The extensive New York Times series in support of legal abortion unfolds as if the last 46 years of the abortion debate following Roe v. Wade never happened and did not need to.
Helen Alvaré
Helen Alvaré is currently a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where she teaches Family Law, Law and Religion, and Property Law. She also serves as chair of the Catholic Women’s Forum, as a consultor for the Pontifical Council of the Laity, an advisor to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and as an ABC news consultant. She cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations on matters concerning women and the family.
In addition to her publications in law reviews and other academic journals on matters concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households, abortion and the First Amendment religion clauses, Alvaré also publishes regularly in news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Examiner. She often speaks at academic and professional conferences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What has Pope Francis taught us 4 years into his papacy?
Pope Francis reminds us to get back to basics in a way that is desperately needed.
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Feminism hasn’t lost its soul
Its truest purveyors are neither elite nor even much noticed.
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False Mercy
The argument tying more legal abortion to the plight of poor women is old.
Posted inSynod on the Family
How do we make the goals of the Synod of the Family a reality?
The "instrumentum laboris," or working document for the coming October Synod on the Family, is a rather overwhelming wish list of pastoral outreach initiatives that the universal church hopes the local church will undertake more fully and better than before. To be sure, its subtitle a
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Outside the Lines
There are huge risks to talking about women, qua women, in the church.
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Francis 101
The pope reminds me that I have to query my choices about time and money and the stuff I buy.
Posted inFrom Our Archives
Speaking of Faith: How should the church talk about what it means to be a Catholic family?
It is no small challenge to speak about “the family in America” given family diversity in this country. It is possible, however, to speak generally about the forces acting on families, and some of their effects within households, in light of the coming deliberations at the Synod of Bisho
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Make Room at the Debate
There’s still no consensus about whether child care is a worthy expenditure of women’s time.
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Familiarity Breeds Content
It is good for Catholics to cheer on one another’s varied works of charity.