So the time of my talk today is rights and burdens.

Can a Feminist Be Pro-Life?

And I thought I would tell you a little bit about how

I think arrived at this question

before I kind of dive into the talk.

I don't, many of you probably remember

a couple of years ago with the

inauguration of President Trump there was women marched across the United States

particularly Washington DC in in in a variety of reasons, but in kind of a show of solidarity for women.

And one of the things that happened prior to that march was that a number of pro-life feminist

organizations wanted to join in the so-called Women's March.

And initially they were accepted as co-sponsors of the event.

And then, for whatever reason, a couple days before the actual March,

the March organizers rescinded the co-sponsorship of the pro-life feminist organizations.

And this sparked, I don't know if you remember, but this sparked a lot of

editorials, a lot of discussion throughout the United States about whether this was fair, whether

this was legitimate. And it sparked a lot of conversation about whether or not a feminist could,

you could be a feminist and also be pro-life.

And at that time, I said to my friend, Joe Capizzi, who I understand is on your list of speakers as well, I said, hey, we should, we should, we're the Catholic University of America,

we should be talking about this.

Like, we should, like, bring pro-choice feminists and pro-life

feminists and we should like have them talk about whether a feminist can be pro-life.

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