Praise for How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America

The abortion issue is a cover for a fundamentalist ‘anti-contraception’ and ‘anti-sex movement,’ argues this vigorous broadside. In a well-researched and pointed critique of prolife excesses, NARAL official Page (The Smart Girl’s Guide to College) details the multifaceted opposition the Christian right has mounted to a broad range of reproductive rights. Prolife groups, she notes, have fraudulently conflated contraceptives with devices or substances that cause abortion, championed pharmacists who refuse to sell contraceptives, and organized to block over-the-counter sale of ‘Plan B’ emergency contraceptive pills. Attacking both feminism and premarital sex, she contends, they vilify working moms and push ineffective abstinence-only sex-ed curricula, and have even opposed a vaccine against the HPV virus, a major cause of cervical cancer, claiming it would promote promiscuity. The irony, she argues, is that prolifers’ effort to restrict access to contraception actually increases the number of abortions. Against what she believes is the fundamentalists’ dour procreationist ideology and animus toward sexual pleasure itself, Page celebrates the blessings conferred by contraceptives in liberating women, and their families, in our modern ‘pro-choice world,’ claiming that ‘regular sex brings people as much happiness as a $50,000-a-year raise.’ Her defense of the sexual revolution in upbeat—even patriotic—terms makes this a spirited, thought-provoking addition to the culture wars.

Stirring…a provocative salvo in the abortion wars.

Cristina Page, at long last, unmasks the dirty little secret of America’s right wing fanatics. They don’t like sex. They don’t support birth control. Their nutty obsessions pose a very real threat to a century’s worth of social and economic progress. All who cherish freedom must read this original, compelling, and carefully documented work.

Devastating. This book exposes the anti-woman, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-democratic goals of the far right’s true agenda. Cristina Page convincingly demonstrates that the pro-choice side has done far more than anyone else to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Bravo!

This brave and shocking book demonstrated that the ‘pro-life’ movement, for all its maudlin rhetoric is really a puritanical crusade against the joys of sex. This is a major work on women’s rights-but it is also a crucial expose of a common threat to the pursuit of happiness. In short, this is a book for everyone who really loves America.

Finally, a history that accords the women’s liberation struggle its rightful place at the center of the times in which we live. Every political reporter and pundit should read this powerful and insightful book. It’ll wake them up.

From the very first sentence of her book, it’s clear that Cristina Page is looking for common ground—profound understanding—between those frightened to interrupt biology in motion and those determined to control their own destiny. Page understands that to be alive is to be sexual, and she brings to this discussion something much more interesting than violent rhetoric\: insight informed by genuine compassion.

At a time in our national life when so many vital issues seem to be deliberately obscured by lies and half-truths coming down from high places, this book delivers the kind of clarity, backed by research and insight, that comes as a welcome relief.

Cristina Page has written a powerful, persuasive and well-documented account showing how the policies of the Pro-life movement result in millions of unintended pregnancies and abortions—not to mention hundreds of thousands of deaths.

The Christian Right is often pilloried, but seldom understood. Cristina Page shows us that pro-lifers aren’t just waging war against abortion\; they’re targeting contraception and even sex itself - abusing science, and causing considerable societal damage in the process.