Ken Burch
May 15, 2022

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The ultimate teaching moment on right-wing anti-choicers was an event some of them staged during the Gulf War in 1991- an antichoice/prowar rally- in a conflict where "Support Our Troops" was a common slogan- where they held up signs saying "Support Our Unborn Troops".

In this, they were-unconsciously, I hope- echoing a song Bertolt Brecht wrote about the abortion ban Hitler imposed early in the Reich- "The Ballad of Paragraph 28, I think it was called"- in which the doctor who is refusing to give a woman a termination sings these lines "You're going to be a lovely little mother/you're going to bear a lump of cannon fodder".

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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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