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It's good for men. 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. Her more controversial writings include “Not Just Bad Sex” (1993), a negative review of Katie Roiphe’s The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus, and “Put Out No Flags” (2001), a Nation essay on post-9/11 America in which she explained her refusal to fly an American flag out her living room window.
Pollitt was once married to Randy Cohen, author of The New York Times Magazine column “The Ethicist,” with whom she has a daughter.
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Katha Pollitt has your back on this, and more pro-choicers should embrace her unapologetic approach.” ―Ms.Am I gushing? She is best-known for her column “Subject to Debate” in The Nation magazine but has also published in numerous other periodicals, including The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Ms. magazine and the New York Times. Before she became a regular columnist for The Nation, Pollitt edited its Books & the Arts section, and won a National Book Critics Circle Award for a volume of her poetry, Antarctic Traveller, in 1983.
Much of Pollitt’s writing is in defense of contemporary feminism and other forms of “identity politics,” against perceived misimpressions by critics from all over the political spectrum; other frequent topics include abortion, the media, U.S.
foreign policy, the politics of poverty (especially welfare reform), and human rights movements the world over.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
By the noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, an "important, revelatory new book" (Elle) that is a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and force for social good. Read an excerpt.
Forty years after the landmark Roe v.
Waderuling, “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. 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....
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… Prois a passionate plea--and a book that is needed now more than ever.” ―Michele Filgate, Salon
“Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rightsis such an important book....
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.
You bet. 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. ‘No one is pro-abortion' is a common refrain among liberals defending the right to choose.
It's a holistic vision of a more just society that in her telling is at once utterly reasonable and heartbreakingly elusive. Promay succeed best at galvanizing complacent pro-choicers.... It's unlikely that Prois 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
“[Prois] 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.
It's good for women. Probegins 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
“Explosive.” ―Flavorwire, "25 Must-Read Books for the Fall"
Katha Pollitt (born 1949) is an American feminist writer.
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….