Nancy Northup

Nancy Northup is the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women’s reproductive freedom. Contact senior press officer Kate Bernyk.

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Arthur Dyck

Arthur Dyck is a Harvard University professor of population ethics.. His main concentration is in ethical theory, with special application to questions of moral knowledge, human rights, and bioethics.

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Daniel Dombrowski

Daniel Dombrowski is a professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He is the co-author of A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion (University of Illinois Press, 2006).

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Richard Doerflinger

Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is a bioethicist who writes frequently on euthanasia. He has written extensively on Roman Catholic teachings on bioethics and testified before Congress. Many of his articles are posted on the Pro-Life Activities bioethics web page.

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William Saunders

William Saunders is senior vice president for legal affairs and senior counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL). He directs AUL’s international project and writes and speaks on a wide-range of life-related and human rights topics.

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Anne Hendershott

Anne Hendershott is a professor of psychology, sociology and social work at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. She is the author of The Politics of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2006).

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Susan Low Bloch

Susan Low Bloch is a law professor at Georgetown University. She is an expert in constitutional law, communications law and courts and judges and she teaches a seminar on the Supreme Court.

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Randy E. Barnett

Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University. He is an expert in constitutional law and contracts.

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“House committee advances national late-term abortion ban”

June 12, 2013, The Hill article about the House Judiciary Committee sending a national late-term abortion ban to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. The bill would ban abortion after 22 weeks based on the disputed premise that fetuses can feel pain at 22 weeks of pregnancy.

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