Personhood USA was the leading group behind Mississippi’s failed personhood amendment proposal in 2011, a proposal the organization said at the time it hoped to advance in every state. Groups that oppose abortion have not united behind that effort, though. A personhood amendment proposal in Colorado, for example, failed to get the backing of the Catholic Church, the Colorado Eagle Forum or […]

According to Stateline, the news service of the Pew Center on the States, 2012 brought “a near-record number of anti-abortion laws and provisions” at the state level. See other Stateline articles dealing with abortion, as well.

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School is a not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost. They provide free access to the law online and create materials to help people understand the law. Thomas R. Bruce directs the Institute.

The U.S. Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1997.

Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States.

The Rev. Derrick Harkins is the national director of interfaith outreach for the Democratic National Committee. He also serves as senior vice president for innovations in public programming at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Robert E. Moffit is a senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Policy Innovation. Previously, Moffit directed The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies and specializes in health care and entitlement programs, especially Medicare. Interview requests are processed through his page on The Heritage Foundation’s website.

Sandra L. Thurman is the director of the Interfaith Health Program (IHP) and the president of the International AIDS Trust at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Ga.

Gary Gunderson is a professor of faith and health of the public at Wake Forest University as well as the vice president of faith and health ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is an ordained American Baptist minister and the author of several books on faith and health including Religion and […]