Laura Riley is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and Press and Public Policy Manager at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a not-for-profit sexual and reproductive healthcare provider. She was formerly Director of PET (a post now held by Sarah Norcross), and she is a member of the International Federation of Professional Abortion and Contraception Associates. She has an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College London, and before working in health policy she researched TV documentaries for the BBC's Science and Religion and Ethics departments. She has contributed a chapter to Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and she is coauthor of a chapter in Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).