[Hac-announce] June Book Discussion: Katha Pollitt's "Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights"

[Kevin Gough or Paula Jones]

Our book for June is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by humanist writer Katha Pollitt. The discussion will take place Saturday, June 20, 2015 in the library of the Unitarian Society of New Haven at 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden.
 
Per the jacket: 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.
 
Pollitt, a FFRF Freethought Heroine, not only reiterates many of the (seemingly) forgotten facts about abortion, she also attacks the duplicitous memes (e.g. "no one is pro-abortion") that abortion rights advocates have allowed abortion opponents to use to reframe the issue since Roe vs. Wade.
 
"Katha Pollitt's brilliant new book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, arrives like an urgent letter as rights are fast eroding….to make a myth-busting argument that abortion is a social good. It's good for women. It's good for children. It's good for men. It's a normal fact of life and has been since ancient times. All of which might sound shocking, so rarely do we hear about abortion's benefits." Kate Manning, Time

The book is readily available in numerous libraries around the state.
 
Refreshments will be served.



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