Margaret Pabst Battin is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah and a leading figure in the public debate on end-of-life issues. She has written extensively on religious and ethical concerns in physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and has researched active euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands. Her books include Ending Life: Ethics and the […]

Dr. Robert Brody is a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and chief of the Pain Consultation Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. A former hospice director, he is a Compassion & Choices board member.

Barbara Coombs Lee is chief petitioner of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. She is the president of Compassion & Choices, formed when the Compassion in Dying Federation, based in Portland, merged with End-of-Life Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society.

Timothy Quill, a professor of medicine, psychiatry and palliative care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, was the lead physician plaintiff in the 1977 New York state legal case challenging the prohibition of physician-assisted suicide. He is co-editor of Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice and author of Caring for Patients at […]

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).

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.

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

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.

June 17, 2013, The New York Times article about Republicans decision to push for new legislation that would ban abortion after 22 weeks on both the federal and state levels.