With Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health on the horizon, a host of voices have spoken out about the Supreme Court’s opportunity to rediscovery human right to life in its fullness in the United States Constitution. Fifty years ago, children in the womb were legally marginalized by a majority vote of 7 men on the U.S. Supreme Court who deemed those not yet born as merely “potential life.” Our culture has vastly changed in these past five decades—whether the Court has changed along with it is the question that the outcome in Dobbs will answer. Erika is advocating on many fronts for the human person and for the human family. Erika is a wife, mother of seven, fellow with the Ethics & Public Policy Center, director of the Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Erika is the author of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, in which she offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. Erika, along with 239 other pro-life feminist scholars and professionals, has made her voice heard in the upcoming Supreme Court case. Their message? Roe and its progeny Casey may have foisted abortion upon Americans, but no woman relies on abortion for success in this society. We speak with Erika today on her book, on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, and on reclaiming common good thinking.
