
Erika Bachiochi
Fellow
EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. Her newest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021.
EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. A 2018 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, she is also a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. Her newest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021, and was named a finalist for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award.
Ms. Bachiochi’s essays have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Christian Bioethics (Oxford University), The New York Times, The Atlantic, First Things, CNN.com, National Review Online, National Affairs, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUSblog, and Public Discourse. She is the editor of two books, Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching (Pauline Books & Media, 2010) and The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2004).
Ms. Bachiochi serves on the Advisory Boards of the Common Good Project, the Catholic Women’s Forum, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend), EthicsFinder, and the Center for the Law and the Human Person at the Catholic University of America. She is a co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy in Natick, MA, where she served as President of the Board from 2013–2015.
The Virtues of Mary Wollstonecraft
Erika Bachiochi

In Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent, Emily Dumler-Winckler looks beyond the moderns to show Wollstonecraft’s kinship with ancient and medieval thinkers, especially Aristotle and Aquinas. It’s in the rich Christian tradition especially that Wollstonecraft finds the dynamic resources to treat her “modern” subjects (abolition and women’s education, in particular).
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Public Discourse / June 26, 2023
The Justice Mothers Are Due
Erika Bachiochi

If soldiers deserve a pension for serving their country, mothers also deserve material support. History suggests this is a very American idea.
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Plough Quarterly / May 12, 2023
Sex-Realist Feminism
Erika Bachiochi

Bachiochi takes a deep dive into feminism in a classical sense and connects it to what feminism should truly be.
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First Things / April 1, 2023
Goodness has but One Eternal Standard
Erika Bachiochi

Wollstonecraft’s political argument…was concerned with the advance of intellectual and moral virtue.
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Canopy Forum / January 4, 2023
We’re on opposite sides of the abortion debate but we agree on this
Erika Bachiochi

We urge members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to come to an accord regarding these concerns before they recess for the holidays.
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CNN / December 14, 2022
Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
Erika Bachiochi

As parents have responsibilities to care for, nurture, and educate their children, a just and humane economy and politics ought to help parents carry out those duties of care.
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American Compass / July 17, 2022
What Makes a Fetus a Person?
Erika Bachiochi

Constitutional protection of unborn children as equal “persons” under the law remains the movement’s ultimate — if elusive — goal.
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The New York Times / July 1, 2022
After Roe and Dobbs
Erika Bachiochi

As pro-life advocates and legislators consider how they ought to proceed in the post-Roe era, they should heed the wisdom of the early feminists who, as champions of both women and their dependent children, understood the power – and limits – of the law to effect real change.
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Plough / May 16, 2022
Simone Weil: A Thinker for Our Trying Times
Erika Bachiochi

Weil desired not only to understand the sufferings of the dispossessed but to suffer alongside them.
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Law and Liberty / February 3, 2022
Where Will the Anti-Abortion Feminist Movement Go Post-Roe?
Erika Bachiochi

In Roe’s absence, concerns about women’s economic welfare would have to be addressed as they should: by ending poverty, not unborn lives.
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The New York Times / December 10, 2021
I Couldn’t Vote for Trump, but I’m Grateful for His Supreme Court Picks
Erika Bachiochi

If Roe goes, the pro-life movement can begin where it left off in 1973, working to convince fellow citizens (especially in blue states like mine) that we owe dependent and vulnerable unborn children what every human being is due: hospitality, respect and care.
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The New York Times / December 7, 2021
An Argument for a Revised Feminism, Rooted in a Correct Anthropology
Carl R. Trueman

At the heart of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is the assertion that human beings are not defined by autonomy but rather by relations of dependency and obligation.
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The Catholic World Report / November 26, 2021