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There’s No Such Thing As Pro-Life Feminism

It is well past time to scuttle establishment feminism and work with women’s human nature instead of against it.

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In a recent meeting with the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography, Pope Leo XIV was highly critical of trends leading “to a time of drastic sterility.” The Holy Father warned that “we are not infrequently faced with the contradictory claims of purportedly family-friendly policies, which simultaneously promote discrimination against motherhood, exalt abortion as a right, and undermine the very foundation of the desire to start a family.”

Despite decades of fighting this “drastic sterility,” Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic haven’t been able to course correct on the issue of abortion. The reasons for this continued failure, which seem so elusive, might actually be hiding in plain sight.

Decades ago, the idea was hatched to infiltrate the intellectual space of feminism and flood it with a “pro-life feminism” (also called “new feminism”). The subversive effort, organizers believed, would gradually sway women away from the pro-abortion feminism and naturally draw them into the pro-life ranks, thereby replacing the culture of death with the culture of life.

Through this plan, pro-life feminism became the default way to fight abortion through scholars, books, conferences, public policy influence, nonprofit organizations, and academic programs. But what has the effect been on abortion?

This vision of flipping pro-aborts into pro-lifers hasn’t been realized. Although some feminists have had a change of heart, the grand vision of “a pro-life feminism” not only hasn’t worked — as seen in the numerous pro-life losses since the fall of Roe — but has deeply damaged the pro-life movement. Here are five reasons pro-life feminism has not only failed but also had catastrophic consequences on the church and wider culture.

1. Misunderstanding Feminism

The first problem is that pro-life feminism accepted the saccharine and utterly false claim that feminism is “just about helping women” or simply about human rights. The reality is much more bitter. Feminism, from its 18th-century roots to today, has been about condemning men (Smash the patriarchy!)........

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