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Case Status Update: Ohio Supreme Court Will Look at RU-486 Law
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008For the last several years, the State of Ohio has been in litigation defending its law requiring that physicians prescribing RU-486 abide by the FDA’s protocol when dispensing the drug. On June 23, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law should be evaluated by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Passed in 2004, the law [...]
Congressional Leaders Pull Stop Abuse Bill over Parental Rights
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Last night, House leaders abruptly pulled HR 5876, the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act, from the floor over a Motion to Recommit that would have required that any facility covered under the bill have a policy in place to require parental consent before distributing any prescription medication, including contraception and Plan [...]
Study Reveals that Improper RU-486 Use Is Deadly
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008At least 14 women have now died—including 8 in the United States—after using the abortion drug RU-486. A new study by University of Michigan scientists reveals that improper use of the drug regimen—as pushed by Planned Parenthood—is killing women.
When the FDA approved RU-486, it directed that the drug be taken according to a certain regimen. [...]
AMA: Launching Yet Another Attack on Freedom of Conscience?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008The Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association (AMA) is asking its membership to adopt a policy that supports eviscerating the freedom of conscience of pharmacists. Specifically, the following recommendation will be considered at next week’s AMA meeting:
A pharmacist’s deliberate refusal to dispense a drug on religious, moral, or ethical grounds, i.e., pharmacist [...]
The Battlefield Broadens: The Mexican Roe v. Wade
Thursday, June 5th, 2008In the last several years, the “usual suspects” in the pro-abortion movement have been infesting other nations with their pro-choice rhetoric. One need only peruse the first page of the Center for Reproductive Rights’ website to see headlines such as “Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Chilean Constitutional Tribunal’s Decision to Ban Distribution of ‘Morning-After Pill’ [...]
Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto
Thursday, April 17th, 2008AUL’s Oklahoma State Network Affiliate, Maressa Treat sends the following message about activity in her state.
Last night Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry vetoed SB 1878, an omnibus pro-life bill, but today pro-life legislators came together and overrode the veto!
The Oklahoma State Senate voted at 11:00 am to override Governor Henry’s veto, 37-11. And thirty minutes later [...]
Pro-Life Legislation Passes Oklahoma Senate
Friday, April 11th, 2008Maressa Treat, AUL’s liaison in Oklahoma, has worked with a coalition of pro-life groups and individuals to pass Senate Bill 1878, a sweeping piece of pro-life legislation. The bill now awaits the Governor Brad Henry’s signature.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oklahoma State Senate
Senator Todd Lamb, R-Edmond
Pro-Life Legislation Passes Senate
State Capitol, Oklahoma City – An omnibus pro-life bill passed [...]
Catholic Hospitals in Danger in Colorado
Friday, March 14th, 2008Government infringement into the operations of Catholic hospitals is not new. In both California and New York, long court battles have been fought seeking to exempt Catholic Hospitals from provisions requiring the dispensing of emergency contraception.
But legislators in Colorado are taking things even farther, and the very existence of Catholic Hospitals operating under Catholic principles [...]
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 [...]
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals: Clinic Need Not Tell Parents about So-Called Emergency Contraception
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007The 3d Circuit’s decision on September 21 in Anspach v. City of Philadelphia is a tragic and unfortunate ruling that further undermines parental rights to consent to the health care of their children. The traditional rule, in virtually all 50 states, is that no doctor can touch a child without parental CONSENT (not just NOTICE), [...]
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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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 [...]
