Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, presents Katha Pollitt as she discusses her book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.
Forty years after Roe v. Wade, even its supporters often feel a need to qualify their position on abortion. In her impassioned and eminently reasonable defense of a woman’s right to choose, Pollitt, The Nation’s award-winning “Subject to Debate” columnist, notes that abortion has played a part in nearly every society for 4,000 years, but has been protested only in the last 140 years. As she considers what the pro-life movement might really be objecting to, Pollitt shows how this moral right is also a force for social good.
