/u/ZarahCobalt on What is your response to the argument that conservatives are pro-birth not pro-life.

It didn't work because it was attacked relentlessly for decades and as the supports like church and community crumbled, it fell apart too. We can't fully go back, but not because it's going backwards into something bad, it's because the rest of our culture is so broken that healthy families are the exception, not the rule.

Inability to revert to a known better system is no excuse to keep making the situation worse and keep up the attacks. The very least we can do is notice we're in a hole and stop digging. Maybe actively encouraging premarital sex is a bad idea. Maybe telling people to postpone marriage and childrearing until their mid to late 30s is a bad idea. Maybe trashing motherhood and acting like women are doing something bad if we don't sell ourselves to companies instead of being with family is a bad idea. Even if we can't fill the hole, we can at least put the shovel down.

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