In 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Texas’s health and safety standards for abortion facilities, the Court indicated that such protections could be constitutional … if only there was sufficient evidence of the need for such protections. Americans United for Life responds with the evidence proving that even where abortion is permitted by law, it remains unsafe.
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Defending Life: America’s ‘Pro-Life Playbook’ for State Law
Discover where your state stands with respect to human life.
Defending Life, our premier annual publication, paints the nation’s only comprehensive portrait of state law from abortion to suicide by physician to patient protection laws. Our included model legislation serves as a basis for more life-affirming law in every state.
Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, testifies to the U.S. House on abortion and family planning services
“Abortion can never be considered a form of family planning, because thriving families are characterized by their living members and the life they share in common. What defines a successful abortion is a dead member of the human family. There is no way around this reality.”
Americans overwhelmingly reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s late-term abortion and infanticide law
Pro-Choice Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Late-Term Abortion, Now Permitted in New York
Americans United for Life, in partnership with YouGov, conducted a national survey revealing that two in three self-identified “pro-choice” Americans oppose abortion in the third trimester.
