Rebecca Todd Peters is a feminist and Christian social ethicist who serves as a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University.
Peters' scholarship focuses on questions related to economics, the environmental crisis, globalization, poverty, and women's access to abortion.
[1] She was also ordained as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and worked in the PCUSA national office of Women's Ministries for six years.
[2] Peters is the past President of the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Region, and was Elon University's 2011–12 Distinguished Scholar.
"[6] Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has said: “In Trust Women, Rebecca Todd Peters lays bare the real question underlying the abortion debate: whether or not women can be trusted to make their own decisions.