Heather Busby is executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, which promotes reproductive choices for women.

Joseph Fink is a professor of pharmacy law and policy at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. He has written about pharmacy law and ethics and is a founder of the American Society of Pharmacy Law. Contact  [email protected].

Paige Johnson is director of public affairs of Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina.

James Trussell is a professor of economics and public affairs and faculty associate with the Office of Population Research at Princeton University in New Jersey. He has an expertise in abortion and advocates making emergency contraception widely available as a means of reducing unintended pregnancies and runs a website on the topic.

Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist, is University professor at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the author of From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

David Luban is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He teaches about legal ethics and has written in an online blog that “pacifists should not join the Army, and people who do not wish to fill prescriptions should not become pharmacists.”

An institute of higher-education located in Michigan that offers programs in Islamic studies.

Hamid Dabashi  is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of several books, including, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism.

A BBC article on Islam explains that abortion is generally forbidden by the religion, but is acceptable if having the baby will put the mother’s life in danger.