Clinic Regulation
Tiller’s Aides Discontinue Their Late-Term Abortion Services
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Two physicians providing medical evaluations and second opinions for late-term abortions performed by George Tiller at the Kansas Wichita Clinic discontinued their services on Monday, according to a local newspaper.
Kansas law requires that any abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy be performed only if two independent doctors determine that carrying the pregnancy to term would [...]
What Did Barack Obama Promise Planned Parenthood?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Last year before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Barack Obama told pro-abortion activists:
“The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
With a single stroke of the pen, Barack Obama would wipe away virtually every state law on abortion nationwide. Instantly, it will undo thirty-seven years of legal work, research, and [...]
We Are All Called to Fight Abortion
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008In the May issue of Christianity Today, Stan Guthrie addresses those who wish to “move on” from abortion, telling them, “We’re Not Finished.”
In other words, these [Jim Wallis, Ron Sider] and other voices seem to be saying that fighting legalized abortion—the deliberate, state-sanctioned taking of 50 million unborn human lives from their mothers’ wombs since [...]
Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Former AG Paul Morrison’s Letter Clearing Planned Parenthood
Friday, May 2nd, 2008In an unexpected move by the Kansas Supreme Court today, several formerly-sealed documents in the cases involving Planned Parenthood and Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline were unsealed. Importantly, that Court rejected Former Attorney General Paul Morrison’s letter clearing Planned Parenthood of any wrong-doing. In fact, the unsealed documents prove that Morrison tried to return [...]
Gonzales v. Carhart: One Year Later
Monday, April 21st, 2008Gonzales v. Carhart: One Year Later
Letting the People Decide
By Denise M. Burke
Vice President & Legal Director, Americans United for Life
One year ago, the public debate over abortion was irrevocably altered. In the landmark Gonzales v. Carhart decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and, more importantly, abdicated, at least in [...]
NY Parental Rights Group Releases TV Commercial against the NY FOCA
Friday, April 11th, 2008New Yorkers for Parental Rights (NYPR) (http://www.nyfpr.com/) have been spearheading the efforts in opposition to ex-Governor Spitzer’s radical abortion bill, “The Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act”(RHAPP), also known as the NY “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). The group has posted anti-RHAPP billboards on 14 major roadways around the State of NY, and released a [...]
AUL Applauds Defeat of Maryland Anti-CPC Legislation
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Americans United for Life applauds the defeat of Maryland House Bill 690 and Senate Bill 1146, virulent and baseless attacks on pregnancy resource centers instigated by the local chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
AUL worked alongside officials at Care Net, a leading trade group of pregnancy centers, and a coalition of centers, former clients, medical professionals, [...]
Senate to Consider Competing Abortion Bills
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008In what is shaping up to be a pivotal and unpredictable election year, abortion and its negative impact on women have only infrequently been mentioned as important issues in the Presidential campaign. However, they remain critical and divisive issues in Congress where competing bills were recently introduced.
On April 2, Senators David Vitter (R-LA), George Voinovich [...]
Spitzer’s Dangerous and Radical Abortion Bill Would Give New York State the Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Policy in the Nation
Monday, March 24th, 2008Former Governor Eliot Spitzer has introduced an extreme abortion bill, the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP), into the New York State Legislature. This bill will do anything but make abortions rare and safe in New York. On the contrary, the RHAPP will increase the number of abortions performed in New York and wipe [...]
Will Spitzer’s Resignation Kill NY RHAPP Act?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008As most people are now aware, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught trafficking in prostitution across state lines. This morning’s news reports indicate that he will step down effective Monday.
What does this mean for the Reproductive Health and Personal Privacy Act (RHAPP) - the radical pro-abortion bill currently pending before the New York [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
