Despite the New Jersey legislature’s approval of suicide by physician, and the stated intention of Governor Phil Murphy to sign suicide by physician into New Jersey law, Americans United for Life underscores the good news that more states have acted to affirmatively protect their citizens from suicide by physician over the past 20 years than […]
Be the Bridge that Saves Lives
The historic Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington D.C., near the Americans United for Life offices, spans a picturesque stretch of the Rock Creek Parkway. Stately and tall, it’s been considered a landmark of neoclassical architecture since it was built in 1934. Unfortunately, in modern times it also gained a reputation as a “jumper’s bridge” – […]
Testimony on Montana H.B. 284, Affirming that Consent to Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not a Defense to a Charge of Homicide
Testimony of Bobby Schindler On H.B. 284Submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee March 20, 2019 Dear Chair Regier and Members of the Committee: My name is Bobby Schindler, and I serve as President of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network. I submit this testimony on behalf of that organization as well as Americans United […]
AUL files brief on behalf of 77 Members of Congress, supporting Texas’s right to defund Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 19, 2019)—Today, Americans United for Life filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of a group of 77 Members of Congress in the en banc Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, supporting Texas’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood under its State Medicaid program. The case, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Phillips, arose after […]
Testimony on Florida H. 1335, Relating to Parental Consent to Obtain an Abortion
Testimony of Catherine Glenn Foster, Esq. On H. 1335 Submitted to the House Health Quality Subcommittee March 19, 2019 Dear Chair Burton and Members of the Committee: My name is Catherine Glenn Foster, and I serve as President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), America’s oldest and most active pro-life nonprofit advocacy organization. […]
Testimony on Connecticut H.B. 5898, Which Aims to Legalize Drug-Induced Suicide
Testimony of Steven H. Aden, Esq. On H.B. 5898 Submitted to the Joint Committee on Public Health March 18, 2019 Dear Co-Chairs Daugherty Abrams and Steinberg, and Members of the Committees: My name is Steven H. Aden, and I serve as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for Americans United for Life (AUL). Established in […]
Testimony on Vermont Prop. 5, Guaranteeing the Right to Abortion
Testimony of Catherine Glenn Foster, Esq. On Proposition 5 Submitted to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare March 13, 2019 Dear Chair Lyons, Vice Chair Westman, and Members of the Committee: My name is Catherine Glenn Foster, and I serve as President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), America’s original and […]
‘I am standing up for all women’
Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, shared the following reflections to mark International Women’s Day: As I celebrate International Women’s Day, I am standing up for all women. For our right to exist, for our right to be free from harm, for our right to participate in society just as […]
AUL files U.S. Supreme Court brief supporting Indiana’s ultrasound viewing option
Americans United for Life filed a Supreme Court brief today on behalf of medical and pregnancy center groups, supporting Indiana’s ultrasound viewing option during the informed consent process for women considering abortion. The case, Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, involves an Indiana law requiring that, at the same time that a woman […]
Testimony on Delaware S.B. 19, The Woman’s Ultrasound Right to Know Act
Testimony of Catherine Glenn Foster, Esq. On S.B. 19 Submitted to the Senate Sunset Committee March 6, 2019 Dear Chair Lockman and Members of the Committee: My name is Catherine Glenn Foster, and I serve as President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), America’s oldest and most active pro-life nonprofit advocacy organization. Founded […]
Testimony on Delaware S.B. 21, The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
Testimony of Catherine Glenn Foster, Esq. On S.B. 21 Submitted to the Senate Sunset Committee March 6, 2019 Dear Chair Lockman and Members of the Committee: My name is Catherine Glenn Foster, and I serve as President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), America’s oldest and most active pro-life nonprofit advocacy organization. Founded […]
Testimony on Nevada S.B. 165, Which Aims to Legalize Suicide by Physician
Written Testimony of Catherine Glenn Foster, Esq. on S.B. 165 Opposing S.B. 165, the Controlled Substances to End Patient Life Act Submitted to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee February 22, 2019 Dear Chair Hardy and Honorable Members of the Committee: My name is Catherine Glenn Foster, and I serve as President and CEO […]
HHS rule prohibits Title X funding of abortion
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule requiring that Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. Title X explicitly states that no Title X funds “shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.” […]
Mildred Jefferson’s Iconic Perseverance
Dr. Mildred Jefferson is one of the finest examples of the American Dream at work. From her upbringing in Pittsburg Texas to graduating as the first black woman from Harvard Medical School, and becoming the first woman employed as a general surgeon at Boston University Medical Center, she became an icon in the pro-life movement. […]
Maryland H.B. 399 would permit suicide by physician
“It would be a tragedy for Maryland to embrace suicide by physician, as HB 399 would do,” said Catherine Glenn Foster, President & CEO of Americans United for Life. “It’s a straightforward reality that any law that empowers one person to take the life of another would be unjust, and that reality doesn’t change simply […]
David Kaplan: Roe v. Wade Shows the Court is ‘too powerful’
Published just after the Kavanaugh hearings, David Kaplan’s book, The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution, is the newest criticism of the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts by a liberal legal commentator. His major theme is that the Supreme Court has become too powerful. While conservatives will dispute some of Kaplan’s […]
