{"id":41953,"date":"2014-11-11T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:37:05","slug":"katha-pollitt-urges-us-to-reclaim-abortion-rights-with-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/11\/katha-pollitt-urges-us-to-reclaim-abortion-rights-with-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Katha Pollitt Urges Us to Reclaim Abortion Rights With New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\" http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141111Uprising\/2014_11_11_katha_pollitt.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Katha Pollitt <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\" http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141111Uprising\/2014_11_11_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/katha_pollitt_pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Among the things decided in last week&#8217;s election were the rights of the so-called unborn. In recent years fertilized eggs inside women&#8217;s bodies have begun gaining more rights than the women themselves &#8211; an obvious cover for curtailing the right to an abortion. Conservative extremists are pushing what they call &#8220;personhood&#8221; laws to make this happen. But voters are not having it &#8211; at least not in Colorado and North Dakota where personhood measures were soundly defeated, 2 to 1. <\/p>\n<p>But in Tennessee, voters amended their state constitution to say, &#8220;Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.&#8221; The amendment opens the door to draconian measures the likes of which have already been passed by the legislature but struck down by courts. <\/p>\n<p>The reality is that one-third of all American women have had an abortion. But because of the fundamentalist framing of the issue, it has now become a dirty secret, the result of an &#8220;agonizing decision.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Katha Pollitt is a poet and essayist, and an acclaimed columnist for the Nation. She has written the books, Virginity or Death! and Learning to Drive. Her latest book is called simply, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/katha-pollitt\">Click here<\/a> to read Katha Pollitt&#8217;s work in the Nation Magazine, and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/proreclaimingabortionrights\/kathapollitt\">click here<\/a> to find out more about her book Pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the things decided in last week&#8217;s election were the rights of the so-called unborn. In recent years fertilized eggs inside women&#8217;s bodies have begun gaining more rights than the women themselves &#8211; an obvious cover for curtailing the right to an abortion. Conservative extremists are pushing what they call &#8220;personhood&#8221; laws to make this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41963,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions\/41963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}