Erika Bachiochi

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EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching. She is also the editor-in-chief of Fairer Disputations, the online journal of the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought at the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at ASU. She is a 2024–25 Fellow at the Nesti Center for Faith and Culture at the University of St. Thomas (Houston) where she is teaching a women’s history course in UST’s new Catholic Women and Gender Studies Program.

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EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching. She is also the editor-in-chief of Fairer Disputations, the online journal of the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought at the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at ASU. She is a 2024–25 Fellow at the Nesti Center for Faith and Culture at the University of St. Thomas (Houston) where she is teaching a women’s history course in UST’s new Catholic Women and Gender Studies Program.

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 the Wollstonecraft Project. Her latest 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 PolicyChristian Bioethics (Oxford University), The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, First Things, American Compass, CNN.com, National Review OnlineNational AffairsClaremont 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/Councils of the Moral Ecology Trust at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVA; the Center for the Law and the Human Person at CUA; the American Institute for Boys and Men; the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum; and St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend). She is a co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy and serves on the Board of Trustees at Montrose School.

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The Dead End of Political Misogyny

Erika Bachiochi

The erosion of social trust is a defining mark of our time, a commonplace of today’s jeremiads. From government and…

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Compact Magazine / October 24, 2024

The Duty of the Moment: Retooling the Agrarian Model of Work/Home Integration

Erika Bachiochi

To be fully human, work and home need to be better integrated and responsive to the concrete duty of the moment.

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The Reason of Mary Wollstonecraft: Championing Women and Their Moral Formation

Erika Bachiochi

Ultimately, she placed her hope not in human reason, which she well knew was fallible, but in God’s eternal reason and his promises.

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National Catholic Register / April 29, 2024

The Rights of Women: A Natural Law Approach

Erika Bachiochi

Reorienting our thinking and speaking from rights to responsibilities is a very helpful way to shift out of the autonomy orientation.

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The New Digest / January 2, 2024

Healthy Families Should Be At the Center of Economic Policy

Erika Bachiochi

The health of our families, where infants are nurtured—and both children and their parents are formed—must be at the very center of our politics and economics.

Institute for Family Studies / November 2, 2023

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