Paige C. Cunningham

Senior Fellow

Paige Comstock Cunningham, Esq. is an attorney and educator. Over the past twenty years, she has worked in both private practice and at a public interest law and education organization. She is a member of the board of directors of Americans United for Life (the oldest national pro-life organization in the country) and was chairman for five years.  She is a Senior Fellow of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, and a Fellow with the Wilberforce Forum's Council on Biotechnology Policy.  Cunningham also serves on the Board of Trustees of Taylor University and the National Advisory Council of Wheaton College's Center for Applied Christian Ethics.

Cunningham served at Americans United for Life (AUL) in various other capacities (including president, associate general counsel for legislation, and executive director/general counsel) for more than twenty years.  While serving AUL as associate general counsel, Cunningham was instrumental in developing post-Webster protective state legislation. As president, she testified twice before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Cunningham was the pre-law advisor and adjunct instructor at Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) for three years and currently serves on the adjunct faculty at Trinity Law School (Santa Ana, California).  She is co-editor of The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family (Eerdmans 2000) and Abortion and the Constitution (Georgetown University Press, 1999). She also co-authored four booklets in the BioBasics Series (Kregel 1998) and has written numerous other articles on abortion, the law, and bioethics. In addition, Cunningham co-authored the amicus brief that Justice O'Connor cited in her discussion of viability in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

Cunningham was born in Brazil and raised in Latin America. She received her bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude from Taylor University and is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she served on the editorial board of the Northwestern University Law Review. Among the awards she has received are Taylor University's Alumna of the Year Award and the American Bar Association's Young Lawyer's Division Award for the top 20 lawyers making a difference in the world.   She is currently completing her MA in Bioethics from Trinity International University.

Cunningham lives in Mount Zion, Illinois, with her husband Jay and three children.