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Teens Respond To Palin’s Daughter's Pregnancy

In Los Angeles's Echo Park neighborhood, you can often find teen moms walking down the street with strollers. Among them is 18-year-old Silvia Figueroa, whose daughter is one month and 11 days old. Figueroa says she heard something about Bristol Palin on the news but didn't think much of it. "Seventeen's not a big deal. A lot of girls get pregnant at that age," she says. "Most of the girls do it; I don't know why they make it a big thing. And that doesn't have anything to do with politics."

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Comment: Praise the Lord that Bristol Palin did not hide or abort her baby! Encouragment saves lives, but shame and rejection send teens "underground" with a pregnancy and feeds into the fear-inducing lie that their lives will be "ruined" by a pregnancy. Compassion and love, along with a challenge to change behavior and turn to Christ, is the best way to ensure that life gets chosen by a woman and her partner!