Katha Pollitt quote ✍️

There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted to perform them for “therapeutic” reasons — to save a woman’s life, for example.7 But what did that mean, exactly? An amicus curiae brief in Roe from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups observed that “a woman suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer whose pregnancy worsens the underlying pathology may be denied a medically indicated therapeutic abortion under the statute because death is not certain.

Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative — an absence of company, and, of course, something temporary... That day I had learned that it was much more. It…

Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democr…

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the…