7 rows · · In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a /5(6). · After owning the book for over two years, this week I finally stopped procrastinating reading Katha Pollitt’s persuasive powerhouse of a book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. Ironically, my timing had nothing to do with the recent “heartbeat bill” in Texas, but the urgency that the bill caused definitely lit a fire under me to enthusiastically jump into the book. “Pro, Reclaiming Abortion Rights”, a just-published book by Katha Pollitt, could just as easily have been called “Because Women’s Lives Matter,” adopting the /5().
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After owning the book for over two years, this week I finally stopped procrastinating reading Katha Pollitt’s persuasive powerhouse of a book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. Ironically, my timing had nothing to do with the recent “heartbeat bill” in Texas, but the urgency that the bill caused definitely lit a fire under me to enthusiastically jump into the book. Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and Nation columnist. Her most recent book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Picador, ). This article is part of Dissent’s special issue of “Arguments on the Left.”. To read more arguments in the issue, click here. Facebook Twitter Email. “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.
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