Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Jessica Valenti

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A clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the attacks on our bodies and freedom—and to do something about it In this, her most urgent book yet, New York Times–bestselling author Jessica Valenti dispels misinformation and cuts through the headline overwhelm to illuminate the full-scale assault conservative lawmakers have launched on women’s freedom—and fundamental human rights. Valenti provides the language to talk about abortion with confidence and the facts to convince. American voters overwhelmingly support abortion rights and have for decades. In the years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, that support has been growing, as nearly seventy-percent of Americans want abortion to be legal in the first three months of pregnancy, and sixty-three percent want abortion medication to be legal. Abortion is among the key tools conservatives use to roll back decades of advances for women, but here Valenti arms readers with the truth needed to fight back and win, not only at the dinner table but at the polling station and all the way to the Supreme Court.


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    absolutely essential reading, especially given the US’s current political climate.

    it’s incredibly infuriating to live in a country where the media and government refuse to fight for women’s bodily autonomy. we’ve been conditioned to see the atrocities and blatant inaccuracies spewed from ignorant and hateful politicians as just another talking point and not for what it actually is: cruel, unusual, and dangerously misinformed. every single woman and person who can carry a child should be able to dictate whether they want to move forward with their pregnancy. no ifs, ands, or buts. any rhetoric in opposition including “exception” language is a threat to bodily autonomy and to the pregnant person’s existence. we deserve the right to choose, and it’s people like Jessica Valenti who are leading the charge.

    i can only hope that opposition to the egregious legislation being pushed by Republicans will continue to increase.

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