Archive for August, 2007
2007 State Legislative Sessions in Review
Friday, August 31st, 2007Just posted at AUL.org, our review of the 2007 state legislative sessions.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Overall Trends andAnalysis
Abortion
Amendments to General Abortion Statutes
Abortion Bans/Constitutional Amendments
Abortion Clinic Regulations
Clinic Access/FACE
Coerced Abortions
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Freedom of Choice Act/FOCA
Informed Consent/Women’s Right to Know
Insurance Coverage
Legislative Declarations
Parental Involvement
Provider Requirements/Limitations
Public Funding for Abortion
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AUL Summer Update
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Kathryn Jean Lopez wraps up NRO’s coverage of Anna “Quindlen’s Prison Film”
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007A few weeks ago in her Newsweek column, Anna Quindlen used as a launch point a YouTube video that asked pro-life demonstrators to comment on how much jail time women should receive for having an abortion, if abortion were illegal. Ultimately, Quindlen constructs the following false dichotomy: “hold women accountable for a criminal act by [...]
AUL Seeking Attorney to Direct Albany, New York Office
Monday, August 27th, 2007Overview: The attorney will direct the Albany, New York office of Americans United for Life and conduct legal and legislative efforts on abortion and other human life issues in Albany. The Albany office will do law and public education on abortion from a women’s health perspective and bring to the public debate the medical and [...]
New Initiative in Missouri
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007A coalition of concerned Missouri citizens, doctors, and academics yesterday launched the “Cures Without Cloning” (CWC) initiative to prohibit human cloning in Missouri.
Cures Without Cloning seeks to:
Prohibit human cloning.
Continue to search for cures and treatments using ethical stem cell research.
Prohibit tax-payer money from being used for human cloning experiments.
Press release announcing launch
Home of Cures without [...]
Taking Deception in Journalism to a Whole New Level
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Michelle Gress, former House staffer, writes at National Review Online about the media coverage of a recent study on the abortion drug RU-486.
The study was a comparison of subsequent pregnancy outcomes among women who had prior abortions, concluding that there was no difference between surgical or medical abortion on the impact on subsequent pregnancy.
However, abortion [...]
2007 Annual Chicago Gala
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007You are cordially invited to the
2007 Annual Chicago Gala
on the evening of
Monday, September 24th, 2007
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Union League Club of Chicago
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Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Dear Editor:
I was surprised to read, according to the Globe, (“Shots Assist in Aborting Fetuses – Lethal Injections Offer Legal Shield”, August 10, 2007) that some physicians at three Harvard-affiliated hospitals are lethally injecting unborn children prior to completing abortions. This injection, which according to some doctors cited in the article creates [...]
AUL Seeks Lead Counsel for the AUL Rights of Conscience Center
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Senior Counsel, AUL Rights of Conscience Center
Background: Americans United for Life (AUL) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to promoting a nation in which every person is protected in law and welcomed in life. AUL is seeking an attorney with 2-5 years of experience to serve as lead counsel in AUL’s Center for [...]
AUL Now on Facebook
Thursday, August 9th, 2007AUL is now listed as a cause on Facebook. You’ll need to add the Causes application, then you can add Americans United for Life as a cause.
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Laws Restricting Abortion Are a Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition To Ending Abortion In America
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Gary Bauer of American Values and Campaign for Working Families writes in National Review Online about both the importance of and the success of the incremental approach to ending abortion.
Abortion opponents’ emphasis on informed-consent laws underscores a fresh strategy that’s emerged after decades of thwarted attempts to place even the slightest restrictions on abortion (and [...]
AUL Press Release: Kansas Abortionist Tiller’s Claims without Merit Americans United for Life Amicus Brief Says
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Chicago, IL – August 7: Americans United for Life (AUL) today filed an amicus curiae brief in the case Kansas v. Tiller on behalf of twenty Kansas senators and representatives.
The case involves a challenge by late term abortionist George Tiller to a 1998 Kansas law requiring two doctors to sign off on some late-term [...]
AUL President Clarke Forsythe in National Review Online
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007In response to an article in Newsweek by Anna Quindlen, National Review Online convened an Online Symposium. Among the Expert Opinions offered is the following by AUL President Clarke D. Forsythe, Esq.
Contrary to the pervasive myth that women were prosecuted for abortion before Roe, consistent state abortion policy for a century before Roe was not [...]
