Ken Burch
1 min readJun 24, 2022

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Nobody on the pro-choice side stigmatizes pregnancies. And unless you oppose the conservstive agenda of continuously cutting social benefits while limiting or abolishing contraceptive access, and opposing any measures protecting women from job discrimination due to pregnancy, you aren't entitled to claim you want pregnancy to be a positive experience for women.

You're not pro-pregnant women if your attitude is "any pregnancy outside marriage is a disgrace- women who've had children should have to stay with abusive husbands/partners just to have a father in the house- when needed, social assistance should NEVER be available to two-parent families as a means of preserving family structure. because all that matters is forcing people to work outside the home for the SAKE of forcing them to work outside of them home, even if that means forcing fathers to roam the country just trying to find ANY sort of a job, even though doing that does nothing but destroy family structure".

The only way to be pro-pregnant woman and TRULY "pro-family" is to treat all family structures as valid and worthy of support so long as the children are treated well within them.

There is no answer to any of our problems in trying to force the majority of the country that DOESN'T want to be dragged back to the miserable dead zone of the 1950s to be forced back there whether they wish to be or not.

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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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