Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric was anything but “straight talk,” especially when it came to abortion. As the Times article put it, she drew “a bit of a fuzzy line” regarding women who have been impregnated as the result of rape or incest:

Ms. Couric: If a 15-year-old is raped by her father, do you believe it should be illegal for her to get an abortion, and why?

Ms. Palin: I am pro-life. And I’m unapologetic in my position that I am pro-life. And I understand there are good people on both sides of the abortion debate. In fact, good people in my own family have differing views on abortion, and when it should be allowed. Do I respect people’s opinions on this? Now, I would counsel to choose life. I would also like to see a culture of life in this country. But I would also like to take it one step further. Not just saying I am pro-life and I want fewer and fewer abortions in this country, but I want them, those women who find themselves in circumstances that are absolutely less than ideal, for them to be supported, and adoptions made easier.

Ms. Couric: But ideally, you think it should be illegal for a girl who was raped or the victim of incest to get an abortion?

Ms. Palin: I’m saying that, personally, I would counsel the person to choose life, despite horrific, horrific circumstances that this person would find themselves in. And, um, if you’re asking, though, kind of foundationally here, should anyone end up in jail for having an … abortion, absolutely not. That’s nothing I would ever support.

None of this actually answers the question or gives the American woman any solid idea of what to expect should Palin become Vice President (or, potentially, President). It seems like she would have some qualms with sending a rape victim to jail for aborting, but would have no problem with trying to guilt a battered child into giving birth despite the “horrific, horrific circumstances” that got her pregnant.

And I don’t buy the “I want them to be supported” shit, either. As Governor, she slashed funding for Covenant House Alaska, an organization that included programs (such as Passage House) to help struggling teenage mothers:

According to Passage House’s web site, its purpose is to provide “young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives” and help teen moms “become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families.”

I don’t think it’s even remotely fair to women to block abortion access, but to insist on a pro-life nation while cutting funding to homes for young mothers who don’t have any other support is just disgusting. I can’t imagine anything further from “pro-woman.”