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By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  February 19th, 2013 at 10:26 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

A very courageous sixteen-year-old pregnant teen in Texas won her battle to prevent her parents from forcing her to abort her baby. It seems after all the publicity about the case, her parents backed down and agreed to allow their daughter to give birth to the child.

One of the conditions of the agreement is that the daughter will marry the sixteen-year-old father of the child which — in the linked interview — he appears happy to oblige.

Makes you wonder how many other pregnant teens without the support necessary to fight back are forced by their own parents to murder their baby.

As an additional aside, have you filled up your gas tank lately? I paid $4.17 per gallon yesterday here in Cali. The usual reasons for the spiraling upward prices are being given with the foremost excuse being that it’s the time of year when the refineries have to change the “blend” of gas in preparation for summer. In the meantime, Obama takes his sweet time to decide if we can go ahead with the Keystone Pipeline. Hopefully, his latest golf excursion with Tiger Woods gave him the refreshment he needs to make the right decision.

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  • plumely

    Can we find out how much his golf outing with Tiger Woods cost? We need to start racking up the amounts of money that are spent frivolously to show he and his cronies how much of a spending problem we do have. It’s nice how he gets to take a golf vacation on our nickle while the rest of us can’t afford one.

    • westcoastpatriette

      Hey, plumely, did you see this? http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/19/Obama-Spends-8-Hours-with-$1000-hr-Golf-Coach

  • eltuba

    I have a general question for anyone. Does anyone else get messages regarding the sites security certificates when they try to log in. Periodically I’ll get a message saying that the security certificate can’t be verified. Sometimes I have to try different browsers just to get onto RS. Weird.

    • westcoastpatriette

      No. I have never had that happen. Sometimes I have troubling logging in but I never get a message about security certificates. Not sure what that could be. Which browser are you using? I’m on firefox.

    • merrie7137

      Yeah, I get that too. Only happens here at work. We have a security filter that’s turned up pretty high.

  • Kyle-MI

    I am contemplating the idea that military-looking guns might be better for home defense that non-military-looking ones even if the difference is only cosmetic. Place yourself in the shoes of a home invader. Without firing a shot, which type of gun would scare you more? I think any would-be criminal is more likely to leave when confronted by an “assault” weapon. Doesn’t that make these “assault” weapons safer than the other type, both for the criminal as well as the home owner? Doesn’t this line of thinking turn the whole Democrat argument on its head? Scary-looking guns are better just for the physiological effect.

  • merrie7137

    Unfortunately, it was my experience as a young college student that “abortion” is the default option when a teenager gets pregnant. I had a close friend end up pregnant in college and her Rush-Limbaugh-worshipping, bible toting Baptist daddy insisted she have an abortion. She didn’t. I’m sad to say that even my own parents were on record as ready to take me to an abortion clinic should such an embarassing situation occur. If good Christian folks like this are in favor of abortion for their own daughters, what chance does any young woman stand against the college faculty, feminist movement and abortion mill propaganda?

    • Jack_Savage

      I had a close friend in college get pregnant and her communist Obama loving atheist daddy took the baby after it was born and drowned it with a sack full of kittens.
      See how that works? Maybe something other than anecdotes of dubious veracity would make your point a little better.

    • PowerToThePeople

      Stupid runs deep in you does it not lefty? I never like to bust one’s bubble, well I do a little bit, but I bet you sat there all giddy while you typed this just smiling while thinking how clever you are, right? Well dearie, you will never know clever and your comment was stupid enough that my grandson called you a moron.Now he is sitting in the corner because of you.

  • cbartlett

    wcp: Did you see this article by Newt Gingrich about why Karl Rove is “just plain wrong”? He makes some very good points, IMHO. Sure wish I could see other conservatives discuss this in the media. I guess Fox News doesn’t feel like they can alienate Karl because he’s a “contributor”???
    http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/20/gingrich-why-karl-rove-is-just-plain-wrong/

    • westcoastpatriette

      Yes, I just read it. And I think Gingrich is right on most points about the problems in the Republican Party across the board. But especially on the egotistical, non-conservative approach Rove is taking to try to control the primary races. We need to marginalize Rove as much as possible. He is turning out to be a greater to impediment to us than our enemies on the left.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Hey, RedState posting rules! Yea!

    • Bill S

      Well, I’ll be damned. I wonder when that appeared?

      • westcoastpatriette

        I wonder who did it?

        • Bill S

          I’ve been whining about it for weeks. Must have finally floated to the top of someone’s to-do list.