Read a June 12, 2013 Huffington Post article about the ec0-villages, or cohousing communities, that are becoming a popular trend for adults and seniors alike.

In 2009, the White House put together a task force on abortion reduction proposals, an effort that stirred mixed reactions at the time, as this Wall Street Journal story recounts.

Americans are conflicted about the morality of abortion, but a majority say it should be legal in all or most cases, according to a survey conducted in April and May 2011 by the Public Religion Research Institute.

Efforts by some abortion opponents to pass so-called “personhood amendments” have all failed and the strategy appears to have diminished as an effective weapon. These amendments are aimed at effectively ending legalized abortion by making destruction of an embryo at any stage and for any reason illegal. Even some allies of the anti-abortion movement say they are […]

Read a Jan. 4, 2013, New York Times story, “Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abortion Arena.”

Read a CNN story on the Pew findings and the results in various religious groups.

Marsha Cohen is a law professor at Hastings College of Law of the University of California, San Francisco. Her expertise include food and drug law, torts and administrative law.

Dr. Leonard Deftos is a physician, medical researcher and lawyer. He is a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, a physician at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Maxwell Mehlman is the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case School of Law and Professor of Biomedical Ethics in the Case School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He is co-author of Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy and author of Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of […]