Pro-Life Feminism Then & Now
Women’s Advocacy for the Vulnerable from the 19th Century to Today
Panel Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Friday, February 16, 2024
Harvard College
Panel will be preceded by 12:30 pm Scholars Workshop with Leah Libresco Sargeant for interested students, faculty, and community members (RSVP and readings required).
Join us at 4:30 pm on Friday, February 16 to discuss the history of Pro-Life Feminism. AAI senior fellow Erika Bachiochi will moderate discussion between Wollstonecraft Fellow Leah Libresco Sargeant and author Monica Klem.
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Panel will be preceded by a 12:30 luncheon with Leah Libresco Sargeant on the topic of the dignity of dependence. RSVP required as seating is limited. Pre-reading is required.
Panelist
Leah Libresco Sargeant is a senior policy analyst at the Niskanen Center (DC) and the 2023-24 Wollstonecraft Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute. She also runs the popular substack community, Other Feminisms. Leah's forthcoming book, The Dignity of Dependence, will be published by Notre Dame University Press.
Panelist
Monica Klem is the co-author of the new book, Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women's Empowerment in Reconstruction America (Encounter Books, 2023). She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Pepperdine University and has been published in Philanthropy magazine and the Almanac of American Philanthropy. Her co-author Madeleine McDowell holds a PhD from Notre Dame in 19th century history.
Moderator
Erika Bachiochi J.D. is a legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, and Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. A graduate of Middlebury College, Erika was a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Politics at Boston College, received her law degree from Boston University School of Law, and spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Her latest book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision was published by Notre Dame University Press in 2021. Erika is also a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.