In my previous post, I listed and linked to six books author by prolife authors, only one of which was not a college or university professor. It was brought to my attention by writer Sara Pulliam Baily that none of the authors are women. She writes on twitter:
@fbeckwith@between2worlds I could see the point that these authors aren’t consulted. Also, are there women you’d add? Thanks for dialogue.
— Sarah Pulliam Bailey (@spulliam) August 10, 2015
To which I replied:
@spulliam@between2worlds yes, but unfortunately, among academics prolife women have to keep a low profile. Will post their articles on blog
— Francis J. Beckwith (@fbeckwith) August 10, 2015
Although I know quite a few female prolife academics (and non-university affiliated scholars)–some of whom I count as close and dear friends–most of them have not written or published on the issue of abortion. The ones that have done so have not published the sorts of general defenses of the prolife position as have their male counterparts, such as those listed in my prior post. Rather, they have focused on specific arguments and questions. Here is a modest list of such works, as I promised Sarah I would publish on this blog:
- Mary Ann Glendon, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)
- Erika Bachiochi, “Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 3, Summer 2011
- Helen Alvare, “Evangelium Vitae, Abortion: A Response to Leslie Griffin,” in Kevin Wildes and Alan Mitchell, eds., Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae (Georgetown University Press, 1997)
- Sidney Callahan, “Abortion and the Sexual Agenda: A Case for Pro-Life Feminism,” Commonweal 113 (25 April 1986): 232-38
- Teresa S. Collett, “Previability Abortion and the Pain of the Unborn,” Washington & Lee Law Review 71 (2014)
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, “‘Roe v. Wade’: Speaking the Unspeakable,” Great Cases in Constitutional Law, ed. by Robert P. George (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000)
- Celia Wolf-Devine, “Abortion and the Feminine Voice,” Public Affairs Quarterly 3.3 (July 1989)
- Celia Wolf-Devine and Philip E. Devine, “Abortion: A Communitarian Pro-Life Perspective,” in Abortion: Three Perspectives by Michael Tooley, Celia Wolf-Devine, Philip E. Devine, and Alison M. Jaggar (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)