You're going to do. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jersinski Culture

Editor here at The Federalist, as always always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com follow us on X at fDR LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and of course to the premium version of the Federalist

as well. Today we are joined by a professor at the Catholic University of

America, Catherine Pecollic. She's the author of a new book. It is out now. It is called Hannah's Children,

The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dirth. Catherine, thank you so much for joining us.

You're welcome. All right, so tell us a little bit about, I think this is your first time on Federalist Radio

Hour.

If you could just tell us a little bit about your little background in your career and how you got

to where you are writing this book on the women who are quietly

defying the birthdirth with that great rhyme in it. Yeah sorry it's a bit of a

mouthful right this title. No it's great. Later we can talk about how the book got this strange long mouthful of a title.

There's actually a story there which isn't a bad story.

But I'm not unhappy with it.

Yeah, so I teach at the Catholic University of America,

so I'm kind of like a lot of people,

maybe I practice what I preach

or at least I practice what I write about,

which is sort of, I call this like my second career.

I had, I went to grad school and right after, well it's right before I got married after college.

This was like the year in 1998, 99. Hoped we would be blessed with children. We were

blessed with children. So I really took my time going through graduate school and that has

its ups and its downs. You know that you go through graduate school and you're kind of, you know,

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