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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue.
 
In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti…


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The title of Chapter 1 says it all: “Abortion Is Good, Actually.”

Finally! This truth is out in the open. Jessica Valenti writes, “It is not tragic, something to be apologized for, or a ‘necessary evil.’ It is proactively, objectively, good.” She continues, “Forcing someone to be pregnant when they don’t want to be is dangerous and cruel.” And: “America supports abortion. It’s time we acted like it.”

Abortion is good because it is basic health care. Because all women—not only those who have been raped or whose health is in danger—need access to it. Because pregnancy is not a…

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