(CT) – Leah Libresco Sargeant’s doggedly pro-life feminist manifesto argues that dependence is inevitable.

The normal condition for humans is dependence—we start and finish there, and by gradations we depend on others throughout our lives. A system presupposing independence has a “false anthropology,” Sargeant writes. She argues that society should do better to recognize human need. She argues that women, sometimes treated as inferior because of bodily realities, should not have to “prune themselves” to win equality.

The hinge connecting those arguments most directly is women’s proximity to dependence. (Read More)