Erika Bachiochi is an American legal scholar and fellow of the

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. She currently serves as the director of The Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute, where she is a senior fellow. Her BA is from

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

, her MA in Theology as a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

, and she received a

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

degree from

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.Ethics and Public Policy Center bio page
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pro-life Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respons ...

. She is the author of ''The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision'', has edited ''Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching'' and ''The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion''.

Early life and education

Erika Bachiochi received a B.A. from

in 1996, an M.A. from

in 1999, and her J.D. from

in 2002. 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.

Publications

Bachiochi's most noteworthy publications are ''Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights,'' published in The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and ''A 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 the Quinnipiac Law Review. Her essays have also appeared in publications such as ''Christian Bioethics'' (

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

), ''The Atlantic'', ''The New York Times'', ''First Things'', CNN.com, ''National Review Online'', ''National Affairs'', ''Claremont Review of Books'', SCOTUSblog, and ''Public Discourse'', and she is an occasional contributor to Mirror of Justice, a blog dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory affiliated with the Program on Church, State & Society at

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. Her newest book, "The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision", was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021.

References

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