The African-American Juvenile Justice Project assists African-American children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. It aims to hold “both the system and the African-American community accountable for the lives of our children.” Attorney Sherri Jefferson founded the project. Contact via her website.

Rebecca Rae Anderson is the vice chair of health promotion, social and behavioral health sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.  She is a board-certified genetic counselor, a member of the Social, Ethical, Legal Issues Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics and the author of Religious Traditions and Prenatal Genetic Counseling.

Jennifer Collins is a law professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is co-author of an article on issues raised by Octomom, “Eight Is Enough,” in Northwestern Colloquy.

Read a Jan. 25, 2010, New York Times story about advances in fertility technology and the potential and current ethical and legal problems they pose.

In October 2009, Nature magazine published an editorial calling for a “realistic definition of life’s end” in order to facilitate the harvesting and donation of organs, among other things. The editorial sums up the current laws and policies and the state of the debate.

On Jan. 6, 2011, the Obama administration reversed course on end-of-life counseling regulations due to concerns that they would revive the “death panels” controversy. Read about it in an article from Christianity Today.

Read a June 6, 2011, “Personal Health” column in The New York Times about a New York State law, the Palliative Care Information Act, that requires doctors to offer to discuss end-of-life care with terminally ill patients. California passed a similar law in 2009 and other states are considering similar measures.

Transgender Spirituality is a WebRing website designed to provide a forum for transgendered or transsexual people to share their views of religion and spirituality.

Susan’s Place is an website created by Susan Larson to provide resources for and about transgendered people.