What’s At Stake: States’ Ability to Protect Health and Safety of Women in Abortion Clinics from Dangerous Conditions and Practitioners “Consistently, the abortion industry invests in lawyers to avoid investing in safeguards designed to protect women from dangerous conditions and substandard providers found behind the closed doors of abortion clinics,” said AUL’s Clarke Forsythe. WASHINGTON, […]
AUL Files Briefs Supporting Texas and Mississippi Abortion Laws
Americans United for Life (AUL) filed briefs today in two important abortion cases now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Each case involves recently enacted laws designed to protect women from the dangers inherent in America’s largely unregulated, unrestricted, and unrepentant abortion industry. Texas case: Planned Parenthood v. Abbott AUL filed an amicus curiae […]
AUL Calls Gosnell Murder Conviction “a triumph of justice over the reality of infanticide – the logical conclusion of the abortion worldview”
“In the Gosnell case, we’ve seen proof positive that the abortion industry operates as the red-light district of medicine, preying on the vulnerable and repeatedly victimizing the very women it claims to protect,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. WASHINGTON, D.C. (05-13-13) — “The self-interested indifference of an unrepentant, unregulated, and unmonitored abortion industry stood front […]
Video: Dr. Charmaine Yoest on FOX News
Dr. Charmaine Yoest recently appeared on FOX News to discuss Kermit Gosnell and abortion clinic regulations.
AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest Says “Big Abortion Keeps Abortionists Like ‘House of Horrors’ Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Business by Fighting Commonsense Regulations”
The consequences of ignoring the harm that can come from unregulated abortion clinics are appalling,” said AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest. “Abortion clinics should be regulated like the medical facilities they claim to be, and be required to provide humane medical care to newly born children.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (05-01-13) – Americans United for Life President and […]
Defending the Indefensible: Closing Arguments in the Gosnell Trial
Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for Kermit Gosnell, is a friendly guy. Before the trial began, he chit-chatted with pro-lifers in the gallery. He couldn’t discuss the case, of course, but he shared funny stories and talked golf. He seemed like a nice man. Only he knows his motives for taking this case. Maybe he’s […]
In the Shadow of Gosnell Horrors, Abortion Advocates Continue to Lobby Against Clinic Regulations in Virginia
Last Friday, Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups were in Richmond, Virginia lobbying against health and safety regulations for abortion clinics being considered (and now passed) by the Virginia Board of Health. The statements and behavior of the regulation’s opponents prove that they are, in fact, the antithesis of the “women’s advocates” they claim […]
What Did Barack Obama Promise Planned Parenthood?
Last year before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Barack Obama told pro-abortion activists: “The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” With a single stroke of the pen, Barack Obama would wipe away virtually every state law on abortion nationwide. Instantly, it will undo thirty-seven years of legal work, […]
We Are All Called to Fight Abortion
In the May issue of Christianity Today, Stan Guthrie addresses those who wish to “move on” from abortion, telling them, “We’re Not Finished.” In other words, these [Jim Wallis, Ron Sider] and other voices seem to be saying that fighting legalized abortion—the deliberate, state-sanctioned taking of 50 million unborn human lives from their mothers’ wombs […]
Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Former AG Paul Morrison’s Letter Clearing Planned Parenthood
In an unexpected move by the Kansas Supreme Court today, several formerly-sealed documents in the cases involving Planned Parenthood and Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline were unsealed. Importantly, that Court rejected Former Attorney General Paul Morrison’s letter clearing Planned Parenthood of any wrong-doing. In fact, the unsealed documents prove that Morrison tried to return […]
Gonzales v. Carhart: One Year Later
Gonzales v. Carhart: One Year Later Letting the People Decide By Denise M. Burke Vice President & Legal Director, Americans United for Life One year ago, the public debate over abortion was irrevocably altered. In the landmark Gonzales v. Carhart decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and, more importantly, […]
NY Parental Rights Group Releases TV Commercial against the NY FOCA
New Yorkers for Parental Rights (NYPR) (http://www.nyfpr.com/) have been spearheading the efforts in opposition to ex-Governor Spitzer’s radical abortion bill, “The Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act” (RHAPP), also known as the NY “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). The group has posted anti-RHAPP billboards on 14 major roadways around the State of NY, and released […]
AUL Applauds Defeat of Maryland Anti-CPC Legislation
Americans United for Life applauds the defeat of Maryland House Bill 690 and Senate Bill 1146, virulent and baseless attacks on pregnancy resource centers instigated by the local chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America. AUL worked alongside officials at Care Net, a leading trade group of pregnancy centers, and a coalition of centers, former clients, medical […]
Senate to Consider Competing Abortion Bills
In what is shaping up to be a pivotal and unpredictable election year, abortion and its negative impact on women have only infrequently been mentioned as important issues in the Presidential campaign. However, they remain critical and divisive issues in Congress where competing bills were recently introduced. On April 2, Senators David Vitter (R-LA), George […]
Spitzer’s Dangerous and Radical Abortion Bill Would Give New York State the Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Policy in the Nation
Former Governor Eliot Spitzer has introduced an extreme abortion bill, the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP), into the New York State Legislature. This bill will do anything but make abortions rare and safe in New York. On the contrary, the RHAPP will increase the number of abortions performed in New York and wipe […]
Will Spitzer’s Resignation Kill NY RHAPP Act?
As most people are now aware, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught trafficking in prostitution across state lines. This morning’s news reports indicate that he will step down effective Monday. What does this mean for the Reproductive Health and Personal Privacy Act (RHAPP) – the radical pro-abortion bill currently pending before the New York […]
