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Not to really defend Sarah Palin all that vigorously, but...
I don't think that one can hold her accountable for the actions of her daughter, or hold the actions of her daughter up as some sort of example of the shortcomings of abstinence only education. I put myself in situations where I could have knocked someone up when I was a teenager, and I got comprehensive sex ed at multiple grade levels. They only way abstinence only education could have played a role in Bristol Palin getting knocked up would if it had resulted in her being either unaware that babies come from sex (seems unlikely) or unaware of the existence of prophylactics (also seems unlikely).
And I'm not sure that the ability for a person to transfer core values to their offspring is a reasonable yardstick for the evaluation of that person's personal integrity. My dad is a pastor, and a man of pretty substantial integrity. I'm essentially an atheist. My dad's inability to transfer his belief in god to me has nothing to do with his ability as a parent, or his integrity as a Christian.
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