Daniel C. Maguire is Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at Marquette University and author of Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions (Fortress Press).
Catholicism is usually seen as being at the forefront of the anti-choice movement that would take moral freedom away from the pregnant person and consign it to male-dominated churches, legislatures, and courts. But a 15th century saint reveals that it was not always so.
