If Sara Palin were President, I might have to do things not even my parents force me to do, such as praying in school.
If Sara Palin were President, it would break the glass ceiling that women can see through but not get through, but all the glass from the ceiling would fall on us.
Francie Brent is my daughter, a seventh grader in Wisconsin. She made these comments while we were baking and freezing Christmas cookies -- a mother-and-daughter activity, across the kitchen table, in the heart of the heart of the country, where liberals who also love their children honor American traditions. Francie was adopted at birth, and comes from a pro-choice family who believes that every abortion is a tragedy.
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Evelyn Sharenov says:
This is an amazing post.
Your daughter is gifted. It's also a difficult post, because her very being depended on a birth mother who believes like Sarah Palin.
Mary Wilkinson says:
But not every abortion is a
But not every abortion is a tragedy. Surely, it is a choice a woman makes depending on her circumstance? Right?
Jacquelyn Mitchard says:
Isn't every abortion a tragedy?
Given that what leads to the abortion -- which may itself be a gift of freedom -- often is a heartbreaking mistake of youth, a crushed hope, a loss or even a crime. Surely, in an ideal world, no one would have to suffer the dilemma each termination of a pregnancy engenders.
Huntington W. Sharp says:
I hesitate to comment...
...because a big part of me believes that men should just keep out of this whole debate, but I think what you're saying is that unintended or problematic pregnancies are tragic. But tragedy is a part of everyone's life, and women must have complete freedom to navigate every aspect of their own lives. That's one of the reason I think it's maliciously absurd that people who would take away that freedom are called "pro-life."
Huntington Sharp, Red Room