Dec 17

Dec 17 Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

About the book

Author: Jessica Valenti
Publisher: Crown Publishing

More info:
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My Review

I don’t know how to explain to you how important it is that you read this book.

If you have ever read Valenti’s Abortion, Every Day newsletter, you know that she s the real effing deal: a smart, rageful journalist on a mission. She spends her days paying really, REALLY close attention to everything anti-abortionists are doing every day so we don’t have to; she spots the patterns and notices the deceptive BS and holds them to account, demanding everyone else does too.

In this book, Valenti has laid out the most important facts and troubling patterns that she references in her newsletter daily; you could almost see it as a kind of “Abortion, Every Day 101.” The information she provides is not only thorough but extremely usable. If you’d like to read some of my biggest takeaways that I’ll be using in conversations going forward, check out this deep-dive I wrote on Substack.

Bottom line, this is absolutely required reading, especially as we head into this second Trump administration. Don’t wait. And subscribe to Abortion, Every Day!