Reproductive Justice and the Catholic Church: Advancing Pragmatic Solidarity with Pregnant Women is available for purchase from Bloomsbury as well as Amazon and other retailers.
The book initiates a new conversation in the Catholic Church about women’s experiences of miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. A reproductive justice approach seeks to support women in the midst of complex pregnancy discernments. In a review published by U.S. Catholic (October 2024, 39), Michelle Arnold writes that “This is no dry academic tome.” And further: “Reimer-Barry brings to her work a love for the Catholic tradition and hope for its future.”
It was reviewed by Conor Kelly in the July 2026 Journal of Moral Theology, where he writes that the book is “meticulously researched and faithful to both the ‘complexity and ambiguity of human reproduction’ and the subtleties of Catholic moral thinking.”
The book was referenced in Kate Ward, “Notes on Theological Ethics: The 2024 Presidential Election” in Theological Studies 86:2 (June 2025): 292-311. Reproductive Justice and the Catholic Church was promoted in an international book tour (France and England, November 2024), at the San Diego Book Festival on August 23, 2025; and at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Washington, DC, on Friday, January 9, 2026.
I am grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost at the University of San Diego for their support of my 2021-2022 sabbatical research leave as well as faculty travel funds and the Steber Professorship.
