“At every turn, the abortion industry fights health and safety standards that offer real protection to women, going to court to keep profits high and standards low,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (02-03-16) – Americans United for Life, the nation’s leading advocate of protecting women’s health through commonsense legislation, filed an amicus curie […]
New Number One State Tops AUL’s “Life List” for Protecting Mothers and Infants from Abortion Industry Abuses
Americans United for Life Releases 11th Edition of Defending Life to Equip Legislators in 2016 Session, Predicts Trends (Click to enlarge) WASHINGTON, D.C. (01-12-16) – This year’s prestigious Americans United for Life’s “Life List” a ranking of the 50 states based on how well they protect life in law has a new number one, announced […]
AUL Commends Second House Vote to Free Taxpayers from Forced Funding of Abortion Business
“The nation’s largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood makes 43 percent of its $1.3 billion budget from beleaguered taxpayers,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. “It’s time to redirect the money to true healthcare needs for women and children.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (01-06-16) – Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest commended the U.S. House […]
Video: Clarke Forsythe on C-Span
Clarke Forsythe and Melissa Murray talked about the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, in which the court ruled 7-2 that women have a constitutional, but not absolute, right to terminate pregnancy based on the determined viability of the fetus. Click here to watch the video.
We did it! Taxes Redirected from Abortion!
You may not have believed this possible, but this week a truly important vote took place that redirected tax dollars from the abortion industry to other important needs. The vote took place in the U.S. Senate, reflecting the pro-life momentum sweeping the nation. The Senate voted 52-47 to repeal key provisions of the anti-life Obamacare […]
Texas Again Could Change Law of the Land on Abortion, says AUL, as Health and Safety Standards Take Center Stage
“From Roe v. Wade to today’s case, Texas again could be pivotal in changing the law of the land on abortion, as much needed health and safety standards are debated following evidence of abortion industry profiteering at women’s expense,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (11-13-15) – Americans United for Life President and CEO […]
AUL says 11th CMP Video Again Reveals Potentially Illegal Acts at Planned Parenthood
“In the 11th Center for Medical Progress video, the macabre culture of Planned Parenthood is again on full display,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-27-15) – In the 11th undercover video released today by the Center for Medical Progress, “the macabre culture of Planned Parenthood is again on full display,” noted Americans United […]
AUL Calls Hearing on Planned Parenthood’s Medical Ethics “A Necessity to Examine an Industry that Harms Both Women and Their Unborn Children”
“It is something of an oxymoron to talk about the medical ethics of abortionists as they fight health and safety standards nationwide,” noted AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. “Abortion harms women, and today’s hearing is one of many needed to help people understand Abortion, Inc., in America.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (10-08-15) — As a fourth Congressional Committee […]
AUL Debunks Abortion Industry Falsehoods About a Simple Fact: Planned Parenthood Doing More Abortions and Fewer Health Screenings
Article in The Federalist details the facts behind an exchange between Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz about an AUL Infographic during a hearing this week WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-30-15) — During a sometimes-contentious hearing before a congressional committee this week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards faced an unusual reality for her […]
AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest: “Cecile Richards Must Answer for her Gruesome Expertise in Monetizing the End of an Unborn Infant’s Life”
And, AULA says vote for Federal Women’s Health and Safety Act Frees Taxpayers from Funding a Scandal-Ridden Abortion Industry Profiting from “Death and Dismemberment” “Cecile Richards must answer for her inhumane business model and detail what she is doing with millions in taxpayer dollars. Monetizing the end of an infant’s unborn life is her gruesome […]
AUL Action Calls Senate Vote to Limit Abortion at 5 months of Pregnancy “A Win and a Loss as militant abortion extremists blocked protections for women and their unborn children”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-22-15) — “Despite the fact that the 54 to 42 vote today in the U.S. Senate looks like a victory, tragically without a veto proof margin, women and their unborn children will continue to face the dangers of late-term abortions at the hands of an abortion industry that clearly puts profit over people,” […]
AUL Action Joins U.S. Senate Leaders Calling for a 5-Month Abortion Limit
Media Advisory: AULA’s General Counsel Ovide Lamontagne joins U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and other pro-life leaders at 9:45 a.m. eastern news conference at the Capitol Visitors Center, room SVC 215 in advance of the Senate vote on The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-22-15) — In advance of a vote later […]
Reaction Statement of AUL’s President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest to Two Pro-Life Victories in the House
sells the broken bodies of unborn infants,” said AUL’s Dr. Yoest. “It’s time to defund Planned Parenthood and redirect those funds to true, healthcare facilities for women.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-18-15) — Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest commended the members of the U.S. House for two, historic, pro-life votes to both […]
AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest Tells Congress Undercover videos Reveal “evidence of corporate-wide corruption at Planned Parenthood”
Testifies in support of criminal penalties in Born-Alive Infant Protection Act so that babies born alive after abortion will receive humane care. Calls for support of two measures moving forward in the U.S. House WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-17-15) — “For too long, Planned Parenthood – the nation’s number one abortionist federation – has operated secretively and […]
AUL Calls for Stronger Legal Protections for Those who Survive Abortions Following Release of New Video Showing Planned Parenthood Top Officials Coordinating Infant Body Part Trafficking
MEDIA ALERT: Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest to testify Thursday before Congress regarding taxpayer support for the nation’s number one abortionist federation, Planned Parenthood. And Tune In Today to CNN at 2:10 p.m. Eastern to see Dr. Yoest discuss Presidential Politics. WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-15-15) — “In its latest undercover video, […]
Americans United for Life to Call for Stronger Laws Protecting Infants Born During Abortions at 2nd #WomenBetrayed Rally
MEDIA ADVISORY: AUL Attorney Evangeline Bartz to join national organizations, presidential candidates and pro-life advocates for noon event at the U.S. Capitol building, illustrating how women have been harmed by the nation’s number one abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. AND, tune in to EWTN Nightly News at 6 p.m. eastern to watch Bartz discuss the event […]
AUL Calls on House Judiciary to Examine Barbaric Late-Term Abortions and Their Health Risks to Women in Hearing Today
“Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards claims to see no evil and hear no evil and that her employees and vendors speak no evil in the Center for Medical Progress videos revealing trafficking in infant body parts, but that willful blindness changes nothing,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-09-15) — As a hearing in the […]
Americans United for Life Calls for Criminal Penalties to be Added to National Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, in Light of Horrific Planned Parenthood Videos
“As the Wall Street Journal first reported, ‘Dueling Assessments of Planned Parenthood Videos’ shows that pressing questions must be investigated by Congress, as half-a-billion taxpayer dollars go to the nation’s number one abortionist federation each year,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (09-01-15) — “Today’s video from the Center for Medical Progress again illustrates […]
AUL Attorneys Detail Possible Violations of Federal Laws for Congressional Committees and Leadership Investigating Planned Parenthood, Calls for Congressional Hearings
“The shocking undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood abortionists and associates sipping wine while discussing money to be made from infant bodies, butchered and sold for parts, may represent broad-based corporate corruption coordinated at the national level,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (08-27-15) — Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest […]
Listen: Dr. Charmaine Yoest on NPR to Discuss #PPSellsBabyParts Scandal
On August 11, 2015, Tom Ashbrook welcomed Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, pro-abortion writer Katha Pollitt, and Julie Rovner, senior health correspondent for Kaiser Health News onto his show to discuss the undercover videos from The Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts.
Americans United for Life says 7th Planned Parenthood Undercover Video Reveals the Horrific ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ of Its Gruesome Infant Organ Trafficking
“The beating heart of an aborted infant seems like an image from Edgar Allen Poe’s horror story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ but in truth, it’s Cecile Richards’ inhumane profiteering displayed in living color,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (08-19-15) — As horrific depictions in a seventh undercover Planned Parenthood video, released by the Center […]
AUL says Fifth Planned Parenthood Video Reveals Again the Depth of Depravity within the Nation’s Number One Abortion Business
“In the light of day, Planned Parenthood’s embrace of profiting from a culture of infant death paints a video picture worth a thousand words and not worth half-a-billion in taxpayer dollars. It’s time to investigate the potentially illegal acts, including possible infanticide evidenced in this latest video, taking place behind the closed doors of Planned […]
Senate Fails to Defund Planned Parenthood
“Politicians who insist on handing over half a billion dollars in scarce taxpayer resources to Planned Parenthood will find that the American taxpayer — and American voter — will hold them accountable for horrific judgment. The outrage of the American people who have been shocked by gruesome images of Planned Parenthood abortionists picking through the […]
Americans United for Life Action Calls on Senate to Prohibit Federal Funding of Scandal-Ridden Planned Parenthood
“AUL Action has long called on Congress to disentangle the American taxpayer from Big Abortion,” said Dr. Yoest. “Half-a-Billion dollars each year fattens the coffers of the profiteering abortion industry leader Planned Parenthood. That money can be directed to true healthcare.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (08-03-15) – Americans United for Life Action President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest […]
