abortion | Catholic Moral Theology

Lisa Fullam responds to Julie Clague’s “Structural Inequality and the Social Determinants of Unintended Pregnancy”

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Nov 8, 2024 | Bioethics, Life and Death, Current Events, From the Field, Marriage and Family, Women and Gender | 0 |

This is the eleventh post in our series on the newly published edited volume entitled Reproduction...

Taylor Ott Responds to Mary M. Doyle Roche’s “Rachel Is Weeping for Her Children”

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Nov 1, 2024 | American Politics, From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |

This is the tenth post in our series on Reproduction and the Common Good: Global Perspectives from...

Rev. Dr. Emma Percy responds to “Reproductive Injustice as Social Sin” by Dr. Kathryn Lilla Cox

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 28, 2024 | American Politics, Bioethics, Life and Death, From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |

This is a guest post by Rev. Dr. Emma Percy, University of Aberdeen, in which she engages the book...

Travis LaCouter Responds to Emily Reimer-Barry’s “Catholic Health Care and Reproductive Justice: Whose Conscience Has Priority When Conscience Claims Collide?”

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 18, 2024 | Bioethics, Life and Death, From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |

This is a guest post by Travis LaCouter (KU Leuven) for our series on the CTEWC/JMT edited volume...

Jacob Kohlhaas responds to Hoon Choi’s “Fatherhood, Reproductive Justice, and the Strategic Invisibility of Men”

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 17, 2024 | From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |

Men don’t simply disappear from this discourse, they are made “strategically invisible” by moral imaginations that carry long held biases.

Response to Introduction (Series: Reproduction and the Common Good)

by Emily Reimer-Barry | Oct 15, 2024 | From the Field, Women and Gender | 0 |

As the editors point out, the reproductive justice movement’s attentiveness to the social, emotional, and physical health and well-being of women has plenty of overlap with Catholic social teaching – in particular, its commitments to the common good, solidarity, the preferential option, and an assertion that protecting human rights necessitates positive social supports.