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Katha Pollitt

We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

Since ‘Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights’ came out, I’ve done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can’t happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, ‘I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.’

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but – and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

It’s a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who’s against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They’ve tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn’t support any of that.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don’t have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn’t have the baby yet. But if we’re going to say it’s a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

– Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt

I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it’s just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don’t quite believe that.

– Katha Pollitt

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