num_pages: 258
description: A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATIONForty 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.
language: English
title: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
publisher: Picador