“Women, Pregnancy, and Authentic Reproductive Justice”
This session unpacks the social and cultural realities that influence a woman's decision to seek an abortion. Ms. Bachiochi will offer a vision of feminism that uplifts the unique beauty of a woman’s capacity to bear life and explore how this understanding of feminism may impact our culture and policy to empower women.
About the speaker: Erika Bachiochi is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. A graduate of Middlebury College with graduate degrees from Boston College and Boston University School of Law, Ms. Bachiochi was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2018-2019. Her publications include Women, Sex, and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching and The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion. Her newest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision will be published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021.