• Motherhood enables self-giving.
• Naturally disposed (physically and psychologically) to Motherhood as a gift from God.
• Husband owes a special debt to women in role of
• Pregnancy is passive still (link to Aristotle and Aquinas)
• Pain of childbirth = consequence for original sin, but
also allows insight into the suffering of Christ.
• Also claims the suffering of childbirth is ‘immediately
forgotten’ on welcoming a child into the world.
• Motherhood should give women special dignity and
