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Americans United for Life

Americans United for Life advances the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.

Join with us as we advance the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.

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Follow Advocates for Life for news, scholarship, and opinion and reports from the front lines at the White House, Congress, and from state capitols across America.

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Our mission is to advance the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.

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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. 

Americans overwhelmingly favor protecting the lives of children at 28 weeks

Pro-Choice Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Late-Term Abortion, Now Permitted in New York and elsewhere

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. We advocate a return to common sense politics on the human right to life.

Life, Liberty, and Law

Conversations on the Human Right to Life

Americans United for Life brings you “Life, Liberty, and Law,” a weekly podcast featuring conversations on the human right to life. Listen, subscribe, and rate the show today.

Erika Bachiochi on Amy Coney Barrett, ‘capitalistic’ ways of treating human beings, and true rights – Life, Liberty, and Law

Erika Bachiochi joins Tom Shakely and Noah Brandt to reflect on Amy Coney Barrett as a new feminist icon, the problems with "capitalistic" ways of treating human beings, and recovering a sense of true rights and relationships. Erika also previews her forthcoming book, “The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision”. Erika is a Fellow with the Ethics & Public Policy Center and a legal scholar specializing in equal protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. Erika is also a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA, where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project. What I will teach my children about Ruth Bader Ginsburg https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/09/24/ruth-bader-ginsburg-abortion-equality-14th-amendment Amy Coney Barrett: A New Feminist Icon https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/27/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-nominee-feminist-icon-422059 Erika Bachiochi on Twitter https://twitter.com/erikabachiochi
  1. Erika Bachiochi on Amy Coney Barrett, ‘capitalistic’ ways of treating human beings, and true rights
  2. Jack Gorby on the early days of Americans United for Life, Roe v. Wade and strategies to advance human rights, and the future
  3. Katie Glenn on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings and what comes next
  4. Abby Johnson on Planned Parenthood, the reality of America's abortion businesses, and a culture of hope
  5. Benjamin Watson on 'Divided Hearts of America' and the work of building a culture of life
  6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Coney Barrett, and the 'best mom' for the U.S. Supreme Court
  7. Alfonso Aguilar on American ideals, the human right to life in the Latino community, and the future
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“I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it’s always a tragedy, and I think that it should be rare and … I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions. There ought to be able to have a common ground and consensus as to do that.” —Sen. Joe Biden, 2006