Capitalism is Threatening Women’s Right to Choose and Destroying the American Family

Meet Alex. She’s not very well drawn, but don’t blame her for that. That one’s on me.

Alex is thinking about having children.

Maybe she’s discussed the idea with her partner. Or maybe she learned she was pregnant two weeks ago and is deciding whether or not to have an abortion (hopefully she lives in a state which recognizes her bodily autonomy). Perhaps she’s single and is going to go the insemination route*.

Whoever Alex is**, she’s thinking about what it would look like to have — and raise — a child in America. She reads a story in the news talking about the high cost of college and starts thinking “can I afford a child?”

So she starts making a list — a timeline — of all of the costs she might face. She wants to make sure her kid has the best shot at a good life, and that starts with making sure she is healthy during her pregnancy. So she sets up an appointment with her doctor. Does she…