Erika Bachiochi | |
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| Alma mater | Middlebury College Boston College Boston University |
| Notable work | The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision |
Erika Bachiochi is an American legal scholar and fellow of theEthics and Public Policy Center. She currently serves as the director of the Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute, where she is a senior fellow.[1] Bachiochi is aCatholic feminist who identifies aspro-life.[2] She is the author ofThe Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision,[3] has editedWomen, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching andThe Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion.[4][dead link]
Bachiochi received a B.A. fromMiddlebury College in 1996, an M.A. in theology as a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion atBoston College in 1999, and a J.D. fromBoston University School of Law in 2002.[5][6][7] She served as a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Politics at Boston College, and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School.[1]
Bachiochi's publications includeEmbodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights,[7] published in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, andA Putative Right in Search of a Constitutional Justification: Understanding Planned Parenthood v Casey's Equality Rationale and How It Undermines Women's Equality, published in theQuinnipiac Law Review.[8]
Her essays have also appeared in publications such asChristian Bioethics (Oxford University),The Atlantic,The New York Times,First Things,CNN.com,National Review Online,National Affairs,Claremont Review of Books,SCOTUSblog, andPublic Discourse.[9] She is an occasional contributor toMirror of Justice, a blog dedicated to the development ofCatholic legal theory affiliated with the Program on Church, State & Society atNotre Dame Law School.[10]
Her most recent book,The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021.[11]