Application Deadline for Spring 2008 Semester is January 2, 2008 Americans United for Life (AUL), a national public interest law and policy organization defending human life through vigorous legislative, judicial, and educational efforts, seeks highly-qualified and motivated law students to serve as legal externs during the Spring 2008 semester. The externships are unpaid and may […]
Attempts to Remove Federal Funding of Planned Parenthood
Last week, Senator Brownback sent a letter to the appropriations committees in the House and Senate requesting the suspension of federal funding of Planned Parenthood. The request comes in the wake of a 107 count complaint filed in Johnson County, Kansas, accusing Planned Parenthood of performing late-term abortions in violation of Kansas law. The letter […]
AUL Co-Sponsoring Bioethics Conference
Extending Life: Setting the Agenda for the Ethics of Aging, Death, and Immortality – A Conference, Institutes, and Seminars on bioethics Institutes – March 3-6, 2008 Conference – March 6-8, 2008 Featuring: Plenary Speakers Informal Networking Public Debate Special Keynote Dinner The conference will equip participants to: Understand the clinical and social experience of aging, […]
Americans United for Life Honorary Chairman Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
For immediate release . . . Chicago, Illinois – November 5: President Bush today awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to the Honorable Henry J. Hyde, retired congressman and Honorary Chairman of Americans United for Life (AUL). In presenting the award President Bush said of Hyde, “He was a gallant […]
Call for Applicants: 2008 AUL Legal Fellowship Program
About the AUL Legal Fellowship Program The AUL Summer Fellowship Program combines top flight legal work with public interest commitment. Each fellow will be mentored by an AUL attorney who will regularly meet with the fellow to answer questions, give feedback on work performance, and help further augment the value of their experience. The fellowship […]
Imagining a Future Museum Exhibition on Abortion
In a thoughtful column in Britain’s Telegraph, a visitor to a Museum of London gallery on “London, Sugar, and Slavery” imagines what a future museum gallery might be like: It is not hard to imagine how a future Museum of London exhibition about abortion could go. It could buy up a 20th-century hospital building as […]
International Perspectives on Life Issues
MercatorNet is an excellent online publication from Australia that covers a variety of topics. In the past week they’ve had a trio of worthy articles on life issues. Shameful anniversary, sham inquiry. Forty years ago Britain passed a law that has facilitated 6.7 million abortions. A government inquiry has seen to it that nothing will […]
AUL Signs Letter to Congress RE: Planned Parenthood
AUL joined 59 other pro-life organizations in sending a letter to all members of congress yesterday, with the following request: In light of recent revelations of Planned Parenthood’s alleged systematic violation of state laws in Kansas, the undersigned organizations request the immediate suspension of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding until it can be determined whether the […]
Washington Briefing Wrap Up
We had a great time at FRC’s Washington Briefing, and I just can’t thank Joe Carter, Jared Bridges, Charmaine Yoest and everyone else at FRC who worked so hard to make the New Media Row such a success. So many bloggers, podcasters, and video podcasters showed up that they had to bring out more tables […]
Why be Pro-Life?
This is the question National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg addresses in his Tribune Media Services column today. While science provides plenty of information about when life begins, Goldberg and many many others take the position that “I don’t know if life begins at conception. I don’t really know what ‘life’ means.” He goes on to […]
AUL Sponsoring New Media at FRC’s Washington Briefing
AUL is sponsoring New Media at the Family Research Council’s Washington Briefing. Here’s the list of official bloggers that will be on New Media Row: David All – TechPresident Marc Ambinder — The Atlantic Nathan Bradfield — Church and State Soren Dayton — eye0n08.com Erick Erickson — RedState Matthew Eppinette — Americans United for Life […]
MO Cloning Battle Heats Up Again
Cathy Ruse of Family Research Council weighs in at NRO on the latest in the battle over cloning in Missouri: Missouri Manipulation — Don’t get conned on cloning.
Book Review: Democrats for Life
My good friend Joe Carter provides a 60 second review of Kristen Day’s Democrats for Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority. Joe concludes: Pro-life Democrats should read this book to learn how their party lost its moral footing on the issue of abortion; pro-life Republicans should read it as a cautionary tale of what […]
The Right Judicial Litmus Test
Monday’s Wall Street Journal carried an outstanding opinion piece (subscription required, unfortunately) by Steven Calabresi, who is a professor of law at Northwestern and a cofounder of the Federalist Society. As the Supreme Court starts its new session, Calabresi weighs in on the best way to evaluate the Court’s work. The proper basis on which […]
Hadley Arkes coming to Valparaiso University
From Valparaiso University Students for Life: On Saturday, November 3, Professor Hadley Arkes from Amherst College in MA will be speaking at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN as part of VU Students for Life’s fall speaker series. Professor Arkes is a very well-known and well-respected author, speaker, and professor in the field of law and […]
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals: Clinic Need Not Tell Parents about So-Called Emergency Contraception
The 3d Circuit’s decision on September 21 in Anspach v. City of Philadelphia is a tragic and unfortunate ruling that further undermines parental rights to consent to the health care of their children. The traditional rule, in virtually all 50 states, is that no doctor can touch a child without parental CONSENT (not just NOTICE), […]
