Steven H. Aden
Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel
Steven H. Aden serves as Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel at Americans United for Life, leading a policy team that, according to USA Today, has written “the bulk of” all state pro-life laws, and which also leads efforts in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, defend the Hyde Amendment, and enact legal protections for mothers and infants in the womb.
Aden wrote the initial Mississippi 15-week bill that led to Roe v. Wade’s overturn in the Dobbs case, and he wrote pro-life legislation that resulted in legislation defunding the abortion industry in over ten states. Aden is also a highly experienced litigator, having appeared in court against Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry dozens of times and having been appointed by six states to defend pro-life laws. Aden secured court victories that upheld an Arizona law that resulted in six abortion businesses ceasing to offer abortion, applied Missouri’s abortion laws to chemical abortion and upheld the right of Louisiana regulators to shut down dangerous abortion facilities.
A prolific scholar and analyst on sanctity of life issues and constitutional jurisprudence, Aden is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and Virginia, and is a member of the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal circuit and district courts. He has practiced law since 1990 and earned his law degree with honors from Georgetown University Law Center.
