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 Bristol Palin (right, holding her baby brother Trig) standing alongside her sisters and father at an August 29, 2008 rally announcing John MacCain's choosing of 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 28, 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 spokeswoman
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.
References
- Baxter, Sarah (September 28, 2008). "McCain camp prays for Palin wedding". The Times. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
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- Monica Davey (September 2,2008). "Palin Daughter's Pregnancy Interrupts G.O.P. Convention Script". New York Times.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Bristol Palin gives birth to a boy, Seattle Times, December 30, 2008
- Kaufman, Gil (October 13, 2008). "Sarah Palin's Future Son-In-Law Levi Johnston Denies He's Being Forced To Marry Bristol". MTV. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
- No Surprises From Palin, McCain Team Says, The Washington Post, September 2, 2008
- Associated Press (December 29, 2008). "Palin's Daughter Gives Birth to Son Named Tripp". Fox News.
- "Palin engagement over". The Age. Associated Press. March 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- "Bristol Palin graduates from high school". Associateed Press. Retrieved 2009-17-05.
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- Candie's foundation
- Collins, Gail (May 6, 2009). "Bristol Palin's New Gig". The New York Times. New York: The New York Times Company. Retrieved May 14, 2009.
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{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - Gibbs, Nancy (May 8, 2009). "In Defense of Bristol Palin, Abstinence Spokeswoman". Time. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- Hedley, Caroline (May 7, 2009). "Bristol Palin campaigns for teenage abstinence". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- Contessa Brewer, David Shuster, Bonnie Fuller. MSNBC interview of Bonnie Fuller (Television). New York: MSNBC.
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