Thread by @EdWhelanEPPC

Brava!, @erikabachiochi, on rich NYT op-ed setting forth robust pro-life feminist vision. nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opi… 1/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: "Ending the abortion regime must be the keystone of standing against the individualistic libertarianism that characterizes our politics, left and right — and privileges the powerful over the weak and dependent." 2/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: "A post-Roe America will need to move beyond its wrongheaded obsession with autonomy. It will need to align both its rhetoric and its policies better with the realities of human existence and so should work to bring forth a renewed solidarity instead." 3/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: "Reliance on abortion as a backup to contraception tends to disincentivize contraceptive use and otherwise increase sexual risk taking, ***with women, not men, left to manage the asymmetrical risks.***" 4/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: Easy access to abortion helps businesses ensure that women are readily available to meet the all-encompassing needs of the globalized marketplace, delaying real accommodations for time-consuming parenting, especially for women at lowest socioeconomic levels. 5/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: Parasitic image that abortion rights feminists now offer of pregnancy is very different from what Friedan described in “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963 as the “biological oneness in the beginning between mother and child, a wonderful and intricate process.” 6/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi: Pro-life policies built on solidarity should fit with broader GOP agenda on behalf of workers and their families. 7/

@erikabachiochi .@erikabachiochi frames this wisdom in context of expressing gratitude "to those pro-lifers who did what I did not, would not, could not: cast a vote for Donald Trump." nytimes.com/2021/12/07/opi… 8/

@erikabachiochi Notable that @erikabachiochi was (in her words) "a pro-choice women’s studies student at Middlebury College in the 1990s" until "deeply communitarian arguments" of Mary Ann Glendon and joyful pro-life witness caused her to rethink her views. 9/