Abortion With Apology By Pollitt Summary

Why choose abortion? Abortion is seen as a necessity right because a women shouldn’t need a reason to not want to be pregnant. In the article “Abortion With Apology”, Katha Pollitt persuasively argues that it is simply the woman’s body and nothing should stand in the way of what she wants for herself. Pollitt asks, “What’s praiseworthy about bearing more children than you can--or want to--take care of?” (Abortion Without Apology). She argues that abortion is a good thing for women and the society. She sees abortion as an agonizing decision to make in which all women feel somewhat bad about. Pollitt says that society doesn’t take women’s desires for a better life seriously. ***** thesis

Pollitt continues on to say that women are depicted as foolish for wanting to have sex while avoiding pregnancy. She illustrates that anti-abortionists are assuming that pregnancy is just a natural “consequence” of sex and avoiding it makes you look bad. Why should a women give birth to a child if she doesn’t even want it or because she simply just happened to have a child growing in her? The reality is that a women can’t just simply get pregnant. She placed herself in that situation and decided to have sex. …show more content…
Rape or incest is already a huge crime in itself and to bring in abortion as a new life is developing is just double the crime. From the point of view of a former victim, she states, “I was an innocent victim of a horrible crime. I was not to blame for what the rapist did to me. But in choosing to abort, to kill the innocent child growing within me, I lowered myself to the level of the rapist.” -Patricia Ryan. (Abortion for victims of rape and