Can a Feminist Be Pro-Life? | Prof. Angela Knobel

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🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on February 4, 2020.

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Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Thomist, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, International Philosophical Quarterly and The Journal of Moral Theology.

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0:00.0	So thank you, Kayla. Thanks to everybody for coming during your lunch hour to listen to this talk.
0:07.0	Can everybody hear me okay? I'm going to be boring and read my paper, but before I start reading my paper, I just want to say a few words about how I arrived at this topic.
0:20.0	I'm a philosopher.
0:21.6	I write about old dead people.
0:23.6	I don't think much about this topic.
0:26.6	But a few years ago, in 2016, many of you remember, there was the Woman's March and there was some discussion
0:43.8	immediately before the Women's March about because a few days before the March some
0:50.1	pro-life feminist groups were they had their sponsorship they were co-sponsors of the Women's were, they had their sponsorship.
0:55.0	They were co-sponsors of the Women's March,
0:57.2	and they had their sponsorship revoked.
1:00.7	And there was some discussion about that.
1:03.2	About at the time, a national discussion about whether or not
1:07.8	one could be, one could call oneself pro-life and also call oneself at the same time a feminist.
1:13.6	And I remember I said to a friend of mine who runs an institute at Catholic You, I said,
1:19.6	well, we're a university, we ought to be discussing this. You know, we could invite
1:24.6	pro-life feminists, pro-choice feminists, and they could discuss this.
1:28.3	And we should do this.
1:30.3	And he said, you're right, that's a great idea.
1:32.3	You organize it.
1:33.3	I'll pay for it.
1:35.3	So I organized it.
1:37.3	And I had this funny experience organizing the discussion.
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