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. Bachiochi is a Catholic feminist who identifies as

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. 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

Bachiochi received a B.A. from

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in 1996, an M.A. 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 university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

in 1999, and a J.D. from

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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 publications include ''Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights,'' published in the ''

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'', 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'' (

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/ref> 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 most recent book, ''The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision'', was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021.

References

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