Erika Bachiochi
Fellow
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.
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 Policy, Christian Bioethics (Oxford University), The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, First Things, American Compass, 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/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.
More Young Women Will Pursue Family Life If Good Men Step Up
Erika Bachiochi
For those concerned about the demographic cliff that is now before us, the growing cleavage between the sexes is not…
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Institute for Family Studies / April 15, 2025
John Paul II, the Feminist Pope
Erika Bachiochi
Religious podcasters would do well to study his affirmations of women’s equal dignity.
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Wall Street Journal / March 13, 2025
Speaking About Abortion
Erika Bachiochi
In the post-Roe era, effective pro-life advocacy must lead with charity and our duty to protect the most vulnerable.
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Knights of Columbus / January 1, 2025
Rights, Duties, and Relations: Toward a Pro-Woman Feminism for the 21st Century
Erika Bachiochi
Feminism, understood as the peculiar modern ideology of the 20th century, has reached its self-destroying zenith in the erasure of…
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Heritage Foundation / December 31, 2024
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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Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy / May 8, 2024
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