Dr Ellie Lee
Co-ordinator, Pro-Choice Forum
Ellie Lee is a lecturer in social policy at Kent University, and before that worked at Southampton University as a lecturer, then as research fellow, working on a study about teenage pregnancy and abortion. She is the author of 'Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the US and Britain' and is also the author of many articles and studies about abortion, contraception, and reproductive technologies.

Dr Hazel Biggs
Hazel is a lecturer in law, and Director of Medical Law at the University of Kent. Much of her research centres on pro-choice arguments and their impact on decision-making at the beginning and the end of life. She has published and lectured extensively on reproductive choice, feminist legal theory and end of life issues. She believes that abortion law and ethics are presently inseparable but that raising awareness of the tensions between the limitations of the present legal position and the constraints it generates will expose the potential for legal reform.


Dr Lesley Hoggart
Lesley is a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute. Her research interests include feminist political action and the politics of reproductive choice; and young people's sexual behaviour and reproductive decision-making. She studied for her doctoral degree, on the social policy and politics of birth control and abortion in Britain, at Goldsmiths College. She has since written a number of articles on feminist campaigns for reproductive choice, teenage pregnancy and young people's sexual decision-making. Her book, Birth Control and Abortion Rights: political conflict and policy negotiation in Britain, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2002.


Dr Melanie Latham
Melanie is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her expertise lies in the area of comparative health care law and politics, particularly as it effects women. She has published on topics including assisted conception, abortion, emergency contraception and bioethics. Her book, Regulating Reproduction: a century of conflict in Britain and France, is published by Manchester University Press.


Professor Emily Jackson
Emily is Professor of Medical Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She previously taught at LSE, Birkbeck College and St Catharine's College Cambridge. She is the author of Regulating Reproduction Law, Technology and Autonomy (Hart, 2001).


Dr Maxine Lattimer
Dr Maxine Lattimer studied for her doctoral degree at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Sussex. Her research focused on the social, cultural and organisational context in which women make their abortion decisions in contemporary Britain. She has worked for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Birth Control Trust


Professor Sally Sheldon
Sally is a Professor of Law at the University of Keele. Having studied at the universities of Kent and Bordeaux I, she went on to write her doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence. Her thesis, a socio-legal study of the regulation of abortion services, was later published by Pluto Press under the title Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion Law (1997). She has also written a number of articles and book chapters on abortion, reproduction and other bioethical issues, as well as co-editing a collection of essays entitled Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law (Cavendish, 1998). She is currently an ESRC fellow, and is working on a co-authored book on fatherhood (with Richard Collier).