AUL President Charmaine Yoest speaks on Fox News with Shannon Bream about the recent meeting at the White House, with President Obama’s key policy staffers.

Thanks to your support, this past week saw AUL at the center of two national news stories, including an outstanding victory for life.

• The Associated Press, CBS News, and dozens of other media outlets across the country spotlighted Sotomayor411.com — our one-stop resource for background on Judge Sotomayor’s record on our life issues — and our campaign showing she would be “Worse than Souter.”
• In a case that featured heavy AUL involvement, the Fourth Circuit upheld Virginia’s partial-birth infanticide law. What’s more, the arguments our legal team presented to the court featured prominently in its decision.

These and other AUL success stories testify to the power of our pro-life advocacy to influence minds and hearts.

But we must reach higher.

With the Sotomayor confirmation hearings set to begin on July 13, we need “all hands on deck” to show the Senate and the nation that Judge Sotomayor’s radical record — including her longtime participation in a pro-abortion advocacy group — makes her unfit for the highest court in the land.

AUL is not only America’s oldest national nonprofit working exclusively to promote life. We also have the largest and most experienced team of pro-life attorneys working to defend life in law.

We have already been meeting on Capitol Hill with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to brief them on Judge Sotomayor’s agenda and urge them to ask her the tough questions.

But to do that takes long hours of legal research and lots of legwork on Capitol Hill.

That’s why I’m asking you to stand with us. Our fiscal year ends on June 30, and we must close strong. Over the last few months we’ve been able to hire new attorneys – Bill Saunders, a Harvard-trained expert in life issues, and Mary Harned, former Chief Counsel on the Judiciary Committee to Senator Tom Coburn – and we plan to bring in even more expertise to keep the focus on life in these challenging times.

We only have 48 hours left before we close out our books for the year. We need your support now to make sure Congress hears your opinions about Judge Sotomayor! Join our support team today. By acting before midnight, Tuesday, June 30, you further enable us for the confirmation battle which begins just two weeks from today.

When U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a pro-life Republican from South Carolina, asked Judge Sotomayor if she believed the unborn had any rights whatsoever, she told him she had “never thought about it.” We need to get the Senate Judiciary Committee to think about the consequences of confirming a Supreme Court justice whose radical record shows she would vote to overturn all legal protections for the unborn.

Will you join us? Make your donation today and be part of this historic effort to protect and defend the hard-won victories of the pro-life movement.

Thank you for supporting our work and and standing with us For Life!

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Americans United for Life

P.S.  If Judge Sotomayor makes it to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will have the power to read a fundamental right to abortion into the Constitution. Send your donation by midnight tomorrow, June 30, and help us make sure the Senate Judiciary Committee calls her to account for her radical record.

Charmaine Yoest, AUL’s President & CEO, was on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier discussing the latest Gallup poll numbers that indicate for the first time that the majority of Americans are pro-life. See the YouTube video below to view the clip.

Abortion has been a very hot topic in the news lately, with the retirement of Justice Souter, Obama’s stance on the issue coming to the forefront, several pro-life bills presented in various states, Gallup’s new poll concluding the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life, among others. As a result of abortion becoming the center of much dialog around the country, Americans United for Life has been one of the main go-to pro-life groups in the news. Below are a few (among many) articles appeared over the weekend, highlighting AUL’s recent activity in the media.
 
Abortion, gay marriage complicate Supreme Court decision, Los Angeles Times

51% identify as ‘pro-life’ in U.S., Los Angeles Times

Obama’s Short List of Abortion Supporters, by Charmaine Yoest, Human Events

In addition to these media appearances, AUL’s President & CEO, Charmaine Yoest, will appear on Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News TONIGHT. Tune in during the 6pm EST hour to hear her discuss the recent Gallup Poll studies.

UPDATE: the video is now available

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), is scheduled to appear on the FOX News program FOX & Friends Weekend on Sunday, March 8 at 9:20 AM Eastern, 8:20 AM Central.

Charmaine is set to debate Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania on President Obama’s coming Executive Order to overturn President Bush’s limits on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.  The order is expected Monday.

Also, please visit AUL’s YouTube Channel to see other recent media appearances, such as when Charmaine and Art Caplan last debated bioethics issues on FOX News program Huckabee.

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, is scheduled to appear on Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Fox News show Huckabee. She is set to discuss the Nadya Suleman octuplet case.

Huckabee airs on Fox News channel several times over the weekend:

• 8:00 pm et / 7:00 pm ct Saturday
• 2:00 am et / 1:00 am ct Sunday
• 8:00 pm et / 7:00 pm ct Sunday
• 11:00 pm et / 10:00 pm ct Sunday