When I told my Dad I was writing a book about contraception, his first question (after a beat) was, “But what am I going to tell my friends?”
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Katelyn Walls Shelton
Katelyn Walls Shelton is a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing Program and a 2025 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.