Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

“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by dramatic statistics (‘excluding miscarriages, 21 percent of pregnancies end in abortion’), personal interviews, and historical references reaching as far back as ancient Greece and Egypt, Pollitt impressively makes her case while admitting that abortion clinics have become increasingly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

Additional Praise for Katha Pollitt:

“Over the years, I’ve been outsourcing my thinking on a host of subjects to Katha Pollitt.”—Barbara Ehrenreich

“Katha Pollitt has long and rightly been hailed for her brilliance, wit, and great insight into politics, social issues, and women’s rights. As with all of her work, I am enormously grateful for Virginity or Death!, and also deeply jealous.”—Anne Lamott

“Katha Pollitt writes the liveliest, smartest general essays on women’s issues today. (They’re awfully good on America, too.) Relief —that someone is finally saying it—is one of the many pleasures that Pollitt invariably gives me. Brave. funny, commonsensical, morally right on, she’s almost always right.”—Susan Sontag