Below are tweets from AUL President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest discussing Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as hi running mate. Congratulations to pro-life stalwart @RepPaulRyan for #MittVP pic! #prolife Pro-life IS an economic issue. — Charmaine (@CharmaineYoest) August 11, 2012 My reax to @RepPaulRyan VP pic: Tax subsidies for abortion and Obamacare […]
World On Campus Q&A with AUL’s Yoest
Dr. Charmaine Yoest was interviewed by Marvin Olasky of World On Campus. An excerpt: Our culture needs to get used to the idea of a world without Roe v. Wade. We have to help people move along. We focus on parental notification, informed consent, bans on partial-birth abortion, clinic regulations: These are all approaches to […]
Maxon speaks at Focus Leadership Institute luncheon
AUL Vice President of External Affairs Jeanneane Maxon recently spoke to a luncheon at the U.S. Capitol sponsored by the Focus Leadership Institute. FLI wrote about the event on their site. An excerpt: Jeanneane Maxon, a leading voice in the defense of the unborn and Vice President at Americans United for Life, continued the conversation. […]
Rep. Stearns wants Planned Parenthood “under oath”
TownHall.com (via Baptist Press) The congressman leading an investigation of Planned Parenthood wants it to testify at a Capitol Hill hearing after the post-abortion death of one of its clients and the organization’s failure to answer his questions the last 10 months. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R.-Fla., told Fox News July 24 he has received massive […]
First Amendment Freedom of Conscience Trampled as Abortion Industry Pay-Out Begins
No longer a looming deadline, the Obama Administration’s anti-life, conscience-killing mandate goes into effect today. Your First Amendment guarantee of freedom of conscience is taking a hit, regardless of whether or not your insurance plan is one of the mandate’s August victims. Last year, the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under […]
“David v. Goliath”: Court grants preliminary injunction to protect family business against the Obama Administration’s conscience-killing mandate.
In a David-versus-Goliath moment this week, a small, family owned business won a pivotal victory against the federal government in a dispute over the Obama Administration’s implementation of the healthcare law. A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction Friday in Newland v. Sebelius, one of the dozens of cases challenging the Obama Administration’s “contraceptive” […]