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.

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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.

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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

They mean what they say

Katelyn Walls Shelton

The vice president and second lady lead by example in expecting a fourth child

Articles

WORLD Opinions / February 5, 2026

Know a pregnant woman in need?

Katelyn Walls Shelton

Here’s a guide to some of the many resources that can help

Articles

WORLD Opinions / January 23, 2026