Dr Rosie McNee is a Public Health Consultant in Scotland and has worked with the Scottish Government on abortion, contraception and young people's sexual wellbeing. She is the author of widely cited research on changes in women's contraceptive use at the time of abortion in the UK, and a member of the Faculty of Public Health's Special Interest Groups on Health of Women and Girls and Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Clare Murphy is an experienced women's health advocate who has successfully campaigned for changes to law and policy to improve women's rights in pregnancy and their access to contraception and abortion. Formerly chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), she is now a Senior Research Fellow on the Wellcome-funded Contragestive Time project, a major programme exploring new methods of fertility control which challenge the divide between contraception and abortion.