Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

January 20,
"Instead of shaming women for ending a pregnancy, we should acknowledge their realism and self-knowledge. We should accept that it's good for everyone if women have only the children they want and can raise well. Society benefits when women can commit to education and work and dreams without having at the back of their mind a concern that maybe it's all provisional, because at any moment an accidental pregnancy could derail them for life. It's good for children to be wanted, and to come into this life when their parents are ready for them. It's good for people to be able to have sexual experiences and know that birth-control failure need not be the last word. It would not make us a better country if more girls and women were nudged and bullied and cajoled and humiliated and frightened into bearing children they are ill-equipped to raise, even if more men could somehow be lassoed into marrying or supporting them. It would simply mean more lost hope, more bad marriages and family misery, more poverty and struggle for women, their partners, and their kids. Don't we have way too much of that already?"

In her powerful book Pro, Kat

Is abortion really always tragic? How much has pro-life rhetoric influenced women's attitudes toward abortion? 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 in their lifetime. In her new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, feminist writer and poet 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. I talked to Pollitt about what voting Republican really means to women's health, the relation between Jewish values and reproductive freedom, and why the right to abortion is crucial to equality. 

Pro is being hailed—and criticized—as radical and controversial. Why is your message so polarizing, in ?

So far, the response has been very positive. I’m sure the criticism will come any day. I think the book speaks to a feeling among many pro-choice people that we need to be more assertive, less defensive. For a long time now abortion opponents have controlled the discourse: it’

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Katha Pollitt’s debut collection, Antarctic Traveller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in She was also awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry. This June, Random House will publish The Mind-Body Problem, Pollitt’s first collection in twenty-seven years. In addition to her poetry, Pollitt is an award-winning critic, columnist and essayist. Adam Gopnik spoke with Pollitt about her poetical and political selves, her writing process and the poets she most admires.

 

AG: You write frequently, not to say fluently, about politics and public life. But your admirers wait eagerly for your poems to appear, and mourn the spaces between their appearances. (At least one poem in this collection I have carried back and forth, in typescript – true typescript, to date it! – across several oceans and decades.) Any rhyme, or reason, to this difference between rhyme and reason? Is there a Political Pollitt and a Poetic Pollitt, or a Charismatic Katha and a Cloistered Katha? And do your personal essays, like in your collection Learning To Drive, both ruminative and pointed, occupy the middle gro

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