Katelyn Walls Shelton is the former Special Assistant for Global Women’s Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services. She is now a Paul Ramsey Bioethics Fellow and Opinion Contributor to WORLD Magazine, focusing her writing on women’s health and beginning of life issues. Katelyn studied law and religion at Yale University, earning her MAR in Ethics from Yale Divinity School. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, John, and their children.