Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.

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• Katha Pollitt:

  We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on wit

• Katha Pollitt:

  Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics

• Katha Pollitt:

  Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

• Katha Pollitt:

  Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children

• Katha Pollitt:

  I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can

• Katha Pollitt:

  A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women shou

• Katha Pollitt:

  I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only lo

• Katha Pollitt:

  In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having ha

• Katha Pollitt:

  Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I kno

• Katha Pollitt:

  The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd -