WASHINGTON, DC— Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, will testified before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate in opposition to the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act. Below is an excerpt of the message Catherine Glenn Foster has for the U.S. Senate: The Women’s Health Protection Act would effectively ban […]
A generational opportunity to uphold life-saving protections, as U.S. Supreme Court considers Mississippi abortion case
WASHINGTON, DC— Americans United for Life is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided today to hear Mississippi’s appeal to defend state law protecting the human right to life at 15 weeks. Mississippi’s House Bill 1510, passed in 2018, preserves the human right to life and limits abortion when “the probable gestational age of the unborn human […]
Supreme Court Should Affirm that Preborn Children with Down’s Syndrome Deserve Protection
WASHINGTON, DC— Americans United for Life filed a friend-of-the-Court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the Justices to grant review of an Arkansas law that protects persons in the womb with Down’s syndrome from being targeted for abortion. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the law unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade, saying that […]
Americans United for Life Files Brief in Defense of Parental Consent Laws
WASHINGTON, DC— Americans United for Life (AUL) filed a friend of the court brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court in Box v. Planned Parenthood, one of three pending abortion cases, urging the Court to hear and uphold Indiana’s parental notice of abortion law in the Fall. A peer-reviewed statistical study published in the American Journal […]
Sixth Circuit Affirms Ohio’s Legal Protection for Down’s Syndrome Babies
WASHINGTON, DC—Americans United for Life heartily applauds the decision of the en banc Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today that affirms the constitutionality of Ohio’s H.B. 214, which prevents abortionists from taking an infant’s life if he or she knows that the abortion is sought for discriminatory reasons. By a 9-7 decision of the full […]
FDA Will Endanger Women by No Longer Enforcing the “In-Person Dispensing Requirement” for Chemical Abortion
WASHINGTON, DC— Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life, issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administrations decision to remove key medical oversight of chemical abortion: Monday’s announcement that the FDA will no longer enforce the “in-person dispensing requirement,” a rule that has been in place for over twenty years, for the remainder of […]
Abortion Absolutist Xavier Becerra Confirmed as Secretary of HHS
WASHINGTON, DC— Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, issued the following statement regarding the confirmation of Xavier Becerra for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: America expected more from President Biden because he promised us more. The confirmation of Becerra to lead the Department of […]
President Biden Signs Huge Expansion of Taxpayer Funded Abortion Into Law
WASHINGTON, DC— Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life, released the following comment regarding President Biden signing the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 economic relief package. President Joe Biden is leading the most extreme pro-abortion agenda our nation has ever seen. The partisan COVID-19 bill he signed today is a gift to the abortion industry. This bill adds $50 million to the Title X […]
Americans United for Life Files Brief in Support of 1st Amendment Champion David Daleiden
WASHINGTON, DC— Americans United for Life has filed a friend-of-the-court brief today on behalf of 1st Amendment champion David Daleiden in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, said: David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress are champions for the First Amendment and heroes of modern-day journalism. The CMP investigations were ambitious, effective, and informative; those are standards which we should expect […]
Americans United for Life Joins Brief to Protect Pro-Life Americans
WASHINGTON, DC— Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, released the following statement regarding the friend-of-the-court brief filed in Americans for Prosperity v. Becerra that AUL joined in support: Americans United for Life implores the Supreme Court to recognize the First Amendment freedom of assembly rights guaranteed for all Americans as they consider […]
Americans United for Life Joins Brief to Protect Infants in El Salvador
WASHINGTON, DC— Americans United for Life joined a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, against a coalition of abortion-rights groups that are demanding that the international body force El Salvador to abandon its duty to prosecute infanticide. In re Manuela is a lawsuit filed against El Salvador […]
Supreme Court To Hear Case on Abortion and Title X
WASHINGTON, DC— On Monday, February 22nd, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari to three cases challenging the Trump administration’s Title X rule. The cases will be consolidated for oral arguments and are listed as American Medical Association v. Cochran. At issue are regulations promulgated during the Trump administration which clarified Congress’ intent that […]
“Unsafe”: Shocking 50-State Investigative Report Documents Chronic Abuse and Neglect in Abortion Industry
“Unsafe: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women,” tells the story of how the abortion industry bet everything on a strategy of total repeal of the nation’s abortion laws, believing against the evidence that abortion would be safe if it were just made legal. America’s women lost that bet—big time—when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down abortion laws in […]
Americans United for Life Congratulates President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON, DC— Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, released the following statement congratulating President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris on their inauguration: Americans United for Life congratulates President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as they are sworn into office. We sincerely hope that President Biden and Vice President […]
Supreme Court Shuts Down Abortion Drugs by Mail
WASHINGTON, DC— The Supreme Court granted the government’s request to reinstate FDA rules protecting the health and safety of women seeking chemical abortion pills. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of abortion doctors sued the FDA in an attempt to send abortion pills by mail without seeing patients in person. One district judge […]
Starting with Community, Family, and the Preservation of Human Life
WASHINGTON, DC— Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, released the following comment regarding the violence surrounding the certification of the Electoral College vote: The political violence witnessed today at our nation’s Capitol underscores the urgency for a total re-calibration of American politics centered on the dignity and flourishing of the […]
