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	\|caption = Bristol Palin (right, holding her baby brother Trig) standing alongside her sisters and ] at an August 29, 2008 rally announcing John ~~MacCain's~~ choosing of her mother to be his pick as his vice residential runningmate		\|caption = Bristol Palin (right, holding her baby brother Trig) standing alongside her sisters and ] at an August 29, 2008 rally announcing ] choosing her mother to be his pick as his vice residential runningmate
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	\|birth_place = Wasilla, Alaska		\|birth_place = Wasilla, Alaska

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Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin (right, holding her baby brother Trig) standing alongside her sisters and father at an August 29, 2008 rally announcing John McCain choosing her mother to be his pick as his vice residential runningmate
Born	(1990-10-18) October 18, 1990 (age 34) Wasilla, Alaska

Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990 and named after Bristol Bay.) is an advocate for abstinance and against teen pregnancy. She is the eldest daughter of Alaska governor and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and Sarah's husband Todd. Currently, she and her son live with her parents in Wasilla, Alaska.

Teen Pregnancy

Palin first received notability on September 1, 2008, the first day of the 2008 Republican National Convention, when it was announced that Palin, 17 at the time, was pregnant and was planning to marry the father of her son, Levi Johnston. Palin appeared along with Johnston at the convention. On December 27, 2008, Palin gave birth to her son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. Palin and Johnston ended their engagement about 2.5 months after the birth of their son.

Palin received her Wasilla High School diploma on May 14, 2009 along with the rest of her classmates.

Abstinence spokesperson

Since the birth of her son, Palin has spoken out on a number of occasions against teens having sex and teenage pregnancy. In 2009 she worked with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy to ask teens to abstain from having sex. Bill Alpert, the Campaign's spokesman, said working with Palin made sense because "she's had the highest-profile teen pregnancy of the year." In May 2009 Palin was named a Teen Abstinence Ambassador for the Candie's Foundation, a teen pregnancy prevention organization. Her duties as a spokeswoman involved attending town hall meetings and giving interviews on morning talk shows. Palin said "Regardless of what I did personally, abstinence is the only ... 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy." Before becoming an abstinence spokeswoman Palin told Fox News that abstinence for teens is "not realistic at all".

Her role as a spokesperson has been controversial. Bonnie Fuller, former editor in chief of YM, has questioned whether the net effect of Bristol's presentations has been to glamorize or discourage teen pregnancy based on the visual imagery.