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In Defense of Motherhood: What’s Wrong with “Birthing People”

By Filings on Mon, 09/13/21
Society & Culture
Motherhood
Gender Identity
Transgender Politics

“If a mother is just a birthing person … a mother’s child is not hers in any morally thick sense. If children are raised to believe parental authority is arbitrary, and if lawyers and policymakers ingest the same vision, then the rich network of claims and duties binding parents to children will become publicly unintelligible.” - Public Discourse

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Topics: Motherhood, Parenting, Anger
  • My ‘Mom Rage’ Is Understandable. But It’s Not Excusable.
  • The Beauty of Weakness: Our Birthrate Problem and Nadya Williams’ “Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity”
  • Of Boys and Men (and Mothers Too)
  • Amy Coney Barrett’s Message: The Maternal Hero Is a Myth
  • Force fathers to stay at home? A warning from Europe

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