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About Marie Meaney, D.Phil.
Marie Meaney, D.Phil., is the author of When Expecting Doesn’t Happen: Turning Infertility into a Journey of Hope (Emmaus Road, 2022). She is a specialist on the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, on whom she has written two books. She holds graduate degrees in modern languages and philosophy from Oxford University and the International Academy of Philosophy (IAP) in Liechtenstein. She taught at the University of Villanova in Philadelphia before the birth of her daughter. Since then, she has taught courses for the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria. Her previous work on infertility has been published in French, German, Croatian, Hungarian, and Spanish.
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What do women really want? Thoughts on motherhood and career

May 30, 2024 Marie Meaney, D.Phil. 18

Much ink has been spilled on Harrison Butker’s recent commencement speech at Benedictine College. Given the indignant articles and commentary in so many places, one would have thought that Butker wanted women to remain barefoot […]

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It’s time to face the ugly truth about in vitro fertilization

March 8, 2024 Marie Meaney, D.Phil. 39

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Alabama shocked the world by stating that babies in infertility clinics that are frozen, kept in suspended animation, and often forgotten, are human beings with a right […]

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