Newspapers Examine Reaction To GOP VP Nominee Palin's Announcement Of Daughter's Pregnancy.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Wednesday accepted the vice presidential nomination for the Republican Party at the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., the AP/Washington Post reports (Espo, AP/Washington Post, 9/4). Several print publications recently reported on the reaction to the nomination, as well as the announcement that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant. Summaries appear below.

~ ABC News: ABC News examined how the announcement of Bristol Palin's pregnancy has "reignited" debate over whether abstinence-only education programs, which Palin supports, are effective in curbing teenage pregnancies. According to ABC News, sexual health experts "overwhelmingly" agree that comprehensive sex education programs are a more effective strategy in reducing teen births than abstinence-only programs (Childs, ABC News, 9/3).

~ Miami Herald: The Herald examined views of teen pregnancy among South Florida teens, of whom 7,000 become pregnant annually, as well as parents in the region. According to the Herald, the presence of teen pregnancy in the news has provided an opportunity for parents to discuss sex and pregnancy with their children (Kaleem, Miami Herald, 9/4).

~ New York Daily News: The "unwed pregnancy" of Bristol Palin "has been spun" by Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's (Ariz.) "message-managers as an example of strong family values," the Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, the "muted, nonjudgmental" reaction of social conservative leaders lies in contrast to conservatives' praise of former Vice President Dan Quayle's (R) criticism in 1992 of the show "Murphy Brown," in which the title character had a child out of wedlock (DeFrank, New York Daily News, 9/4).

~ New York Times: Reporting on Bristol's plans to marry the father of her child, the Times cites studies that show teenage marriages today are two to three times more likely to end in divorce than marriages between people ages 25 or older. According to the Times, even some experts who "acknowledge that teenage marriage is a risky proposition" said that marriage is a "healthier choice" for the pregnant woman than single motherhood (Kershaw, New York Times, 9/4).

~ Philadelphia Inquirer: The Inquirer examines whether the public's perception of teen pregnancy has changed in light of Palin's daughter's pregnancy and other recent high-profile teen pregnancies (Pompilio, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/4).

~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The "'Mommy Wars' -- the seemingly endless debate over whether mothers should work or stay home with their kids" -- has "erupted" over the choice of Palin as McCain's running mate, the Post-Gazette reports. According to the Post-Gazette, many women can relate to Palin's situation, considering that the most recent government statistics available show that nearly two-thirds of mothers in the country with preschool-age children were in the work force in 2003 (Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/3).

Broadcast Coverage

~ NPR's "Tell Me More" on Wednesday included a discussion on the media and public reaction to Palin's vice presidential nomination. The segment includes comments from women's rights advocate Swanee Hunt, conservative commentator Janice Crouse and abortion-rights advocate Ellen Moran ("Tell Me More," NPR, 9/3).

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Palin case highlights teenage pregnancy

The BBC news website looks at the problem of teenage pregnancy in the US after the revelation that the 17-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor and new Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant.

The US is said to have one of the worst annual rates of teenage pregnancies in the developed world.

According to a report by Population Action International, published at the end of last year, there were 44 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 in the US for 2000-2005.

This compares with figures in the UK - itself said to be the country with the worst teenage pregnancy rate in Europe - of 27 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19.

Put differently, America is estimated to have some 750,000 teenage pregnancies a year.

According to America's leading health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): "About one-third of girls in the United States get pregnant before age 20."
More than 80% of births in this group "were unintended, meaning they occurred sooner than desired or were not wanted at any time", the CDC said.

Separately, in a report on 2002 data, the CDC said: "Despite the continuous declines, the US teenage pregnancy rate is still among the highest among industrialised nations.

"The costs of teenage childbearing in the United States are substantial.

"The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy recently estimated that $9.1bn in public funding was expended on teenage childbearing in 2004. These costs include public assistance, healthcare, child welfare and other expenses."

There is a debate state-side as to the reason for this high pregnancy rate.

The US offers government funding for health education programmes that promote sexual abstinence until marriage, although US lawmakers were investigating earlier this year whether to cut the funding.

State governments receive federal money they must match to fund abstinence programmes.

Opponents of abstinence education say the approach ignores the fact that teenagers are sexually active and fails to give them accurate medical information or advice on safer sex.

Governor Palin herself has said she opposes funding sexual-education programmes in Alaska and has supported abstinence programmes in schools.

"The explicit sex-ed programmes will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates, the Associated Press reports.

A social conservative who is opposed to abortion, she said in a statement her daughter Bristol would keep the child and was to get married.

And in 2005, presidential candidate John McCain, who picked Mrs Palin as his running mate, opposed a Senate Democratic proposal that would have spent tens of millions of dollars to pay for pregnancy prevention programmes other than abstinence-only education, including education on emergency contraception such as the morning-after pill, AP reports.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7593735.stm

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