The ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project believes reproductive freedom is a core civil liberty and works to ensure that everyone has access to reproductive health care. Louise Melling is director. See a list of ACLU offices across the country.

Links to groups working to end abortion.

Read a June 7, 2009, New York Times story on where Tiller’s death left the pro-life movement.

Read a June 8, 2009, Washington Post story on why some anti-abortion efforts are moving to the state level.

Read this July 8, 2009, TIME story about whether abortion could sink health reform.

Read a July 14, 2009, Newsweek story on why abortion could be the next stumbling block for health reform.

Jim Towey is a Catholic who succeeded DiIulio as head of the White House’s faith-based program, serving as director until he left that post to become the president of Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., in July 2006. On Aug. 3, 2006, President Bush appointed Jay Hein, president of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research in Indianapolis, as Towey’s […]

John K. White is a political science professor and fellow at the Life Cycle Institute at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

David Leege is an emeritus professor of political science at Notre Dame University and spends much of the year in Arizona. Leege is a leading expert on Catholic voting patterns.