Mary Ann Glendon

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President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient Mary Ann Glendon.

Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) J.D., LL.M., is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, at Harvard University Law School. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law and human rights in international law. She is a notable Pro-life feminist.

She was appointed by President Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is also the author of Rights Talk; A Nation Under Lawyers, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The National Law Journal named Glendon one of the "Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" in 1998.

In 1995 she was the official Vatican representative to the international 1995 Beijing Conference on Women sponsored by the United Nations where she was contested for the anti-condom declarations about HIV: The Holy See in no way endorses contraception or the use of condoms, either as a family planning measure or in HIV/AIDS prevention programmes..

A divorced and remarried Catholic herself, Glendon is currently the first female President of the Roman Catholic Church's official Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, appointed by Pope John Paul II on 19 January 1994.

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"What is clearly 'old-fashioned' today is the old feminism of the 1970s -- with its negative attitudes toward men, marriage and motherhood, and its rigid party line on abortion and gay rights."

She has been mentioned as among the possible Bush Supreme Court candidates.