From Sonia M., age 17

As a woman in the United States of America, I do not support Sarah Palin in her bid for the Vice-Presidential position. I find it insulting that the Republican Party thinks so little of the women of America that it has tried to replace one powerful woman (Mrs. Clinton) with another. Do they think we will not notice the difference? Sarah Palin seems set on reversing the hard work of my grandmothers, both of whom were active in the Women's Suffrage movement. She stands against a woman's right to choose, therefore implying that we should not even have control over our own bodies. She stands against sex education and birth control, both of which are immensely important, not only for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, but also for health reasons. She has no foreign policy experience in a time when it is acutely needed, and she does not support alternative energy development, despite the fact that we may be out of oil very soon. Perhaps most importantly, she does not support the separation of church and state, one of the things that America was built upon. If we cannot choose what to believe in, how can we really be free?
–Sonia M., 17, Littleton, MA