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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights Kindle Edition

by Katha Pollitt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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From noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt’s Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book 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.

Nearly fifty years after the 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, the rights once upheld by the Supreme Court are threatened to be repudiated and systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright.

Pro 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.

“A refreshing and comprehensive look at abortion rights…Pro is a passionate plea—and a book that is needed now more than ever.”—Salon

“Ultimately, Pollitt is arguing not just for reproductive rights but for reproductive justice, which places the right to mother, or not, within the global context of human rights and social and economic justice, inextricable from the fight for universal health insurance, immigration reform and a host of social challenges.”—The Chicago Tribune

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About the Author

Katha Pollitt, the author of Virginity or Death!, is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. She has won many prizes and awards for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism. She lives in New York City. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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“Katha Pollitt's brilliant new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, arrives like an urgent letter as rights are fast eroding….With Pollitt's characteristic wit and logic, Pro marshals science, history, medicine, religion, statistics and stories of real women's lives--with all the ‘tangled secret misfortunes' of families--to make a myth-busting argument that abortion is a social good. It's good for women. It's good for children. It's good for men. It's a normal fact of life and has been since ancient times. All of which might sound shocking, so rarely do we hear about abortion's benefits.” ―Kate Manning, Time

“Enraging...Pollitt's exploration of the hypocrisy of abortion opponents...is so witheringly encyclopedic it will be an eye opener for those who have never darkened the door of a women's studies classroom....Pro may succeed best at galvanizing complacent pro-choicers....Motherhood is hard enough if you go into it willingly. And Pollitt is correct to insist that the right to an abortion is merely society's down payment on all the rights we are yet due.” ―The New York Times Book Review

“Pollitt's arguments force those who oppose reproductive rights to show their true colors--and effectively parries the 'abortion hurts women' nonsense.” ―Jessica Valenti, The Guardian (UK)

“[This] shouldn't be a radical message, but in an era when some feminists feel the need to defend the birth control pill by highlighting its use for reasons other than contraception, the very idea that we should insist that abortion is a good thing because it's good for women feels incredibly bold…. ‘No one is pro-abortion' is a common refrain among liberals defending the right to choose. In the abstract, no, but if you need an abortion to live your life as you see fit, then pro-abortion is exactly what you are. Katha Pollitt has your back on this, and more pro-choicers should embrace her unapologetic approach.” ―Ms. Magazine

“[An] important, revelatory new book... Pollitt does an excellent job of unpacking [the statistics] and showing the contradictions in our views, as well as the limits to what surveys can tell us about the decisions Americans make for themselves.” ―Laurie Abraham, Elle

“A refreshing and comprehensive look at abortion rights… Pro is a passionate plea--and a book that is needed now more than ever.” ―Michele Filgate, Salon

“Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights is such an important book.... Pollitt's fearlessness in exposing and dismissing the misogynist kernel at the center of the issue makes Pro the most fearlessly feminist book I've read in ages, a genuine work of bravery and scholarship and discourse. Am I gushing? You bet. You will be, too.” ―The Stranger

“A lucid and paassionate book.” ―Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com

“Throughout Pro, Pollitt maintains a moral clarity...Ultimately, Pollitt is arguing not just for reproductive rights but for reproductive justice, which places the right to mother, or not, within the global context of human rights and social and economic justice, inextricable from the fight for universal health insurance, immigration reform and a host of social challenges. It's a holistic vision of a more just society that in her telling is at once utterly reasonable and heartbreakingly elusive. It's unlikely that Pro is going to change anyone's mind about abortion, but Pollitt's invigorating articulation of the web of connections that could, someday, create a society concerned with the well-being of all its citizens is reason enough for anyone already on the bus to pick it up.” ―The Chicago Tribune

“[Pro is] a challenging, smart book, and it will change what you think about and talk about when the topic of abortion comes up.” ―Flavorwire

“Pollitt is at her best when she is passionately arguing for women's right to control their own lives. Pro begins with a fierce critique of the way the pro-choice infrastructure has shied away from the word abortion itself and has allowed the anti-abortion crowd to shape the discourse -- and to leave pregnant people out of it entirely, focusing instead on those endlessly lovable fetuses and their "right to life." It ends with an equally powerful call to understand abortion not as some singular culture-war issue but as one part of a struggle for women to be able to live full, complete lives, and for the reproductive labor that is still done mostly by women to be understood as something that benefits all of society and is deserving of respect and (financial) support.” ―Refinery 29

“An impassioned, persuasive case for understanding [abortion] in its proper context…With wit and logic, Pollitt debunks the many myths surrounding abortion, and analyzes what abortion opponents really oppose: namely, women's growing sexual freedom and power….With arguments that are both lucid and sensible, Pollitt successfully reframes the abortion debate to show that, ‘in the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights.'” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In this powerful pro-choice treatise, Pollitt, the well-known feminist, poet, and award-winning columnist for the Nation, expertly lays out why she supports a woman's right to decide whether to end a pregnancy.” ―Booklist (starred review)

“A dramatic, persuasive argument for abortion…Bolstered by dramatic statistics (‘excluding miscarriages, 21 percent of pregnancies end in abortion'), personal interviews, and historical references reaching as far back as ancient Greece and Egypt, Pollitt impressively makes her case while admitting that abortion clinics have become increasingly inaccessible and certain ‘pronatalist pundits' are holding women's intimately private pregnancy decisions up for public scrutiny…Pollitt's cogent opinion presents potent testimony on a woman's right to choose.” ―Kirkus Reviews

“Pro-choice advocates will find Pollitt's summation helpful in recruitment.” ―Library Journal

“Explosive.” ―Flavorwire "25 Must-Read Books for the Fall"

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Hande Z

Loud and Clear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2017

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Katha Pollitt’s book is a war cry for those in favour of a woman’s right to choose abortion. Those who oppose abortion will likely disagree with all she says in this book. In 220 pages of text she discusses ‘abortion in its full human setting: sex and sexuality, love, violence, privilege, class, race, school and work, men, the scarcity of excellent, respectful reproductive healthcare, and of realistic accurate information about sex and reproduction…why there are so many planned and unplanned pregnancies…birth control…poverty and violence and family troubles, about sexual shyness and shame and ignorance and the lack of power so many women experience in bed and in their relationships with men’. It is indeed a vast sweep, but Pollitt makes it clear why all these matters are connected. A woman’s woes with an unwanted pregnancy is always a complex situation.

Hence, Pollitt dispels claims by anti-abortionists (she avoids the term ‘pro-life’ because it implies that those in favour of choice is somehow against life – when no life is involved), including the assertions that showing videos or the sonogram of the uterus before a woman gets an abortion tends almost invariably to make her change her mind. Pollitt saw her sonogram and didn’t change hers.

She dispels the popular myths about abortion. The first being that the Bible forbids it. She reminds the reader that it should not matter what the Bible says, ‘America is not a theocracy’. But importantly, not one word about abortion is found in either the Old or New Testaments, even though the Bible is full of detailed do’s and don’ts – what to wear and what to eat, for example. More interestingly, if a woman helps her husband in a fight by grabbing the other man’s testicles, her hand shall be cut off. The other myths include claims that abortion is dangerous; that women are forced into abortions; abortion is racist – ‘Black Children are an endangered Species’; and that abortion opponents would never punish women.

Pollitt tries to examine if there is a compromise between the pro and anti-abortion groups – ‘Permit but discourage’? The cases after Roe v Wade, she says, were the compromise – ‘and we compromised it away’. She has much to say about the Supreme Court and how it has been dealing with the subject of abortion. She questions what abortion opponents really oppose.

Because of the strong religious undertones in the anti-abortion group, it is unlikely that Pollitt will succeed in persuading its members to her view. But perhaps if the law compels the man who insists on no abortion to raise and take full responsibility for the child when born the anti-abortion voice might be more muted?

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Mike Morgenstein

A Venerable Eye-opener !

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2015

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Author Katha Pollitt, a pro-life advocate, vouches the reclaiming of abortion rights. These "rights" are more than just legal rights, but also the social liberty of making one's own decision, and the right for the general public to be properly educated on such issues. This would do much to liberate women from pervading current social stigma. It's not entirely about women, but it's also about those who, on their volition and peril, and despite bitter opposition, go through with the women's requests. These are the abortion doctors.
I will summarize the text, and of course add my own sentiment to it.

The introduction captures a little history and the framework of abortion. Legalizing abortion didn't just save women from injury and fear of arrest, but also gave them a sense of empowerment. The fact that now women - the carriers of babies - can make their own decision to conceive. The author asks you to envisage the felicity of no pharmacist refusing to fill your prescription of birth control or Plan B, no religious fanatic yelling derogatory things (commonly "baby killer") through clinic parking-lots, no woman apologizing for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant, no woman feeling restricted from saying "this just wasn't the right time for me", and ultimately the grandiose support of what she calls "the giants": the large amount of people who are on the conflict-void edge of the conflict-ridden issue as well as those who are not involved. These will determine the fate of legal abortion. The author also states that abortion should have rather been legalized in the grounds of equality rather than privacy.
The author starts by explaining what she means by "reclaiming abortion". Abortion is seen under the insidious light of wickedness, and it reflects as an act of the demoralized, that's often equated with murder and incivility. According to her, we need to see abortion as an "urgent practical decision" that is just as, or if not more moral than the decision to have the child. Abortion is part of being a mother and caring for children because knowing when to bring a child into the world falls under that responsibility. When considering the topic abortion, she wants us to consider the full human scope: sex, work, men, respectful and reproductive healthcare, and realistic and accurate information about sex and reproduction. Etc. For example, a Brown university study found that 16 percent of pregnant fell victim to reproductive coercion and separately, 9% experienced "birth control sabotage". She raises a good point; she says that sometimes when we talk about abortion as being a bad thing, and that there's too much of it, we actually mean that there's too much unwanted pregnancy, too much inadequately beguiling sex education, not enough access to birth control, and even too much poverty.
In her chapter 'What Do Americans Think About Abortion?' she details the landscape of the issue. She discusses how abortion is perceived on a political level, and how such caricatures influence many people socially. Politically, there is much pressure to enforce more stringent mandates. As a result, many conservative states and systems place more onerous requirements and restrictions towards abortion clinics and prospects. She interpolates many polls from many different sources and times, and rebukes at the brash inconsistencies between what people actually think, what people THINK they think, and what they vote for or against. The conclusion easily drawn is that Americans don't have a solid understanding of abortion.
She importantly covers the expedient abortion topic - what is a person? Many abortion opponents injudiciously extend their definition of personhood and thus rally against contraceptives calling them "abortifacients". Religious zeal compels many to protect the fertilized egg, the blastocyst, etc. If this "loss of life" is so important to pro-lifers, then the same level of importance should be applied to miscarriages. Following the same logic, each and every miscarriage should be investigated as a possible crime. Also, vast sums of money should be spent to prevent them, yet its not.
The author reverts back to the social issues of abortion and makes a compelling case for the societal degradation of women. While reading her claims of women being set-aside and unconsidered in the discussion of abortions, I was leery of overly-avid feminism. But honestly, I couldn't help but feel her. Her expostulation was inundated with good examples, a surfeit of facts and interpolated statistics, and well-structured arguments. While it is important to scientifically assess the termination of an embryo, and morally consider the loss of "life" per se, the enervating social constraints and opportunity costs are nevertheless to me a rather requisite consideration. Its abominable that such staunch opponents, in a perceived act of valor (though usually just blind religious conviction), go out of their way to save the unborn while simultaneously engaging in higher dereliction: the lack of action and even support for laws that do help single mothers, especially those impoverished; and the lack of pressure asserted to those who are equally responsible - the father. This contrasts western Europe were pronatalism (i.e. the encouragement of reproductive child-bearing) is part of the reasoning behind strong government support for families. Amusingly, conservatives are doing much to impute responsibility on the woman while liberating (perhaps unintentionally?) men. Considering the fact that many deny evolution and harbor [false] convictions that everything was divinely created less than 10,000 years ago, it's not to hard to fathom that entrenched in their ideologies lay archaic views of females and their roles in society. Women are often the ones reproached, coerced, and subjugated to culture-motivated "expectations". Them getting pregnant opponents say, is a result of their promiscuity and bad behavior. With repugnance, they assert that women should be responsible for the ramifications of their actions. As if fornication or promiscuity is a bad thing. Ramifications for such thinking is worse; birth control pills can't be attained without prescription and emergency contraception is often not available. Pronatalists are so concerned with the hypothetical future of the unborn, aka, the future worker, the future benefit, the future genius that never got the chance to be conceived. But what about the millions of poor people, often the ones we label as "ghetto", "low class", and "incompetent", that they do nothing for. Though benighted many are gifted, good intention-ed, and talented, yet they are plagued by they're environment: a maelstrom of bad influence, failure-ridden expectations, poor social conditions, plus a lack of resources that as a result obscure the proper path to success.
Towards the end, there's an interesting section called the "Six Myths About Abortion". I will not get into any detail but they are:
1. The Bible forbids it
2. Women are coerced into having abortions
3. Abortion is dangerous
4. There are too many abortions
5. Abortion is racist
6. Abortion opponents would never punish women
The chapter "What Do Abortion Opponents Really Oppose?" stresses the lack of concern for women again but this time more eclectically. The name is a hyperbole, a little too much for me. There's still a lot of fruitful information in it. For example, the top states for women's status, where religion plays a relatively small role in political life, have few abortion restrictions. The opposite is true for more conservative states. The correlation between elevated women status and congenial abortion laws may indicate that anti-abortion states are more interested in attacking women's rights than protecting fetal life according to the political scientist Jean Reith Schroedel. Schroedel shows that anti-choice states don't do much to ensure the health and well-being of fetuses and babies when it comes to prenatal care, drug treatment, other exogenous assistance. The same states are at the bottom when it comes to "education, child care, access to food stamps, Medicaid, and welfare" according to her. I've seen this examined before by other intellectuals but not under the light of abortion.

Overall, Pro was a great read. It was very insightful, and easy to understand. The author's tone conveys a sense of urgency and concern. For example, Pollitt's women "empowerment" argument in the introduction is definitely an appeal to emotion, but justified many times later in the text. At times though it seems that she may divert, at least in tone, and over-accentuate semi-subjective female injustice. Nevertheless, this is only in tone because the reoccurring diversions into the female perspective are not superfluous. This is reinforced by what I believe to be the thesis, on page 25:
"...although abortion has been legal for four full decades, for many women in America it might as well not be. It is inaccessible-too far away, too expensive to pay for out of pocket, and too encumbered by restrictions and regulations and humiliations, many of which might not be seen to be one of those "undue burdens" the Supreme Court has ruled are impermissible curbs on a woman's ability to terminate a pregnancy, but which, taken together, do place abortion out of reach."
Insofar as science goes, one of her arguments is that the DNA during the post-blastocyst stages are merely a blueprint for what's to be a person, but not a person them-self. She juxtaposes this to instructions for a house - just an outline - and the conditions from your mother's hormonal mix and the combination of love, diet, and simulation are what makes a person. The author vehemently argues that abortion is a bigger issue than the moral considerations for the zygote/embryo/fetus, because while abortion-opponents consider that, they are at the same time relegating women and their rights to the periphery. She says that the concept of personhood when applied to early human development in the womb makes no sense and is "incoherent, covertly religious, and believed by barely anyone". Even though this is true, I still feel that when it comes down to it, scientific analysis is needed to justify the "worth" of the unborn fetus, at all stages and void of any social/environmental considerations outside the mother herself. On a related note, one big thing missing from the book in my opinion is the analysis of pain. I'm not sure what scientific advancements have been made (or even the field involved - is it biology, neurology, or neurophysiology?) but I am sure to some degree we can measure the amount of pain or suffering we subject the unborn baby to when we abort it. Do those flies that we mindlessly slaughter with our feet, and inflict mass exterminations to with the minimal kinetic effort of our finger feel the same pain and suffering, with their mature physiology and well-developed nervous system, as an aborted fetus? My guess is that the pain would be greater. We may be, as Katha Pollitt says, neglecting of female worth in our society but by the same token we are also (and this is more subtle) overly egotistical.

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Marita Gorman

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2017

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perfect

Steph Howard

"The" best book on the subject todayt

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016

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Without exception the best book on the subject on today's book shelves and the one that makes sense from a woman's point of view. "PRO: Reclaiming Abortion Rights" is thought provoking. Here is my brief opinion and review or this work.

Over 4 million women are forced, against their will, into an unwanted pregnancy each year. Because of reporting problems this number may actually be too low. Even at 4 million a year that number is unbelievable especially since that number could just as easily be zero. We continually hear from the Anti-women crowd that abortion is immoral and should be made illegal. Forced pregnancy against a women will is a totally preventable crime and is totally preventable. The need to terminate a pregnancy could be virtually non-existent if men simply didn’t force inject women with their bodily fluids against their will. Want to stop abortion? Stop forcing women into unwanted, and unasked-for pregnancies. Problem solved.

Some find that solution too simple. After all, that would mean taking responsibility for their own bodily fluids and their own actions, That, they say is a complex subject which needs to be considered very carefully seeking out all the potential pitfalls and downfalls of that plan in order to protest men’s rights. The NCCB (National Conference of Catholic Bishops - celibate men. and “eunuchs for the sake of heaven”) their American Radical Religious Right Wing Coalition (RRRWC) of some (certainly not all) American religious and political allies onboard with the obsessive and compulsive plan of the Roman Universalist Church (RUC) hierarchy, want to lay out another plan. Instead of allowing women to do what would be and is completely moral, ethical, natural and legal for any man when he is poisoned, they want to victimize women a second time in behalf of the perpetrator by forcing her to become in incubator, (a thing equivalent to a, gender slave, baby maker or domestic animal) under the auspices of a the church/state legal mandate.

This though provoking book helps demystify a subject that the anti-women's right crusaders of the NCCB (and it’s European dictatorship) and their American Radical Religious Right Wing Coalition (RRRWC) of American religious leaders and political allies who obsessively and compulsively, want to lay out a reality where women are used as incubators in the name of the church and state which takes away women’s rights to their bodies and lives. Just think these men consist of 1% of the population and their "Anti-Woman's Rights Cult of America.” Represents another 14% of the population.

It gives one an idea of the dogma they use to denigrate, dehumanize, defame and slander women, in their obvious church/state attempt to control every woman's human, moral, natural and civil rights, and justify their methodology of keeping women from acting, in self defense, against a criminal battery and other highly immoral acts perpetrated against them; and then, even claiming God is behind it all. Me thinks that they are creating pretend gods, to punish their pretend women, in their fantasy alternative universe. If you read this book carefully, and just think a little, you will understand that they have a nascent need to control women and have formed an anti-women right crusade to make right by agreement what cannot be made right through fact. This book also helps clarify the NCCB’s and RRRWc’s intentional use of the many oppressive, tyrannical, and often unconstitutional and illegal acts and tactics and understand why it is known, in some circles as the unholy "Anti-Woman's Rights Cult of America.”

Another well written and inspiring book written by Katha Pollitt Five stars and two thumbs up.

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Read if you're pro-choice & if you're pro-life

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2021

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I must say it took me 2 years to read this book in its entirety. I normally read a book every couple of weeks, but since I completely disagree with the author's viewpoint, and I am pretty passionate about it, it took me quite a lot of time to get through it! But I'm glad I did.

I also want to say, looking at Pollitt's bio, I am very different from the author in so many ways, our beliefs differ drastically, most importantly I am unapologetically pro-life. But, I am not here to argue her point of view--I think there are so many well-written pro-life books detailing my worldview that to write about it here would be completely pointless. I am here to comment on this particular book, not the author's opinion.

If you are pro-choice, if you are pro-life, or if you're somewhere in-between, I'd say go ahead and read this book. But, read it alongside a pro-life book. Why? Because there is nothing better than learning about arguments from both sides of the spectrum. And sorry to say, but this topic is so important that you can't really afford not having an opinion on it. Also, since it's such a polarizing topic, no matter what book you read, there will be some animosity toward the other side, some feeling of superiority (from the author or even within yourself). This is unfortunate, but this is just how hopelessly far we have come as a society.

As for the book:
I like the idea that Pollitt presents at the beginning that she is not necessarily trying to convince pro-lifers like me to be on her side, but rather she is appealing to those who are in the middle. This is actually the the case with all the controversial topics that we as a society engage in conversing about.
I enjoyed how "Pro" goes into various different topics, perspectives, and gives rebuttals to common arguments given by the pro-lifers. Her book made me realize how badly some women have been treated by pro-lifers in the past, and how the religious community has failed to support some pregnant women. I have seen a different reality, have heard of different experiences, but I know hers and her friends' are as real as mine, and I am sadden to hear that these things happen.
Overall, when I bought this book, I wanted to learn more about what & how pro-choicers think (though I was already well-versed in that), and there were a few times when the questions Pollitt raised made me pause and think. I also think the author did a good job with giving examples to support her arguments. Lastly, the book was easy to read--you can tell she is a writer.

Things to look out for:
In the book, there are various times when the author poses questions that are intentionally asked a certain way to get an emotional response, or have the reader agree with her opinion. This is a technique used by both sides, and I personally don't like it--I think it's cheap. That method tricks people into thinking what the author or interlocutor wants them to think and doesn't leave much room for disagreement.
Though there were many great examples supporting Pollitt's point of view, I think the book had too many generalizations. Not all Evangelicals or Catholics force abused women to stay in their marriages. Pro-lifers do care about women. And saying the entire society doesn't value women is wrong too (this is the mindset of "patriarchy is the true enemy; every man is bad". I don't like it because it is a pretty self-obsessed and conspiratorial worldview).

Overall, I enjoyed being challenged and stretched out of my comfort zone. I like reading about controversial topics. I think it's important to have an opinion while being open-minded and willing to have a conversation with people. So, if you get this book, as I said at the beginning, get its ideological counterpart, and engage with your friends in kind conversations about this important topic.

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