Paula Arai is an associate professor of Asian religions and a specialist in Buddhist studies at Louisiana State University.

Kristin Scheible is assistant professor of religion at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and serves on the steering committee of the American Academy of Religion’s Buddhism section. She can address questions about Theravāda Buddhism, South and Southeast Asian Buddhist history, Buddhist literature and Buddhism in the West.

Sharon Suh is a professor and chair of the department of theology and religious studies at Seattle University. She specializes in the study of Buddhism and was an advisor to the Pew Research Center on its study of Buddhism.

Read “Mississippi’s Ambiguous ‘Personhood’ Amendment,” an Oct. 31, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times that set out some of the problems of biology and the law that Mississippi’s proposed amendment faced.

Read a Jan. 12, 2013, Christian News Network article about a unanimous ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court concerning a state law that protects children from exposure to illegal drugs. “The plain meaning of the word ‘child’ in the chemical endangerment statute includes unborn children,” the court determined.

Read a Jan. 15, 2013, Religion News Service story about the new leader for the March for Life rally and the next generation of anti-abortion activists.

Read a Jan. 17, 2013, Businessweek story, “How State Governments Are Regulating Away Abortion.”

Read a Jan. 18, 2013, National Catholic Register story about criticism of the Pew Forum survey on attitudes about abortion 40 years after Roe.

Read a Jan. 18, 2013, Huffington Post story in which former GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum described abortion as a symptom of spiritual malaise in America. Santorum said universities are indoctrinating young people to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other practices and are “promoting a ‘sea of antagonism toward Christianity.’”