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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014)

by Katha Pollitt(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0312620543 (ISBN13: 9780312620547)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Picador

review 1: This is a vital book that everyone who cares about women's health, rights, and the state of the land should read. It's incredibly deftly written, full of wit, insight, warmth, great information, and a clear perspective, after so many years of listening to such garbage and such hysteria from the anti-choice/anti-abortion/anti-women crowd who are running the entire country, it seems - at least the majority of the Supreme Court and the Congress. It has become a sad commonplace that the only "legit" abortions are the ones by married women who have medical problems or fetal problems. That's the "OK" abortion to mention. But if you are having one "just" because you are unable to be a mother at that point, you are trashed and considered selfish and immoral/amoral. Pollitt makes ... morethe points that have gotten lost in this anti-choice propaganda: People are imperfect. Shit happens. Fathers leave, leaving pregnant women without support. Contraceptions don't work. Women who have abortions often have children and simply cannot afford to have more. This is a social good. Abortion should be safe, legal, affordable, and available. Thank you, Katha Pollitt, for writing this important book! P.S. I hardly ever read nonfiction.
review 2: "Perhaps we don't see abortion [as an act of self defense] because we don't think women have the right to a self. They are supposed to live for others. Qualities that are seen as normal and desirable in men - ambition, confidence, outspokenness - are perceived as selfish and aggressive in women...Perhaps that is why privacy has so little purchase on the abortion debate: Only a self can have privacy. Only a self can have equality." less

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