Schiltz on Motherhood

As a follow-up to Patrick's post, my colleague Lisa Schiltz's paper, Motherhood and the Mission: What Catholic Law Schools Could Learn from Harvard about Women, is available here.  Also note that Lisa has contributed a chapter to an important new book setting forth a view of motherhood that is increasingly counter-cultural, Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics.  From the description:

This book tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves, or shouldn't have babies because of some imperfection in the child. They have confronted the stigma of disability and in the face of silent disapproval and even open hostility, had their babies anyway, in the belief that all life is valuable and that some are not more worthy of it than others. This is a book about women who have dared challenge the utilitarian medical model/mindset.

Rob