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Abortion Proponents Argue Against Medical Standards of Care
February 22, 2012
What happens when abortion providers don’t follow practices of standard medical care?
You get Kermit Gosnell. Or Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley. You get unsafe, unsanitary conditions.
You get a “back alley.”
In order to better protect the health and welfare of women seeking abortion, states regulate abortion clinics and require informed consent before obtaining an abortion. For [...]
- The Alabama Supreme Court released an important decision in Hamilton v. Scott today.
- Americans United for Life Files a brief regarding the Constitutionality of the Abortion Mandate in President Obama’s Healthcare Law before the U.S. Supreme Court
Defending Life 2011
Each year, AUL publishes Defending Life: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life.
This annual resource manual combines our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators, policy makers, the media, and interested Americans. It comprehensively addresses abortion, protection of the unborn (in contexts outside of abortion), bioethics, the end-of-life, and health care freedom of conscience, expertly tackles legal and policy challenges for the pro-life movement, and reports on recent legislative and courtroom victories, continuing progress toward protecting life in each of the 50 states, and emerging issues and trends.
READ MOREStates Opting Out Initiative
AUL immediately responded to the anti-life provisions in the new federal health care law by releasing our new model legislation – the Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act. The new health care reform law requires individual States to operate and maintain “health insurance exchanges.” Health insurance plans offering abortion coverage are allowed to participate in a state’s exchange and to receive federal subsidies unless the State legislature affirmatively opts-out of offering these plans.
