The American Museum of Natural History maintains a Darwin section on its website based on a popular exhibit that appeared at the New York City museum from 2005 to 2006. The exhibition has traveled to Boston, Toronto and Chicago before going to the Natural History Museum in London for the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth.

An May 31, 2013, opinion piece published in the New York Times that asks if force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike constitutes torture. The question came about after detainees in the U.S.’s Guantánamo Bay prison facility in Cuba refused to be fed in protest of new rules.

Stephen Todd Chasen is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and an associate attending obstetrician and gynecologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He was lead author of “Dilation and evacuation at/or 20 weeks: comparison of operative techniques,” a study published in the May 2004 American Journal […]

Elizabeth Marquardt is director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values. She is co-editor of When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America (2011) and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

Unmarried Equality (originally the Alternatives to Marriage Project) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for equality and fairness for unmarried people. The organization, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., says it does not oppose marriage but wants validation and support, including nondiscriminatory public policies, for those who are single or in nonmarital relationships.

Nancy Northup is the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women’s reproductive freedom. Contact senior press officer Kate Bernyk.

Barbara Coombs Lee is chief petitioner of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act. She is the president of Compassion & Choices, formed when the Compassion in Dying Federation, based in Portland, merged with End-of-Life Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society.

Timothy Quill, a professor of medicine, psychiatry and palliative care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, was the lead physician plaintiff in the 1977 New York state legal case challenging the prohibition of physician-assisted suicide. He is co-editor of Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice and author of Caring for Patients at […]

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.