A year after his dramatic flight to the US, Chen Guangcheng is at the centre of a tussle between pro-life campaigners and human rights lawyers who both want the blind Chinese legal activist to represent their cause.
Mr Chen, who made his name defending Chinese women forced into abortions, has received a three-year offer to work at the Witherspoon Institute, a pro-life think-tank. The institute drew controversy last year for funding a study suggesting children of homosexual parents were at a disadvantage.
He is currently a fellow at New York University’s law school, but is also in negotiations to become a visiting scholar at the Leitner Center, a human rights programme at New York’s Fordham School of Law.
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