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Attorney and Professor Elizabeth Kirk is the Center's Director and a Research Associate and Lecturer at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. She joined the Columbus School of Law after serving as the Director and Kowalski Chair of Catholic Thought at the Institute for Faith and Culture at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas. From 2005 to 2010, she served as the Associate Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, an interdisciplinary center inspired by the teachings of St. Pope John Paul II and dedicated to bringing the Catholic moral, intellectual and cultural tradition to bear upon the formation of students. From 2012 to 2016, Kirk served as a resident fellow in cultural and legal studies at the Stein Center for Social Research at Ave Maria University.
Kirk has considerable experience in matters pertaining to the family in law and policy, and is a frequent speaker, media expert, and writer on such matters. She is an associate scholar for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, serving as a legal policy expert, with a special interest in adoption law and policy. In 2010, she helped found the Vita Institute, an intensive interdisciplinary training program for leaders in the national and international pro-life movement held annually at the University of Notre Dame. Kirk is a board member of The Catholic Bar Association and the Fellowship for Catholic Scholars, and formerly served as a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Committee under Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
Kirk’s article, The Role of Adoption in Dobbs-Era Pro-Life Policy:
https://lozierinstitute.org/the-role-of-adoption-in-dobbs-era-pro-life-policy/
Kirk’s article, Supporting Adoption in a Post-Dobbs America:
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/supporting-adoption-in-a-post-dobbs-america/
Kirk’s article, We Need To Talk About Adoption:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/09/we-need-to-talk-about-adoption
Kirk’s article, Countering The Soft Sigma Against Adoption:
https://ifstudies.org/blog/countering-the-soft-stigma-against-adoption
Brave Love website:
https://www.bravelove.org/
I Am That Kid (Adoption Is An Option) website:
https://www.iamthatkid.com/
Option Hope website:
https://www.optionhope.com/
Documentary "I Lived On Parker Avenue":
https://www.ilivedonparkerave.com/
Movie Lifemark:
https://lifemarkmovie.com/
Recent article by anti-adoption advocate, Gretchen Sisson:
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/871268/pdf.
This is the article that describes adoption as the most "evil" of the 3 options:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/04/004-abortion-a-failure-to-communicate
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