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Pro by Katha Pollitt5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I don’t expect to convince many abortion opponents to see my point of view. I want to argue, to the contrary, that it is an essential option for women-not just ones in dramatic, terrible, body-and-soul-destroying situations, but all women-and thus benefits society as a whole. The anti-abortion movement has been far too successful at painting abortion as bad for women. I want us to start thinking of abortion as a positive social good and saying this out loud. There are definitely short-term advantages to stressing the anguish some women feel when facing the need to end a pregnancy, but in the long run, presenting that as a general truth will hurt the pro-choice cause: It comes close to demanding that women accept grief, shame and stigma as the price of ending a pregnancy. I want to help reframe the way we think about abortion. “Many commentators and pundits…want abortion to be legal, at least in the early weeks, but they want to make clear it’s a bad thing and there’s way too much of it.” ![]()
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