A brief note on Sarah Palin which turned into a rant

Sarah Palin’s Alaska Office, image courtesy of The New York Times I would be surprised if you told me you had never heard of Sarah Palin before. Personally I am irritated by the way she is taking press away from Barack Obama when she is the VP candidate and not even the presidential candidate. BUT she is a phenomenon which needs to be addressed. So just some little points on why Sarah Palin should not be hailed and voted for by women. A woman candidate is not the same thing as a woman’s candidate. There are so many reasons why Sarah Palin is against women’s rights. Firstly she cut funding for a program in her state for young women who found themselves pregnant and wanted (or were forced) to carry the pregnancy to term. As the Washington post states in its 2 September article: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. … According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”