Today, Americans United for Life, along with local counsel Stephen C. Whiting, filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of AUL in Family Planning Assocation of Maine v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Maine district court , supporting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final Title X rule. Title X was enacted to […]
Americans United for Life applauds the enforcement of federal law prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to finance global abortion activists
Americans United for Life applauds today’s actions by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to protect vulnerable life. Secretary Pompeo announced that, regarding the Mexico City Policy, foreign assistance will no longer be given to NGOs that provide assistance to other groups in the global abortion industry. This change eliminates the potential for backdoor funding of abortion. Secretary […]
New Jersey set to permit suicide by physician
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
