Archive for February, 2008
Schedule for AUL Legal Institute Announced. Save the Dates June 23-26, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
AUL Legal Institute — June 23-26, 2008
Preliminary Schedule (subject to change)
Registration Coming Soon
Monday, June 23
9:00 — 9:15 am
Welcome
Daniel McConchie, M.A., Vice President & Executive Director, Americans United for Life
9:15 — 10:30 am
Abortion: The Ultimate Abuser of Women
TBD
10:45 — 12:00 pm
RU486 and the Coming Chemical Abortion Revolution
TBD
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Lunch with morning speaker (TBD)
1:30 — 3:00 [...]
AUL Announces Selection of 2008 Fellows
Monday, February 25th, 2008In today’s fast-paced environment, rapid advances in biotechnology pose increasing political, legal, and ethical problems. We also face other serious challenges to life on issues related to abortion, healthcare rights of conscience, and the end of life. These challenges call for increased education and training of individuals who will be future pro-life leaders. One of [...]
The Embryo Conversation Continues
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Over the past couple of weeks a fascinating back-and-forth has been going on between the authors of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, and Slate.com bioethics reporter William Saletan (see here).
The latest entry, by George and Tollefsen was posted today at National Review Online. It’s well worth your time.
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Reps. Lipinski and Lamborn to host AUL & Defending Life 2008 on Capitol Hill
Friday, February 22nd, 2008SAVE THE DATE!
Congressional Representatives Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and Doug Lamborn (R-CO) will be hosting AUL as we distribute copies of our landmark legal guide Defending Life 2008 on Capitol Hill.
WHAT: Defending Life 2008 Luncheon
WHEN: April 3, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30pm
WHERE: 2105 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
RSVP is required. Call 312-492-7234 if [...]
AUL Attorney Testifies in Missouri
Friday, February 22nd, 2008On Tuesday, February 19, the Missouri House Committee on Healthcare Policy considered HB 1831, a bill enhancing Missouri’s informed consent before abortion statute. In addition to requiring that women be informed of the medical risks of abortion, HB 1831 also requires that women receive information on the availability of ultrasound, as well as information on [...]
Battle over NY Freedom of Choice Act Rages On
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Governor Eliot Spitzer’s “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA), also called the “Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act” (RHAPP), has kindled a fiery debate in New York. Democratic Senator Ruben Diaz (Bronx) declared earlier this month that the RHAPP “is one of the most dangerous and radical pieces of proposed legislation in New York State that [...]
Pope Benedict on Bioethics
Thursday, February 21st, 2008At the end of January, Pope Benedict gave an address to plenary session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The full text of the speech is now available in English on the Vatican website.
His remarks on bioethics were near the end of the address:
I also ask you, dear friends, to pay special [...]
Required Reading: Banning Human Cloning, the Why and How
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Leon Kass, former Chair of The President’s Council on Bioethics, writes in the Weekly Standard on why it is time to ban human cloning, and how to go about doing it.
Despite the president’s numerous calls for action, we remain the only major nation in the high-tech world that cannot summon itself to ban human cloning, [...]
Embryo Reviewed
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Sunday’s New York Times Book Review carried a review of Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. The reviewer, Slate.com’s bioethics writer/reporter William Saletan, is someone that I generally respect as a thoughtful writer, even though I don’t always agree with him. His review of Embryo, though, is an unusually poor showing.
In response to the review, [...]
South Dakota Senate Defeats Threat to Pharmacists
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008The South Dakota Senate has rejected, by a vote of 22 to 12, a bill that would have removed legal protection from pharmacists who refuse to sell or dispense contraceptives including so-called “emergency contraceptives” in violation of their consciences. Senate Bill 164 proposed that a pharmacist’s refusal to sell a drug that violated his [...]
Defending Life 2008 Now Available at Amazon.com
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Defending Life 2008: Proven Strategies for a Pro-Life America is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and hardback.
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Phill Kline: Only Way To Enforce Law Is To See Medical Records
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Johnson County (KS) district attorney and former Kansas attorney general Phill Kline today pens an op-ed in the Wichita Eagle on his work to obtain medical records so that he can enforce laws protecting minors:
Only Way To Enforce Law Is To See Medial Records
By Phill Kline
Abuse almost always occurs behind a veil of secrecy. Such [...]
Assisted Suicide Initiative Challenged in Washington
Monday, February 11th, 2008Disability advocates, medical professionals, pro-life advocates, and other opponents of physician-assisted suicide have filed a lawsuit to stop a proposed Washington ballot initiative legalizing the practice.
The Coalition Against Assisted Suicide maintains that the wording of Initiative 1000 fails to inform voters of all the potential changes to state law and argues that it not only [...]
A Lack of Prudence
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008This article originally appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Human Life Review. Used by Permission. For a free sample issue of Human Life Review, call 212-685-5210 or visit www.humanlifereview.com.
A Lack of Prudence
by Clarke D. Forsythe
President, Americans United for Life
In June, certain anti-abortion activists bought full-page newspaper ads featuring an “open letter” [...]
AUL State Supreme Court Project Complete . . . for Now
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008All 50 state supreme court whitepapers have been posted at AULStateSupremeCourtProject.org! We will continue to update the papers as situations change in the states.
The AUL State Supreme Court Project is just one way that we are preparing for the day after Roe. Explore our main website, AUL.org, for more information on our work.
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Abortion remains one of the most unregulated and unaccountable medical procedures in the country
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008So says Jonathan Imbody, Vice President for Government Relations at Christian Medical Association, in an op-ed in today’s Washington Times:
The article “Clinic must release abortion data” (Nation, Thursday), which details a Kansas grand jury’s investigation of illegal late-term abortions, exposes the fact that abortion remains one of the most unregulated and unaccountable medical procedures in [...]
Successful Cancer Treatment Using Umbilical Cord Stem Cells
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Sorrel Mason, age 2, had a rare cancer – acute myeloid leukemia – and had a 30% chance of survival. After a failed search across America and Europe to find a suitable bone marrow tissue donor, a partial match was finally found in umbilical stem cells from Japan. A bone marrow transplant was successfully performed [...]
British Lab Creates Three-Parent Embryos
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008“It is human beings they are experimenting with,” says Countess Josephine Quintavalle, founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, regarding the creation of 3-parent embryos by scientists at Newcastle University, England.
The new technique amounts to human cloning, using an embryo as a source of DNA.
Newcastle scientists created 10 embryos using the DNA of 3 parents – [...]
Busy Day for the State Supreme Court Project
Friday, February 1st, 2008In addition to the two whitepapers posted this morning (Idaho and Louisiana), the following whitepapers were posted this afternoon:
Florida
Hawaii
Maryland
Minnesota
New Mexico
This bring the number of state supreme court whitepapers now available at AULStateSupremeCourtProject.org to 47.
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Idaho and Louisiana Supreme Court Whitepapers Posted
Friday, February 1st, 2008The Idaho and Louisiana supreme court whitepapers have just been posted at AULStateSupremeCourtProject.org. There are now 42 state supreme court whitepapers available.
In addition, all of the state supreme court materials from Defending Life 2008 are now available:
The Essential Role of State Supreme Courts in the World After Roe
Summary Information on State Supreme Courts
State [...]