Katelyn Walls Shelton
Visiting Fellow
Katelyn Walls Shelton is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing Program. She is a women’s health policy expert and, as a 2025-2026 recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, is conducting a year-long research project on reproductive biotechnology and human nature.
Katelyn Walls Shelton is a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Bioethics, Technology and Human Flourishing Program. She is a women’s health policy expert and, as a 2025-2026 recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, is conducting a year-long research project on reproductive biotechnology and human nature.
As the former Special Assistant for Global Women’s Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Ms. Shelton assisted in executing the Protecting Life in Global Health Policy (PLGHP) initiative at the United Nations and World Health Organization. A former Paul Ramsey Bioethics Fellow, she often writes on women’s reproductive health and the beginning of life.
Katelyn received a master’s degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School and a dual bachelor’s degree from Union University. She’s an inaugural opinion contributor to WORLD Magazine and her work and commentary have appeared in a diverse range of outlets, including Fox News, The Gospel Coalition, Washington Examiner, Slate, and Mother Jones, among others.
She and her husband, John, live with their four young children near Washington, D.C.
EPPC Scholars Encourage HHS to Ensure Healthcare Benefits Promote Restorative Reproductive Medicine, Treat Diagnosed Infertility
Aaron Kheriaty, Eric Kniffin, Jamie Bryan Hall, Katelyn Walls Shelton, Rachel N. Morrison
On July 13, 2026, EPPC Scholars Eric Kniffin, Rachel N. Morrison, Aaron Kheriaty, Katelyn Walls Shelton, and Jamie Bryan Hall…
Public Comments
PDF / July 20, 2026
America250 Forum, Day 3: Giving Thanks as American Christians
Katelyn Walls Shelton
“Why Do You Love America?” “Why do you love America?” an acquaintance recently asked me, seemingly annoyed. The blunt nature…
Articles
Mere Orthodoxy / July 2, 2026
Trump and Iran: Mission Not Accomplished
Katelyn Walls Shelton
To the Editor: Re “Breakthrough in Embryonic Editing Stirs Debate” (front page, June 6): This article rightly raises one bioethical…
Articles
New York Times / June 18, 2026
Sarah Ruden’s Alternative History of Women
Katelyn Walls Shelton
Reading Sarah Ruden’s Reproductive Wrongs, one might think that any ill that has befallen womankind since at least antiquity is due to…
Articles
National Review Online / June 18, 2026
What the Awkwardness of Sterilization Tells Us
Katelyn Walls Shelton
Our instinctive discomfort reveals something about the unnaturalness of these procedures.
Articles
Christianity Today / May 6, 2026
Survivors among discarded brothers and sisters
Katelyn Walls Shelton
Duke’s Boozer twins show what IVF can do for the living, but the lives of the lost are routinely forgotten
Articles
WORLD Opinions / March 31, 2026
The mail-order abortion regime
Katelyn Walls Shelton
New data reveals the Biden abortion policy hurts women, so why is Trump promoting it?
Articles
WORLD Opinions / March 26, 2026
Technically Human: Dr. Naomi Whittaker
Katelyn Walls Shelton
on restorative reproductive medicine, femtech, & the purpose of medicine
Articles
Technically Human / February 24, 2026
Marriage, Family, and the Intellectual Life: Interview with John and Katelyn Shelton
Katelyn Walls Shelton
The intellectual life is in some ways necessarily lonely–in his book on The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits, Conditions, Methods, the French…
Articles, Interviews
Mere Orthodoxy / February 20, 2026
The Pill Revolt — Why Millennial Women Like Me Are Rethinking Hormonal Birth Control
Katelyn Walls Shelton
The rising anti-birth control push isn’t because of misinformation.
Articles
Daily Wire / February 19, 2026