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Brak zainteresowania zobowiązaniem mężczyzn do udziału w opiece nad nienarodzonymi dziećmi – i urodzonymi też! – to kolejna wskazówka, że przeciwnikom aborcji zależy przede wszystkim nie na dobru zarodków i płodów, ale na nadzorowaniu i karaniu zachowania kobiet – i tylko kobiet.

Możliwość kontrolowania, kiedy mają urodzić się dzieci i ile ich będzie, jest fundamentem współczesnego ideału małżeństwa z jego miłością, równością, zaufaniem, wspólnym spędzaniem czasu i wzajemną rozkoszą seksualną. Pozwala na partnerskie małżeństwa, w których role nie są sztywno przydzielone – lepsze też dla dzieci, bo rodzice mogą poświęcić im więcej uwagi i więcej w nie zainwestować.

"W rzeczywistości aborcja jest nieodłączną częścią bycia matką
i dbania o dobro dzieci, ponieważ nieodłączną częścią dbania o dobro
dzieci jest wiedza, kiedy ich lepiej nie rodzić."

Been reading this a couple days, forgot to update on goodreads!

By menopause, 3 in 10 women will have had an abortion already.
21% of pregnancies end in abortion.
6 in 10 women that have an abortion already have at least 1 child.

Abortion has been around for quite some time and in the past it was viewed exactly how it is viewed today. Abortions were happening in 1930, just some people didn't know about them, but the science shows that the birth rate went lowerer.

I learned about all the ways that states are getting around having abortion legal. Between only allowing women to have an abortion before you can find a heartbeat to only allowing women to have abortions if they were raped. While it is still legal there are so many restrictions that make getting abortions hard.

used pathos for the emotions of women when they want an abortion and how the society and people affect their decision.

The author uses public knowledge along with scientific knowledge to go through pros and cons of abortion and the rights along with it.

Currently the book is starting off with how abortions used to be seen by people, then they skip forward to abortions now and how they are seen in a bad way. Abortion has always been a bad thing.

Ciężko ...

Jak na razie powiem tak - książka BARDZO WAŻNA i dobra, szczególnie w obecnych czasach

Compelling & convincing. Idk if I’ll get through the rest of it before the fall semester (& lots more reading) starts, but I wish loads more Americans would read this book!

“... the famously patriarchal Catholic Church”

The way that line affirmed me. I feel seen.

Very nice note on language at the beginning.

... Instead of acknowledging that a woman ending a pregnancy usually has a good sense of what she can offer a child - which is why she didn't get pregnant intentionally in the first place - we do our best to make her feel like a bad person."

"So having an abortion becomes an evasion of the responsibility to be prudent and continent. Yet it is precisely because having a baby determines so much about a woman's life, and because women take maternal responsibilities so seriously, that they have abortions. ...

"Part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world."

Sure, I wanted to read some nice blood pressure reducing fiction but nooOoOo Alabama had to go and be Alabama.

(ik, 'why do you care, you're Engligh', my good bitch, firstly my country is in an alt-right spiral and what happens in the US happens here at a later date, and secondly an increasingly foreign concept called empathy)

I like the book overall, and it's helping me clarify and expand my pro-choice position. But I grow tired of the poor structure and snark.

"It’s religion—facts don’t matter, especially when the facts
involve women’s liberty.
..
You would almost think
the people who have always opposed women’s independence and full
participation in society were still at it. They can’t push women all the way back,
but they can use women’s bodies to keep them under surveillance and control."

"This is not about 'life'. It's about treating women as potting soil. It's about control."

Yaassssssss!

It shouldn't matter what the Bible says about abortion - or indeed anything else. The United States is not a theocracy.

So far the author has brought up so many points that I've said and told people who oppose abortion. She's getting to the nitty gritty as they say.

I must have put that that I read this before. It was in my read folder. It was possibly a sample that I read and not the full book. I'm liking that the author takes on the personal stories of women-especially women in her family and their experiences with abortion.

Amazing!

Good points are being made, but I can also see them being made less repetitively / in a somewhat shorter fashion than they are in this book.

"Abortion opponents are always talking about the millions of workers and consumers who were killed in the womb. Some might say there are quite enough of us already, given the global ecological crisis: When God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, the world's population consisted of two people." LOL

I would love to see what Pollitt writes over the next four years as we continue on this rapid decent into fascism akin to Mussolini years.

i'm living for ms. pollitt's gig right now -- at the end of the day, people still think that women should be barefoot and constantly pregnant, preparing meals for their husbands

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