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Legal Analysis of Life Concerns in President’s Proposal (Same as the Senate Health Care Reform Bill)

February 22, 2010

February 22, 2010 Update
On Monday morning, February 22, 2010, President Obama unveiled a “new” health care reform proposal. The White House proposal is a modification of the Senate-passed bill. However, the White House failed to remove the anti-life language. Therefore, all of AUL’s concerns about the bill’s abortion-related provisions, conscience provision, and end-of-life provisions remain. Further, [...]

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Video of Dr. Yoest at CPAC

February 19, 2010

Video of Dr. Charmaine Yoest at CPAC 2010 speaking at a panel discussion entitled, “Saving Freedom One Life at a Time.

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Dr. Charmaine Yoest at CPAC today

February 19, 2010

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of Americans United for Life, will be participating in a panel discussion today at CPAC. The panel, “Saving Freedom One Life at a Time”, will start at 9:15 a.m. EST. You can watch the panel discussion on Townhall’s CPAC video stream.
More on the rest of AUL’s participation at CPAC [...]

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See us at CPAC

February 18, 2010

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of AUL, will be speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC this Friday, February 19th at 9:15am Eastern time on the topic “Saving One Life at a Time.” The conference started this morning and runs through Saturday evening. Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint spoke already [...]

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Presidential Quotations

February 15, 2010

In honor of today’s holiday (that most people refer to as Presidents’ Day), here are some quotations from American presidents on the issue of life.
Thomas Jefferson
“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
Ronald Reagan
“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has [...]

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Pregnancy Centers Get Boost in Oklahoma

February 9, 2010

While abortion advocates like NARAL are targeting pregnancy resource centers and their life-saving work in states like Washington and Virginia, those same centers got a boost this week in Oklahoma.
On Rose Day, the annual pro-life lobbying day in the Oklahoma legislature, the Senate unanimously passed AUL’s model resolution supporting the state’s pregnancy centers. Pro-life [...]

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VIDEO: Dr. Yoest on Fox News about the military and the morning-after pill

February 8, 2010

The video below is a news story from Friday night (2/5/10) aired on Special Report on Fox News Channel. Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of AUL, is interviewed in the story, which was on the military requiring health care facilities to stock the morning-after pill. More information on this topic can be found here.

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Abortion Supporters Push Radical Agenda at Expense of U.S. Military

February 5, 2010

[Editor's Note: Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of AUL, will be on Special Report with Bret Baier tonight (2/5/10) to discuss this topic. Click here for the live video. Dr. Yoest will likely be on from 6:15 to 6:20.]
Pro-Abortion Forces Declare War
Abortion Supporters Push Radical Agenda at Expense of U.S. Military
Not content simply to be at [...]

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Statement of AUL President Dr. Charmaine Yoest on new Senator Scott Brown

February 4, 2010

Statement of Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest on new Senator Scott Brown:
“Americans United for Life would like to congratulate Senator Scott Brown on his swearing-in today and welcome him to Washington. Although the Senator’s support for Roe v. Wade has been widely reported, Senator Brown also opposes federal funding [...]

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Guards ban pro-life pin from National Gallery of Art

January 27, 2010

Meghan Duke blogs at On the Square about her experience Saturday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington:
After searching my bag, the two guards at the Gallery told me, “You’re good to go in, but first you need to remove that pro-life pin.” He was indicating the small lime green pin with the message [...]

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Live coverage of today’s March for Life

January 22, 2010

AUL Action has a special site covering today’s March for Life at VirtualMarchforLife.com. We will have updates there throughout the day.

While there, you can watch a live webcast courtesy of EWTN. You can also see Twitter and text message (SMS) updates. To have your updates show up, use the Twitter hashtag of #march4life or text [...]

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Governors Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Sen. John McCain join the Virtual March for Life

January 21, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to attend tomorrow’s National March for Life, which takes place annually on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. Americans United for Life Action, in an effort to bolster the real March for Life, launched the first-ever Virtual March for Life www.virtualmarchforlife.com earlier this week. [...]

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Join the Virtual March for Life!

January 15, 2010

If you haven’t yet joined, surf on over to www.VirtualMarchForLife.com and set up your avatar right now. Then tweet, post on Facebook, and email your friends for the largest pro-life online event ever!
For more information, check our legislative arm AUL Action’s blog by clicking here.

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Memo to Congress: The Public is Watching Your Health Care Vote

January 6, 2010

And maybe closer than you think
In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Senator Ben Nelson’s popularity is in a nosedive at home in Nebraska after he threw away his pro-life credentials for a few Medicaid dollars.
After standing firm for weeks insisting that there be no expansion of abortion through the government health care bill, Nelson abandoned [...]

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New Op-ed: Pro-Life Leaders Expose Road to Government Funded Abortions

January 6, 2010

In today’s Washington Times, Americans United for Life President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest penned an op-ed with other pro-life leaders Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony List, Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life and David Bereit of 40 Days for Life outlining the abortion lobby’s stealth push to win big financially from abortion dollars [...]

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Dr. Yoest speaks out on passage of Senate health care bill.

December 24, 2009

“Americans don’t want taxpayer funding for abortions and are opposed to a first-ever, mandatory abortion tax. Knowing this, the bill’s proponents have rushed it through the Senate at a time when Americans are focused on celebrating Christmas with their families.”
- Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life
For more information:
http://blog.aul.org/2009/12/20/the-abortion-tax-and-other-problems-in-senator-reid%E2%80%99s-amendment/
http://blog.aul.org/2009/12/19/legal-analysis-of-life-concerns-in-managers-amendment/

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AUL Files Brief Detailing Abortion’s Suicide Risk

December 22, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 22, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Today, Americans United for Life (AUL) filed an amicus brief in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, detailing the links between abortion and the increased risk of depression and suicide. The brief seeks to overturn a lower court’s decision that abortion providers in South Dakota are not required [...]

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AUL Challenges Prohibitions on Free Speech: AUL Attorneys File Supreme Court Brief in “Bubble Zone” Case

December 22, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Today, Americans United for Life (AUL) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to hear a challenge to, and ultimately strike down, a 2007 Massachusetts law criminalizing the peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights outside abortion clinics.
“This law is an affront to the [...]

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Dr. Charmaine Yoest: “60 Senators Just Made History…”

December 21, 2009

Statement of Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life

“60 U.S. Senators just made history by voting to move forward with a bill that imposes a first-ever mandatory abortion tax on the American people. Majority Leader Reid held this vote in the middle of the night because he knows that the vast majority of [...]

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Life Concerns in Senate Health Care Reform Bill

December 16, 2009

I. Abortion
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill includes pro-abortion language that mirrors the Capps Amendment from the original House health care bill. The bill:

Allows the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to require coverage of any and all abortions through the community health insurance (public) option (as long as an accounting mechanism [...]

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