Shel Lyons, J.D., Harvard Law School, is the founder and president of the Mothers' Rights Network. She also serves on the Grassroots Advocates Committee for the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, where she is the Legal Committee Chair for The Birth Survey and the Consumer Council Representative for the National Quality Forum. Since earning her degree from Harvard Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice. She currently focuses on the intersection of gender and health law, including birth and breastfeeding rights, and is a guest author on Change.org's women's rights blog.
Childbirth activists must find common ground with fellow reproductive rights activists, and feel comfortable discussing abortion in order to ensure that birth rights are respected and valued as well.
