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.

June 13, 2013, WGRZ.com article about plans by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to change the language in his proposed abortion bill.

May 22, 2013, CBSNews.com article about an experimental asthma drug that has had success treating previously untreatable patients.

June 9, 2013, Las Vegas Review-Journal article about Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang who has brought several experimental drugs to Las Vegas.

May 31, 2013, WebMD article about new experimental drugs that are proving successful against prostate cancer.

June 6, 2013, The New York Times article about an experimental autism drug that had success in clinical trials but is now being discontinued.

Elizabeth S. Anderson is a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She contributed the essay “If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?” to Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2007).

Paul Fidalgo is communications manager at the Secular Coalition for America, a policy advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. He has a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University and wrote his thesis on atheists’ precarious place in U.S. politics.