Erika Bachiochi is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. A legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics, Bachiochi was a 2018 Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.
She is the author of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision (Notre Dame Press, 2021), and the editor of 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’s essays have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Christian Bioethics (Oxford University), The Atlantic, First Things, CNN.com, National Review, National Affairs, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUSblog, and Public Discourse.
Ms. Bachiochi serves on the Advisory Boards of the Common Good Project, EthicsFinder.com, the Catholic Women’s Forum, the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, and St. Thomas More Academy (South Bend). A co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy in Natick, Massachusetts, she and her husband and the happy parents of seven children.
