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Wade made abortion legal, but as Katha Pollitt points out in her new book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Picador: 272 pp., 25), it failed to.

That means abortion is always potentially lifesaving for a pregnant woman. Forty years ago, the landmark decision Roe v. The year after abortion was legalized in New York State, the maternal-mortality rate there dropped by 45 percent-one reason why legalization can be seen as “a public-health triumph. Katha Pollitt is a known feminist and has been covering gender equality and female reproductive rights for decades. Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights 5 likes Like The death rate for that is 8.8 women per 100,000.12 As I’ve mentioned before, continuing a pregnancy is 12 to 14 times as potentially fatal as ending it. Over the book's 200-odd pages, Pollitt longtime columnist for The Nation and all-around feminist public thinker charts with passion and intellectual rigor just how much the lives of American.

The odd life and psyche of the man who invented her Officials hope to achieve their goal of effectively banning the procedure. She speaks directly to the people who believe that abortion should be legal in some circumstances, but maybe not all circumstances and discusses both the history and repercussions of this stance. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book From noted feminist and longtime. Katha Pollitt is the author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights and Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories.Ībortion Foes Use the Pandemic as an Excuse Katha Pollitt takes a calm look at the state of abortion rights in America and points out where we've gone astray. Katha Pollitt, the author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights and Virginity or Death, is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. Odzyskajmy prawo do aborcji book by Katha Pollitt.