The Rev. Charles E. Bouchard, O.P., is a moral theologian and president of the Aquinas Institute of Theology, a Dominican graduate school in St. Louis.

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.

Read a May 3, 2013, story at Slate about emerging technologies that could give people enhanced abilities. It asks: “If humans become superhuman, will we turn out to be superheroes — or supervillains?”

Read a July 23, 2009, Washington Post story about why abortion opponents criticize the health reform bills before Congress.

Read a July 28, 2009, Los Angeles Times story describing how abortion could further stall health reform.

Michael Horan is a theologian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles who can relate Catholic beliefs to Catholic practice, particularly in the political realm. Horan believes hard-line tactics by bishops to deny communion to abortion rights politicians can backfire.

A Nov. 13, 2007 Washington Post piece on the former governor of Virginia cutting funding for abstinence education programs.

A white paper from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice discusses Jewish perspectives on abortion.

Read their official statement on abortion.