As it turns out, despite the constant advances of women towards “having it all”, we have a while to go yet. According to Sarah Elizabeth Richards, we women still haven’t quite embraced the ability to control when we have children. Enter egg freezing. Read more…
by Anthony Esolen, Ruth Institute Circle of Experts Member
This article was first published at the public discourse on
Several weeks ago, Saint Valentine’s Day at my school came and went. There was no dance. There was no concert. There was no ice cream social. There was no party for trading little gifts. There was no showing of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon or Marty or Goodbye, Mr. Chips or Casablanca. There were no foolish and innocent flirtations on the way to class. Read more…
Quite often when we think of divorce, the blame seems to lie with the man. He has been unfaithful, unloving, or has taken to drinking too much. But interestingly, according to recent reports, it seems that over the last five years there has been a huge increase in marriages that have broken down because of the woman drinking too much. Read more…
from Helen Alvare
I’ve been working on several projects that have occupied all my little brain cells, including at the United Nations and around the U.S.
Rather than recount individual developments, I want to remark upon a few trends I have noticed. Perhaps these remarks might provide “talking points” when you are confronting arguments nowadays equating liberty for women with women’s (and girls!) sexual license. Read more…
Colleges and Labor Markets Should Adjust to Women’s Needs
By Napp Nazworth
This article was first published at The Christian Post on December 11, 2012.
There is not a “war on women,” but there is a “war on women’s fertility,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist and president of the Ruth Institute, believes. Rather than view fertility as a problem to be solved, Morse argued Friday, fertility should be viewed as a gift from God. Colleges and labor markets should, therefore, adjust to the biological needs of women. Read more…
by Elizabeth Crnkovich
This article was first published December 10, 2012, at the Population Research Institute.
A recent Family in America conference in D.C. lays out the problem, and speaker Jennifer Roback Morse provides a solution.
Past generations of American pioneers, known for their openness to life, would not have believed it. They would be astonished to learn that, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a woman’s fertility is not celebrated but discouraged. Women who marry early, leave the workforce, and devote themselves to the birthing and raising of children are not the norm. On the contrary, a woman is expected to pass her most fertile years acting like a man, building up a strong career, and making a lot of money. Only after she is thus “established” and has “enough money” is she allowed to start thinking about having children. Read more…
by Melissa Steffan
n Tuesday, Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College won a legal round against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contraceptive mandate—not only for themselves, but also for dozens of fellow religious employers that have filed similar suits. Read more…
from Helen Alvare
Yesterday the D.C. Federal Appeals Court reinstated the cases brought against the HHS Mandate by Wheaton and Belmont Abbey Colleges. Two lower courts had dismissed the cases on the grounds that the federal government had not yet issued any “final” rule requiring religious institutions to cooperate in providing “free” contraception, sterilization and “morning- and week-after” pills. But the appeals court decided that vague promises of a new rule were not enough to let the federal government off the hook. Read more…
by Samantha Schroeder, Ruth Institute “It Takes a Family” Summer Conference 2012 alumna.
Last Friday, Rush Limbaugh made a comment toward the end of his talk show blaming feminism for “ruining women.”
Limbaugh commented on feminist academic Camille Paglia’s article in The Hollywood Reporter. He read excerpts from her article critiquing American pop culture, citing it as the source of poor role models for young men and women, and the inaccurate portrayal of a “manliness” epitomized by the Twilight series: Read more…
from Helen Alvare
There’s so much happening, so briefly here are four items I want to share with you:
1) A summary update on the legal challenges against the HHS Mandate.
2) A new resource which will keep you abreast of emerging research concerning contraception and abortion, with a special focus on exposing poor or flawed methodology.
3) A three part series of articles I wrote on thepublicdiscourse.com, this week about the false choice between women’s freedom and religious freedom.
4) A “Save the Date” for a gathering after the March for Life. Read more…
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