The Rev. John F. Kavanaugh is a philosophy professor at St. Louis University. He wrote the book Who Counts as Persons? Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing.  

Publishes a chart of the various bills through which abstinence-only sex education is funded nationally and in the states.

J. Matthew Wilson is an associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His interests include religion and politics, and voting behavior of religious voters.

Associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina and co-author of the 2008 book Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.

Constitutional law professor at Harvard. His article “If ‘Roe’ Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World” appeared in the St. Louis University Law Journal (2007). 

In this Feb. 2006 story, the government stopped funding of a national program that teaches abstinence-only sex education after the ALCU filed a lawsuit against the group, saying it promoted religion in public schools.

Co-author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (2007). Contact through the book’s publisher, Public Affairs.

Caitlin E. Borgmann is an associate professor at City University of New York School of Law and editor of the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog, which posts news about abortion and other reproductive rights issues. Borgmann has testified before several state legislatures about reproductive rights.

Bristol Palin is perhaps America’s most famous teen mom. She became a “teen-abstinence ambassador” in 2009 for the Candie’s Foundation, and she appeared in a People magazine cover story in which she confided that a teen mom’s job is hard work.