Secrets: Ambassador Bristol Palin contemplates abstinence-only in Wasilla as teen birth rates heighten in religious states

U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests.

The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the Bible, for instance) may frown upon contraception, researchers say. If that same culture isn't successfully discouraging teen sex, the pregnancy and birth rates rise.

Mississippi topped the list for conservative religious beliefs and teen birth rates, according to the study results, which will be detailed in a forthcoming issue of the journal Reproductive Health. (See chart) Teen Birth Rates Highest In Most Religious States

Wasilla, Alaska
excerpts..
Pat O'Hara, a journalist who served on the Wasilla school board for twelve years, remembers how the religious right made her feel like a stranger in her own community.

The Valley, Alaska's fastest-growing region, is a spectacular area of lakes and birch and spruce forests, surrounded by granite-colored snowcapped mountains that poke through the clouds.

It wasn't until the 1990s that local churches like the Wasilla Assembly of God, which Palin grew up attending, became aggressively political.

A few years before Palin became mayor, a group of preachers confronted the school board with questions about social issues that had never before surfaced in local politics, according to O'Hara, who wrote first for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman and then for the Anchorage Daily News.

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Wasilla High lack of sex education
FEAR: Fearing abductions, Mat-Su hospital halts birth notices
Policy is based in part on guidelines provided by advocacy group
In a blow to newspaper tradition, and perhaps a signal of the death of small-town innocence, an Alaska hospital has stopped the longtime practice of announcing births out of fear it could lead to the abduction of an infant.
Sarah Palin's former staff has a book to shop
The Alaskan Report: "Former Palin staffer shopping book"
Diva moments, when Palin actually first heard from John McCain, and how Palin believes she's "the chosen one." We'll post what we can when we get it.

"...the entire valley isn't insane but it is like the twilight zone there."

Celtic Diva: I did some research on "TeenPact" over at TeenPact.com and discovered why the teens weren't completely forthcoming

80,000 people in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough
According to State Trooper records, in 1999 there were 38 officers assigned to the borough. Today there are 39. (2006)

When will Bristol's abstinence-only passion show?

Mudflats: A Mat-Su Teen Speaks Out | Planned Parenthood in the Mat-Su Valley
Gryphen: Blumenthal reveals the frightening secrets of Palin's religious beliefs

Uppers and downers:
Wasilla's Meth Problem Made Palin's Borough The Meth Capital Of Alaska
Update: OxyContin is on the rise across Southeast Alaska, where 80-milligram tablets of the opiate-based pain pill have a street value of between $120 and $160, according to the report.
Oxy replaces Meth | addicted to the power drug OxyContin | "...smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed.”

The hope of the Valley? | The Children's Place
A private practice family physician and the 2002 National National Award Winner: Cathy Baldwin-Johnson -Volunteer Medical Director at The Children's Place in Wasilla, Alaska

14 Alaskans to the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council

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...a cell phone for Bristol?

Meghan McCain to Levi: "Take Care of Your Baby"

Which baby or did she mean "Take care of your babies?"

Tripp, Levi's son with Bristol Palin, will be
9 months old later this month.
Said Meghan, "If I had a child, I would be at
home taking care of it."
Meghan McCain to Levi: "Take Care of Your Baby"

Levi's account suggests that her (Sarah) favorite activity is getting others to do her bidding. And she likes free stuff -- free room service, free clothes, free hotel rooms. Once the campaign ended, Levi says, her motto was,
"I want to just take this money and quit being governor."
And so she has. Sarah's Choice

MIA Sarah has been rumored to be wearing shades in Wasilla, it could be the crow's feet.
Whatever it is, Sarah has a new career, or so they say, and the same old bull.

No one is revealing why the frenetic crazy sudden quitty schreech. No one is telling the whole truth when it comes to the birth of the last two babies born to a Palin. The whole media black out of a Hong Kong secret forum is a bore...because what even is Sarah Palin, at this point? That crazy lady with the weird pregnancy secret is about it.
Meghan McCain ( MySpace )is on the bash Levi team, don't look for candor in her book. ( Cindy's aunt, Jeri Johnson, concerned that Cindy is giving the kids drugs. By 7 Meghan was telling people to fuck off ) She will be making a small fortune as a writer, I say she is one happy Daddy's girl and his reputation trumps the truth. Hold him accountable!

"Triggybear" series at Sarah's with Johnston family
"Triggybear" (newborn) series April or May 2008
"Triggybear pictures"

The incredible shrinking Trig?

click images to enlarge

sep 1, 2008
hey beautiful hows it going? love the pic of sara and the new member of the family. hows your mom and dad and levi doing? melissa parsons-wilfong

Mercede with Triggy Bear

Mercedes Johnston MySpace Page

Levi Johnston witnessed a miracle?

Levi Johnston wants us to believe he witnessed a remarkable transformation that defies all logic. I can't wait for him to elaborate and tell detailed answers to the many questions he has provoked.

Throughout history when a miracle is witnessed more details and questions follow. Levi lived with the Palin family. He would know about her diet and physical regimen. He perhaps is privy to secrets that would benefit mothers to be of all ages who want to maintain their shape and health.

The photos to the left show how Sarah went from flat to a round pregnant tummy in 2 short weeks.
That is a miracle if true.

Gryphen Update: The baby Levi is talking about is Tripp.
The Palinistas are almost unanimous in saying that Levi is a liar.

The historic photo (right) was taken
at the Republican Governors Association (RGA) conference in Grapevine, Texas in April 2008. Right before the "wild ride" and Trig's "official" birth date. Ms. Palin and her husband kept the pregnancy secret for seven months and did not even tell family members that prenatal tests indicated that the child had Down syndrome.

Witnesses on the flight to Alaska say there was no indication that Sarah Palin was a woman in her mid forties with child. She did not tell them she leaked any fluid or that she spoke with her physician, Dr. Cathy Baldwin Johnson.
Todd and Sarah Palin's own words
April 21, 2008 interview with Todd and Sarah Palin
Compare: 1989 Sarah Palin pregnant.

Lori in Los Angeles Says: September 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 PM
“I was at the hospital when Sarah had the baby, a little after 6 a.m. on April 18, 2008…………” Levi (from Vanity Fair)

First photos from April 18, 2008
Welcome to Alaska, Trig Paxson Van Palin
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at about 6:30 a.m. Friday morning.
Trig Paxson Van Palin was born at Mat-Su Regional Hospital...
(JUST BORN? | mysterious shrinking)
Mercede Johnston's MySpace before May 5, 2008 | What a 5-Week Preemie Really Looks Like

Progressive Alaska: Delivering the Real Issue
Levi supports Lee Tompkins, BSN belief that Sarah Palin's behavior was reckless with utter disregard for an unborn. What many call a "fundie abortion" or attempted murder.

Keith Olberman countdown msnbc

Mudflats: Book Wars. Palin v. Johnston

Speak up Wasilla

Things are looking up for Wasilla! The veil of fear could be lifted and a moratorium on all muzzles.

Phillip Munger at Progressive Alaska brought up a request for Sarah Palin to sign a release of her medical records. That would free Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson to explain the advice that could have killed the unborn baby, Trig. Palin's flight from Texas to Alaska on April 17, 2008, at best, it is abuse. Others would say attempted murder. Why would she be allowed to get by with this flagrant and deadly behavior?

I had a heck of a time getting to the following audio of Munger's interview with Mark Method. I'm challenged. But it was worth it! Here is the podcast link. Once on the page, find Mark Method.
Find the date of 6-27-09 and listen. That can be harder than it sounds. Don't give up. It is long, but you can also hear Celtic Diva!
Progressive Alaska's redux of Lee Tompkins letter is a must read. Tompkins believes Sarah Palin did birth Trig. There are those that don't believe for a second she is Trig's birther.

I'm not holding my breath for Dr. Baldwin-Johnson to pour her heart out and redeem her reputation. However, this is all encouraging, but like Levi Johnston, it may only be partially revealing.

What matters is that others can now speak up. They can tell their stories. Write their letters. Ask their questions. If they meet a wall of silence, that silence will be loud. When a child or children look abused or neglected no one should rest until they know what is going on. Politicians and religions can serve to protect perpetrators and it is a long process to unravel their devices and connect all the dots.

Dr. Baldwin-Johnson has been honored and awarded for her work with meth and abuse in the Mat-Su Valley. She is professional and does radio interviews on abuse. It is just too puzzling why she would sign off on a flight that would risk the life of an unborn. Those that do know her have started to talk and they tell of experiences where she was very cautious with pregnancies of less risk. That is only a part of her strange behaviors in the saga of Sarah. I have a feeling we will be hearing more about the good doctor, all in due time.

"Stick a fork in Bree, she's done"

What man, woman or child wouldn't give their eye teeth to not only have the ab thing going? (that was 33 weeks pregnant) Also, by age 44 to be a miracle tight rope walker and hiker? If that wasn't enough, she showed the world her very
"Amazingly Short Pregnancy" (hypocritesandheffalumps).
Who could do all that while governing Alaska? Sarah Palin!

They don't call her an icon for nothing, she bounced right back after that narrow escape from almost birthing a fish picker in Texas. Within days, baby Trig was ready for a coming out shower and to meet the world. All that after his near death or brain death experience in the skies over the lower48, Texas and Canada and finally arriving at her not special needs little hospital in the Mat Su Valley. Palingates: Sarah Palin's wild ride in her own words

Have you ever seen anything quiet like her? No wonder people still have a million questions.

It is broken down into two categories: (not including camp denial because they won't talk or answer questions)
1. Sarah Palin is the most uncaring, devil-may-care mom to be, who wanted to kill unborn Trig
2. Sarah Palin was never pregnant with Trig

WHICH IS IT?

Either way her constituents, the lower48 and the rest of the world deserve
and must have answers they can verify.

Progressive Alaska's redux of Lee Tompkins letter.

Gryphen at The Immoral Minority is getting to those burning questions, how does she do it? Where are those exercise class friends? She didn't have a baby without support and help from her long time family physician, Dr. Cathy Baldwin Johnson.
The Sarah Palin exercise plan: Or how to keep baby weight off until the seventh month and then drop it all again only weeks after giving birth.
Just for fun Palin and Letterman Pregnancies

There was a deluge of shuddering for the Palins during the time she was going for the VP spot. That in itself would be fascinating to delve into. The Johnston family had McCain operators move in on them and their computer was gutted. Many photos and MySpace were screen captured and a few survived on the internet.
TruthSeeker222: Sarah's Pregnancy photos

More this and that on the über uterine females:

Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson

CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE

April 2008 video interview with Elan Frank.

Palin's Deceptions: "Yes, it's hard to make out exactly what you're looking at here; the initial screen grab just doesn't have enough date to make a really clear shot. But the overall impression here is that we are looking at something that is rectangle shape."

Update: video

SARAH PALIN ( AN AMERICAN WOMEN FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE / PART 3
(this is the video of Sarah where she pats the rectangle tummy above)


@ 1:58 kristan cole
@ 4:50 pregnant sarah April 2008

VIDEO: It's here, you need no other example of Palin's pregnancy prowess.

‘hike of the week’

(this has changed, you might be able to get to the one where Sarah hikes in a Juneau
winter with her high heel boots if you try)

Was Ambassador Bristal Palin just stringing us along for Sarah's PR spin, or is she an actual spokes person for abstinence-only?

WTF!!!! VIDEO: Stick a fork in Bree, she's done

hat tip to ProChoiceGrandma

"Who is Trig's Mother" Mystery

Top Ten Clues in the "Who is Trig's Mother" Mystery
Diary Entry by Philosopher Jay

September 22, 2008

6. A Doctor’s Speciality: Teenagers in Trouble

Governor Palin’s announcement of her appointees to the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council says this about Dr. Baldwin Johnson[11]:

Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson of Wasilla is a private practice family physician and the 2002 National Family Physician of the Year from the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 1999, Baldwin-Johnson co-founded and is the volunteer medical director of The Children’s Place, and since 2005 has served as a consultant and trainer on child abuse issues. Baldwin-Johnson graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine where she participated in the WWAMI Medical School program.

Dr. Baldwin-Johnson is a family-practitioner. On Oct. 1, 2001, Baldwin-Johnson was named the 2002 Family Physician of the Year by the American Academy of family Physicians.

She was apparently both the regular doctor of Trig’s mother and the delivering doctor of Trig. Checking Matsu Hospital records, the only hospital that she is affiliated with, we find that Dr. Baldwin-Johnson delivered only three babies in the previous eighteen months: on Feb. 7 2008[12], Oct 3, 2007[13], March 17,2007. In all three cases, she was not the mother’s physician. There are two cases listed where Baldwin-Johnson was the mother’s doctor, but not the delivering physician: Dec. 18, 2006[14], and Jan 27, 2008[15]. There was not a single time during the prior eighteen months that Doctor Baldwin-Johnson delivered one of her own patient’s babies at Matsu Hospital; three times she delivered other doctors’ patient’s babies, and twice other doctors delivered her patient’s babies. Thus delivering her own patient’s baby was an unusual event, rather than a normal one for Dr. Baldwin-Johnson.

Dr. Baldwin-Johnson is the founder and volunteer medical director of the Children's Place, an agency for children who have been victims of physical or sexual abuse[16]. She is frequently quoted for her views on this subject. For example:

So the state is launching the Alaska Surveillance of Child Abuse and Neglect program, part of the state Division of Public Health.

"If you don't know accurately where you are starting from, you can't measure accurately whether what you do makes a difference," said Cathy Baldwin-Johnson , a doctor who chairs a task force that tries to improve the state's response to child abuse, particularly sexual abuse. She also is medical director of Alaska CARES, a clinic that provides exams and helps investigate sexual abuse[17].

About a year earlier, Baldwin-Johnson wrote an article that was published in the Anchorage Daily News defending privacy rights of rape victims:

Today's media play a strong role in creating community awareness about child abuse and sexual violence. Publishing the private details of these crimes, however, risks re-victimizing the victim…

Police officers, advocates and medical providers all know of victims who attempted suicide after public disclosure of abuse. Some have died. Public curiosity should never outweigh the fragile mental health of someone who has been sexually victimized. The frequency of these crimes can breed indifference or numbness, but for each victim the pain is new, personal and deep. Disclosing a child victim's identity can shatter their whole world…

It is up to the press to show restraint while fulfilling their journalistic responsibilities. This is not about censorship. It is about the respectful treatment of victims of violent crimes. No one has a right to victimize the victim further by publishing sensitive or identifying information…

Let's resolve to leave out the graphic descriptions of sex acts and references to collateral information that can potentially identify crime victims. We lose nothing in public safety; we gain much when we grant dignity and privacy to those enduring legal proceedings as they recover their shattered lives.

The fact that Bristol was sixteen, unwed and about to give birth to a child would certainly qualify her as a victim of sexual abuse. Legally, if Levi Johnson was 17 at the time, he cannot be legally prosecuted for statutory rape. If he was 18 at the time (Aug. 2007) then he could be. In any case, as the governor’s daughter, one can imagine the things that would be written about her in such a situation in newspapers throughout the state. Did Dr. Baldwin-Johnson possibly see herself as protecting the privacy rights of a sixteen year-old sexual abuse victim in this case?

In the case of Bristol being the mother, it would seem more probable that Dr. Baldwin-Johnson, a specialist in teen-ager pregnancy-abuse problems, would participate exclusively as both primary health care provider and baby deliverer. This way Bristol could be sure that her “secret” would remain safe. On the other hand, given the increased risks for a pregnant woman over 40 and especially one having a baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome, it seems highly likely that she would recommend that an obstetrician deliver the baby. Since Palin’s pregnancy was not a secret, Baldwin-Johnson took a great and unnecessary risk. If something had gone wrong, she would have taken the blame for not recommending an obstetrician do the delivery.

Admittedly, we do not know the relationship between Palin and Dr. Baldwin-Johnson. It is certain that Palin did appoint Baldwin-Johnson to a state commission and recommend her for an award. She may have delivered Palin’s baby Piper. it is not impossible that Dr. Baldwin-Johnson would decide to deliver Sarah Palin under these circumstances, it is just decidedly more likely that she would decide to deliver Bristol Palin under such circumstances.

Incidentally, I have been unable to find any evidence that Dr. Baldwin-Johnson actually delivered Piper, as claimed by Sarah Palin.