Pro : reclaiming abortion rights / Katha Pollitt.
2014
HQ767.5.U5 P65 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Pro : reclaiming abortion rights / Katha Pollitt.
Author
Pollitt, Katha.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780312620547 hardcover
0312620543 hardcover
0312620543 hardcover
Published
New York : Picador, [2014]
Language
English
Description
258 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
HQ767.5.U5 P65 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.460973
Summary
Argues that abortion is a common part of a woman's reproductive life and should not be vilified, but instead accepted as a moral right that can be a force for social good.
"Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers."--Book jacket.
"Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-258).
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Table of Contents
Reclaiming abortion
What do Americans think about abortion?
What is a person?
Are women people?
Six myths about abortion
What do they really oppose?
Can there be a compromise on abortion?
Reframing motherhood.
What do Americans think about abortion?
What is a person?
Are women people?
Six myths about abortion
What do they really oppose?
Can there be a compromise on abortion?
Reframing motherhood.