Ken Burch
1 min readMar 15, 2020

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If people are going to fight for THAT, they have some obligations:

  1. They have an obligation to accept that we need to have a social welfare state and that it will need to grow, so that no child is ever raised in poverty;
  2. They need to support getting rid of the pointless, classist, possibly racist and quite simply evil ban on public assistance for TWO parent families. If they are going to make a fetish of children being raised by “a mother AND a father”, they need to get rid of the rules that force millions of people to choose between giving their kids two live-in parents OR “three hots and a cot”.
  3. They have an obligation to back, not only maternity/paternity leave, but the “caregiver leave” proposal that was offered by a Medium writer;
  4. They have an obligation to support measures protecting any woman who conceives from any form of workplace or financial discrimination;
  5. They have an obligation to give up the idea that some groups are LESS entitled to reproduce than others;
  6. They have an obligation to accept that no woman who conceives should EVER, under any circumstances, be shamed or stigmatized over the circumstances of the pregnancy;
  7. They need to accept that it can be nothing but barbaric to force a victim or parental rape(that’s what we should start calling “incest”, really) or adult rape to carry the pregnancy caused by the rape to term-that to insist on that is to punish the victim for being raped and to doom that victim to never recovering from the trauma;

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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