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Dr. Charmaine Yoest
President & CEO

Expertise: Abortion, Legal Recognition, Bioethics, End of Life, Rights, Courts, Congress

Expertise: Supreme Court nominations, Human Life Amendments, personhood, constitutional amendments on abortion, development of new model legislation

William L. Saunders
Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs

Expertise: Supreme Court nominations, Bioethics and technology, cloning, constitutional amendments, customary international law and life issues, international declarations, treaties and organizations affecting life issues and human dignity, euthanasia, human rights, law and morality, judicial appointments, stem cell research, abortion, rights of conscience

Denise M. Burke
Vice President of Legal Affairs and Editor-in-Chief of Defending Life

Expertise: 50-state plan, abortion bans (not PBA), state FOCA’s, abortion provider requirements, admitting privileges, clinic regulations, abortion reporting, sex abuse reporting, crisis pregnancy centers and CPC funding, “Choose Life” plates, fetal homicide, fetal assault, use of force, prenatal drug use, wrongful death, wrongful birth, born-alive infant protection, Baby Moses laws, fetal death certificates, fights of conscience, legislative tracking of Unborn Victims bills, development of new model legislation, litigation tracking, AUL policy guides, amicus briefs

Daniel S. McConchie
Vice President of Government Affairs

Expertise: State legislation, States Opt-Out, abortion funding in health care reform

Mailee Smith
Staff Counsel

Expertise: Partial-birth abortion bans, informed consent, ultrasounds, fetal pain, ABC link, coerced abortions, RU-486, bioethics, cloning, DER, research funding, adult stem cells, ART/IVF, legislative tracking of bioethics, federal legislation, development of new model legislation, AUL policy guides

Mary Harned
Staff Counsel

Expertise: Supreme Court nominations, Federal healthcare reform legislation, abortion funding restrictions (Hyde Amendment), federal legislative tracking on End-of-Life, assisted suicide, palliative care, advance directives, Artificial food and hydration, development of new model federal legislation, parental involvement, abortion funding, Medicaid funding, restrictions on state funds and facilities, insurance coverage, emergency contraception/Plan B, “contraceptive equity,” end-of-life issues, assisted suicide, palliative care, Advance directives, artificial food and hydration, development of new model legislation, AUL policy guides

Anna Franzonello
Staff Counsel

Expertise: Federal healthcare reform legislation, abortion funding restrictions (Hyde Amendment), federal conscience protections (Hyde/Weldon Amendment), rationing of care, federal judicial nominations, international abortion issues, abortion, women’s health

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