40 Years Later: How to Undo the Autonomy Argument for Abortion Rights
In response to pro-choice appeals to autonomy in support of abortion, we feminists should advocate that parents—both mothers and fathers—have binding duties to their unborn child as the product of...
View ArticleWhy U.N. Feminists Should Want to Partner with the Holy See
Both sociological evidence and the teachings of Christianity show that religion is a powerful ally for promoting the equality and dignity of women. Adapted from remarks delivered at the United Nations...
View ArticleRendering the Sexed Body Legally Invisible: How Transgender Law Hurts Women
Whether she knew it or not, when Vanita Gupta, the acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, stated earlier this month that trans women are women and trans men are men, she...
View ArticleSafeguarding the Conditions for an Authentic Human Ecology
Human ecology, a concept developed by sociologists early last century and appropriated by Pope John Paul II in his heralded Centesimus Annus, provides an illuminating lens through which to understand...
View ArticleFamilies, Schools, and Churches: The Building Blocks of a Healthy Social Ecology
Yesterday I explored the concepts of human and social ecology as fitting analogues to natural ecology. Today, I offer three practical suggestions for reviving our social ecology. Like threats to our...
View ArticleWhat Does Justice Roberts’s Ruling Mean for the Pro-Life Cause?
Earlier this week, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal wing of the Court yet again, this time to strike down an abortion regulation he voted to uphold only four years ago. More puzzling...
View ArticleErika Bachiochi on the Future of Pro-Life Feminism
In the latest installment of our Public Discourse interview series, Public Discourse Editor Serena Sigillito talks with legal scholar Erika Bachiochi about the nature of feminism, the metaphysics of...
View ArticleTo Find Your Life’s Mission, Follow Your Questions
Dear Class of 2021, Today is your graduation, an august ceremony in which you will be awarded your high school diploma. You have worked hard and learned much under particularly difficult circumstances...
View ArticleCan Contemporary Feminism Come to Grips with Reality? Four Responses to...
In this month’s Sunday Long Read, Abigail Favale described “Feminism’s Last Battle.” This feminist armageddon centers on a simple question: “is a transgender woman a woman, or is a transgender woman a...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Erika Bachiochi on the Future of Pro-Life Feminism
Note from the editors of Public Discourse: This week, while our staff takes a week off between Christmas and the new year, we are showcasing past conversations we’ve had with leading intellectuals....
View ArticleThe Virtues of Mary Wollstonecraft
In 1978, the University of Chicago Press journal Signs published a short essay introducing Mary Wollstonecraft’s lost anthology of prose and poetry she had published “for the improvement of young...
View ArticleFlourishing in Work and Family Life: Considerations for Young Women
This is the transcript of a virtual panel hosted by Public Discourse and moderated by managing editor Alexandra Davis on November 6, 2023. Six panelists offered their reflections on considerations for...
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