Opinion Today: Did the sexual revolution stall women’s rights?

The legal scholar Erika Bachiochi offers a critique of modern sex, contraception and abortion. 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Wade is overturned, as Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggests it will be, then we will enter a political world that anti-abortion activists have dreamed of for years. But is it a world they, or their movement, are ready for? Where will social conservatives [put their energy](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkeIirP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8xMS91cy9hbnRpLWFib3J0aW9uLW1vdmVtZW50LXJvZS12LXdhZGUuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMDUzMSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD02Mjc4OSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD05Mzc5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYoarA5ZijTBiOlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) after Roe falls? That’s a question we’ve been mulling at [The Ezra Klein Show](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkeIirP0TIaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vY29sdW1uL2V6cmEta2xlaW4tcG9kY2FzdD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMDUzMSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD02Mjc4OSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD05Mzc5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYoarA5ZijTBiOlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), a Times Opinion podcast. As part of our series exploring the rising intellectual currents on the right following Donald Trump’s presidency, we began asking conservatives who they thought was doing the most interesting work to map out a post-Roe vision. One name that kept coming up was Erika Bachiochi, director of the Wollstonecraft Project at the Abigail Adams Institute and author of “The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision.” Bachiochi does not support the right to abortion on moral grounds, but she goes further than that: Her argument is that the sexual revolution, techno-pharmacological contraception and abortion have harmed women as a class and allowed the market to take primacy over the family. “The abortion-backed contraceptive revolution gives men more reason to walk away from unexpected pregnancy,” she tells Ezra Klein [in today’s episode](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkeIirP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8wNS8zMS9vcGluaW9uL2V6cmEta2xlaW4tcG9kY2FzdC1lcmlrYS1iYWNoaW9jaGkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMDUzMSZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD02Mjc4OSZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD05Mzc5MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYoarA5ZijTBiOlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), arguing that this has “stalled” women’s progress toward equality with men. In their conversation, Bachiochi posits that access to hormonal contraception and abortion led to a wider embrace of “casual sex culture.” She believes this has caused destructive outcomes like the breakdown of the traditional family structure, the feminization of poverty and a capitulation of the feminist movement to free-market demands for endless work over flexibility for caregiving. To her, the radical promise of the women’s movement was lost when some feminists in the late 1960s started to fight for abortion rights alongside their anti-discrimination efforts. That shift served the needs of corporations at a great cost to women, she argues. 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