Today AUL and 57 Oklahoma state legislators filed an amicus brief before the Oklahoma Supreme Court supporting the state’s regulation of abortion-inducing drugs. In 2011, the Oklahoma legislature enacted a measure regulating the provision of abortion-inducing drugs. The language is based on AUL’s “Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act,” which requires that abortion providers administer the dangerous […]
Sixth Circuit Upholds RU-486 Law
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Planned Parenthood’s challenge to a 2004 Ohio law regulating the abortion drug RU-486. In Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio v. DeWine, the court ruled that the Ohio law is not vague and does not impose an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions. Rather than “using as directed,” the […]
What Don’t You Know About Planned Parenthood?
As Planned Parenthood prepares to celebrate its 96th birthday in October, Americans United for Life launches a month-long series of revelations – the release of “The Planned Parenthood Exhibits,” the continuing case for investigating the nation’s largest abortion provider. Each day in the month of October, AUL will release a new backgrounder that highlights grounds for investigating and, ultimately, de-funding Planned Parenthood, which receives more than one million dollars a day in taxpayer subsidies.
AUL Goes to Court in Four Key Amicus Curiae Brief Filings in October
WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-01-12) – Americans United for Life’s premier legal team will file four, strategic amicus curiae briefs in October, making the case that women’s lives and our First Amendment freedoms deserve greater protection under the law. “For more than 40 years, AUL has been defending vulnerable unborn children and their mothers in strategic court […]
Protecting Human Life in Poland
The struggle to protect human life is hardly restricted to the United States. Earlier this week, I spoke to a conference in Warsaw, Poland, concerned with, as the title of the conference noted, the “Intellectual and Legal Means for the Protection of Human Life Before Birth – Comparative Perspectives.” The conference drew speakers and attendees […]
VIDEO: AUL’s Saunders speaks to conference in Poland
AUL’s Vice President of Legal Affairs William Saunders speaks remotely to a conference – “Intellectual and Legal Means for the Protection of Human Life Before Birth – Comparative Perspectives” in September 2012. The conference was in Warsaw, Poland.
AUL’s Maxon to speak at CareNet Manasota Gala
AUL’s Vice President of External Affairs Jeanneane Maxon will speak at the United for Life Gala tonight in Florida. The event is sponsored by CareNet Manasota. The event starts at 6 p.m at the Fete Ballroom, Polo Grill in Lakewood Ranch. More details can be found here.
LifeNews on important victory for pharmacists’ conscience rights in Illinois
Mailee Smith & William Saunders at LifeNews: Illinois pharmacists that Americans United for Life (AUL) and AUL Advisory Board Member Mark Rienzi have worked with for more than 7 years won an important victory last week, in a ruling that helps to protect conscience rights. The Appellate Court of Illinois for the Fourth District ruled […]
AUL’s Burke at NRO on Arizona’s Late-Term Abortion Ban
Denise Burke at National Review Online Despite all Democratic party hype about the “war on women,” the abortion industry’s house of cards is collapsing. Arguments used to justify the current regime of abortion-on-demand are routinely discredited and state legislators, with the help of groups like Americans United for Life, are passing scores of new laws […]
AUL’s Daniel McConchie on Abortion and the Democratic Party
AUL’s Vice President of Government Affairs Daniel McConchie recently published an op-ed in The Daily Caller on how the Democratic Party’s abortion mantra is out of step with a majority of Americans: Since then, a glass ceiling has emerged. Anti-abortion Democrats have become an endangered species on Capitol Hill as well as in governors’ offices […]
A Victory for Women’s Health and Safety in Virginia
In a decisive victory for women’s health and safety, the Virginia Board of Health voted overwhelmingly on September 14 to uphold commonsense abortion clinic regulations to protect women undergoing abortions. By a vote of 13-2, the Board voted in favor of permanent regulations that apply medical building code standards to all abortion facilities. This vote […]
Salon quotes AUL’s Yoest
From Salon: This, and in particular, Dolan’s prayer for protecting “those waiting to be born,” thrilled antiabortion activists. “This was a moment in history. So proud and inspired to witness #truthtopower,” tweeted Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest. The original tweet: This was a moment in history. So proud and inspired to witness. #truthtopower […]
Saunders and Harned at LifeNews on Stupak
From a blog post by William Saunders and Mary Harned at LifeNews: It is tragically evident that Mr. Stupak and Ms. Dahlkemper misplaced their trust. In spite of Ms. Dahlkemper’s hopeful statement from late last year, the President and his administration have not issued new or amended regulations to protect the conscience rights of all […]
Yoest in Washington Post on 2012
From The Washington Post “We have repeatedly said that Obamacare is the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, and that’s not hyperbole,” said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life. “By integrating abortion into health-care reform, it was just a seismic kind of shift. That’s why we’ve really mobilized people to understand […]
Stupak admits HHS Mandate is illegal
UPDATE: Read more in a LifeNews blog post from Mary Harned and William Saunders of AUL. Writing at Breitbart.com, Tabitha Hale discusses a Democrats for Life event Tuesday Stupak responded, “I am perplexed and disappointed that, having negotiated the Executive Order with the President, not only does the HHS mandate violate the Executive Order but […]
Forsythe in Christian Post on link between abortion and increased risk of pre-term birth
From Christian Post: Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel at Americans United for Life, told The Christian Post that this study was important for it added to many other studies that had similar results. “I think this new study is important, not because it alone will shift the debate, but because it adds to a growing body […]
