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Dr. Charmaine Yoest after being honored by the Missouri House of Representatives
They said it couldn’t be done. Pro-abortion commentators were convinced that the sweeping pro-life achievements of 2011 could not continue because 2012 marked an off-year legislative session, leading up to an election. But through our state representatives and other significant relationships with state-based allies, AUL actively worked in 39 states to enact life-affirming laws and to defeat anti-life initiatives. In 2012, AUL realized several important victories for Life, including the enactment of 19 life-affirming laws.
Well known for our cutting edge model legislation, AUL’s guidebook to life-affirming legislationDefending Life continued [...]

A Slate story on the selection of Paul Ryan quotes Dr. Charmaine Yoest of AUL:
The president accused the Republicans of trying to take women’s healthcare back to the 1950s. In my inbox this morning is a four-star endorsement of Paul Ryan from Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life, and an increasingly important leader of the anti-abortion movement. Yoest hails him as “an unambiguous defender of the need for a pro-life vision for America.” So on reproductive rights as well as the budget and taxes, does Ryan supply the vision where Romney lacks it?
Click here to read the whole [...]

Dr. Charmaine Yoest was interviewed by Marvin Olasky of World On Campus.
An excerpt:
Our culture needs to get used to the idea of a world without Roe v. Wade. We have to help people move along. We focus on parental notification, informed consent, bans on partial-birth abortion, clinic regulations: These are all approaches to abortion that the vast majority of the American people support. When you pass these kinds of legislation, you can dramatically reduce the rate of abortion in a state. If I can go and talk with a mother who flat-out disagrees with me about abortion as a whole, [...]

AUL Vice President of External Affairs Jeanneane Maxon recently spoke to a luncheon at the U.S. Capitol sponsored by the Focus Leadership Institute.
FLI wrote about the event on their site.
An excerpt:
Jeanneane Maxon, a leading voice in the defense of the unborn and Vice President at Americans United for Life, continued the conversation. In a segment on “Cultivating Hopeful and Winsome Advocacy,” Maxon spoke about the value of perseverance in a discouraging cultural arena. Against a backdrop of painfully slow progress in defending the most vulnerable members of our society, Jeanneane reminded impact-oriented Millennials of the truth of Romans 5:5: Hope [...]

TownHall.com (via Baptist Press)
The congressman leading an investigation of Planned Parenthood wants it to testify at a Capitol Hill hearing after the post-abortion death of one of its clients and the organization’s failure to answer his questions the last 10 months.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R.-Fla., told Fox News July 24 he has received massive amounts of information with no answers since he launched an investigation in September 2011 of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its affiliates. Planned Parenthood is the country’s leading abortion provider.
“I would like to put them under oath,” said Stearns, who is chairman of the Subcommittee [...]

Anna Franzonello of AUL wrote about Mississippi’s abortion regulations at The Corner at National Review Online.
An excerpt:
Last week, the Daily Beast wanted readers to “meet the woman in charge of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.” Why the introduction to Diane Derzis, who “embraces the moniker” of “abortion queen”? Her clinic was facing closure for failing to be in compliance with a new Mississippi law.
The piece falls short of helping us to make a true acquaintance, glossing over critical pieces of information for anyone who wants to get to know Derzis and what motivates her. The “abortion queen” is no altruistic champion [...]

Denise Burke in The Washington Times:
The deadline for the Supreme Court’s decision on Obamacare has nearly arrived. As the nation contemplates the impact of this historic case, the court’s ruling upholding Pennsylvania’s informed-consent and parental-consent requirements in the abortion case Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaches its 20th anniversary.
The rhetoric swirling around Planned Parenthood v. Casey would sound very familiar to those following the debates over Obamacare. Abortion advocates have not ceased inventing rights for women, such as access to federally funded contraception and unrestricted, unregulated and taxpayer-funded abortion. They allege that those who do not support their radical agenda [...]

Dr. Michael New, in an opinion piece first appearing at Roll Call, and then run by LifeNews.com, cites AUL statistics:
Americans United for Life reports that since 1992, the number of states with parental involvement laws has increased from 20 to 38. The number of states with informed consent laws has increased from 18 to 33. The number of states with abortion clinic regulations has increased from 21 to 30. More importantly, after Casey, many states strengthened existing restrictions. In particular, several states improved their informed consent laws by including more information about health risks, fetal development and sources of support [...]

The Washington Free Beacon
Planned Parenthood is mounting a campaign to combat state laws in Tennessee, Michigan, and Pennsylvania designed to protect the health of women.
At issue are controversial laws requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, which require providers to meet certain medical and professional standards.
Denise Burke, Vice President of Legal Affairs for Americans United for Life, pointed to evidence that suggests, “Women are receiving substandard care.”
“It is important to make sure that women receive safe, competent care on abortions,” she said.
Burke noted that 12 states require abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. [...]

Anna Franzonello of AUL wrote a piece for The Corner at National Review Online.
An excerpt:
Sandra Fluke’s lamentation over “a wave of anti-contraception state legislation” makes it sound as if Arizona and other states are banning birth control. That is demonstrably not the case. A student at a prestigious law school, who presumably is familiar with the legislation she writes about, Ms. Fluke should understand that her rhetoric amounts to a politically motivated scare tactic.
This inaccurate framing of the issue is just the beginning of a series of inexcusable flaws in Ms. Fluke’s article. She declares that, on the anniversary of [...]

Excerpts from The Washington Examiner
“This guy is the ‘abortion president,’” said New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, who for three decades has co-chaired the House pro-life caucus. “This election is the most important in our lifetime. This is a transitional election,” he added.
Smith, who just received the Henry J. Hyde award for Americans United for Life for his career dating back to his days as a pro-life organizer at Trenton State College in 1972, told Secrets that the movement is eager to battle Obama over the pro-abortion mandate he leveled on religious institutions and support for Planned Parenthood.
“I think this is [...]

Excerpt from Politico Pro

If Congress someday manages to pass a ban on sex-selective abortions, it could be an ideal vehicle for bringing the next direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, legal experts argued Thursday at a forum sponsored by Americans United for Life.

That’s because, according to University of St. Thomas law professor Michael Paulsen, “It turns on its head this perverted notion that abortion rights are needed to protect equality of the sexes” — which was one of the principles used to uphold Roe in the landmark 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

AUL convened Thursday’s forum, which marked the 20th [...]

The Daily Caller reports:
According to pro-life groups, PRENDA is an essential piece of legislation that must be passed.
“This is a real war on women,” Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest said Wednesday. “There is nothing pro-woman about killing a baby girl because she is female, and putting her mother’s health and safety at risk in the process.”

From a piece at The Hill’s Healthwatch blog:
In a letter Wednesday, Americans United for Life (AUL) urged House members to “stop a real war on women — sex selection abortions” by supporting the legislation from Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.).
A Republican echoed that line on the House floor.
“This is the ultimate war on women, Mr. Speaker,” Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (N.Y.) said of sex-selective abortion.
“There can be no rights for women if we do not allow them the right to life.”
An AUL spokeswoman said the message aims to take back rhetorical ground that has been occupied by Democrats [...]

AUL’s William Saunders and Anna Franzonello blogging at LifeNews:
Under the pretext of protecting the Title X “family planning” program, Representative Robert Dold (a self-described “pro-choice” Republican from Illinois) has introduced legislation misleadingly titled “Protecting Women’s Access to Health Care.”
Representative Dold claims his bill—which would prohibit excluding abortion providers from the Title X program—is “critical” for ensuring “nondiscrimination within the federal Title X family planning program.” In reality, the bill only protects the abortion industry’s inappropriate stranglehold on Title X funding, and does not promote women’s health care.
The concern that the abortion industry would misuse or exploit family planning funds predates [...]

From The Edmond Sun:
A day after an Oklahoma judge struck down a law related to abortion-inducing drugs the Edmond lawmaker who authored it defended it during a press conference.
In May 2011, Gov. Mary Fallin signed House Bill 1970, authored by Rep. Randy Grau, R-Edmond, and Sen. Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City. It required that abortion providers dispense abortion-inducing drugs in accordance with Food and Drug Administration guidelines and that physicians examine their patients before prescribing an abortion-inducing drug.
The bill also required physicians to schedule a follow-up appointment and provide the patient with the drug’s label to ensure the patient is fully [...]

Mary Novick of AUL writing at National Review Online:
For years abortion advocates and international bodies have been pressuring Chile to decriminalize abortion — claiming that Chile’s 1989 law prohibiting abortion is increasing the maternal mortality rate because women must be turning to unsafe and illegal abortion as an alternative. However, a study of statistical data from 1957 through 2007 in Chile was released this week, which dispels this myth about abortion and maternal mortality.
The Chilean study found that maternal mortality rates actually decreased by 69.2 percent in the 14 years after abortion was made illegal — dropping from 41.3 to [...]

Anna Franzonello of AUL penned an op-ed for The Washington Times on 5/8/2012 on sex-selection abortion.
An excerpt is below:
When it comes to feminist goals, working to end sex-selection abortions should be common ground for all sides. It is a real war on women, costing the lives of girls simply because they are girls. While mainstream American values reject gender-based killings as patently offensive, in this war on women in the womb, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are on the side of abortion-trumps-all.
Planned Parenthood believes that it is the subject of an undercover investigation on sex-selection abortions, an investigation similar [...]

Mary Harned of AUL writes at The Corner at NRO about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signing a bill into law that would ban public funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
An excerpt:
Last week, Arizona — which has several laws in effect that prevent public funding for abortions — took a bold step to further ensure that taxpayer dollars are not bankrolling the abortion industry in that state.
House Bill 2800, signed by Governor Jan Brewer on Friday, provides that neither the state nor any political subdivision of the state “may . . . enter into a contract with or [...]

AUL President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest was quoted by the media at a vigil outside the White House.
From the report:
Several protesters were arrested outside the White House today while lobbying the president for help for Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese attorney and human rights activist who gained international attention for exposing the brutality of his government’s one-child policy.
[...]
“We came out for peaceful demonstrations for Chen Guangcheng and now, the fact that this is a completely peaceful protest with people praying in front of the White House, they’ve arrested people – taken them away, put handcuffs on them behind their [...]

AUL’s Vice President of External Operations Jeanneane Maxon testified before a New Hampshire Senate Committee and was quoted in the media.
From the Manchester Union Leader:
The committee, however, voted to support HCR 31, which commends “the work of pregnancy care centers in New Hampshire and across the United States.”
Pregnancy care centers offer pregnant women ultrasounds, counseling and support with the goal of steering them away from getting abortions. There are centers in Concord, Manchester, Nashua and Keene.
Such resolutions are not binding, but they convey an official message to the President and Congress.
[...]
The pregnancy center resolution was meant to honor the [...]

Politico reports that the Obama administration has hired a spokesman from Planned Parenthood at the Department of Health and Human Services:
If the Obama administration was already on bad terms with abortion opponents, it’s not going to improve relations by hiring Planned Parenthood’s former spokesman for a job at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Tait Sye, Planned Parenthood’s former media director, has joined HHS as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, HHS made public Friday. He’ll have the public health portfolio — an area where you can be pretty sure abortion and contraception issues will come up.
Sye, who led the [...]

Daniel McConchie of AUL is quoted by Minnesota Public Radio:
Abortion opponents say many lawmakers believe placing restrictions on abortion should be a priority.
Last year states passed a record number of laws restricting abortion, said Daniel McConchie, vice president of government affairs for Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group. He said legislative activity on abortion has dropped this year, but not as much as he expected.
“We have seen somewhat of a decrease, but not a significant decrease in the amount of activity, in part because there’s still a lot of things these legislators are looking at doing,” he said.
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AUL’s Anna Franzonello authored an editorial in Roll Call today.
An excerpt:
Though the deck seemed stacked from the beginning, pro-life groups still mounted an effort to keep coverage for life-ending drugs and devices from being forced on nearly all Americans perversely under the guise of necessary “preventive” health care for women.
Never formally invited by the IOM to present, pro-life organizations — including Americans United for Life — attended and spoke up during the public comments portion of every open IOM committee meeting to urge the panel against including life-ending drugs and devices in the mandate.
At every meeting, the IOM panel was [...]

LifeSiteNews has a story on pro-life legislation in state legislative sessions in 2011 that quotes Jeanneane Maxon of AUL:
According to Jeanneane Maxon of Americans United for Life, there are even more waiting in the wings this year, with 337 pro-life bills under consideration in 41 states.
Although that’s a 25% decrease over the last year, Maxon said that one reason for the slowdown is that several states are holding no sessions in the election year, and some are having budget-only sessions.
Click here to read the whole story.

CitizenLink quoted Daniel McConchie of AUL in a story this past Friday:
On Monday, a California Senate committee will vote on a bill seeking to allow midwives, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to perform abortions — and life advocates say this weekend is the best window of opportunity to stifle the effort.
SB 1338, sponsored by Sen. Christine Kehoe of San Diego, will be coming up for a vote at 1:30 p.m. PDT in the Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.
California is “the first state that we know of that’s ever looking at rescinding and actually decreasing the standard of care that [...]

An excerpt from LifeSiteNews on Historic First: Governor Brewer Signs Landmark Ban on Late-Term Abortions Based on Americans United for Life Model Legislation:
According to Americans United for Life, although seven states have similar fetal pain laws, Arizona’s is the first to ban such late-term abortions also because of the invasive procedure’s risk to the mother’s health.
Americans United for Life (AUL) President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest commended Gov. Brewer for signing the law, which was based on AUL model legislation
“Arizona is leading the nation in enacting this new law that shows concern for both mother and child. The abortion industry’s [...]

AUL’s William Saunders and Anna Franzonello blog at LifeNews.com:
In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an “interim final rule” on “preventive services” that provided a very narrow “religious employer” exemption to its mandated coverage for life-ending drugs and devices such as the abortion-inducing drug ella. At the time, HHS justified its decision to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s (APA) public comment period because such an “opportunity for public comment would be impractical and contrary to the public interest.” In other words, not needed and not worth the time.
However, that rationale was refuted by admissions HHS made [...]

LifeNews.com reports:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a pro-life bill into law today to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
House members passed the bill by a 37-22 vote and abortions after that time period would not be allowed except in very rare cases of medical emergency. The bill also requires abortion facilities to allow women to have an ultrasound of their unborn baby at least 24 hours prior to having the abortion. In many cases women change their minds about a planned abortion after seeing the images of their developing child.
Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest commended Brewer and [...]

In today’s edition of The Washington Times, Daniel McConchie and Mary Harned of AUL penned an op-ed entitled, “Obamacare abortion mandate withers: More states opting out of extremist liberal plan.”
An excerpt:
The Department of Health and Human Services has set in motion the Obamacare abortion premium mandate, a provision that permits insurance plans that cover abortions to participate in state exchanges and requires all enrollees in those plans – even those with religious and moral objections to abortion – to pay a separate monthly premium to cover abortions. But many states are diligently passing laws to stop it.
The administration’s health care [...]

On April 2, the Huffington Post ran an article titled:  Obamacare ‘Abortion Surcharge’:  The Facts Behind the Rumor.  In the article, the author attempts to rebut assertions made by pro-life Americans about the “abortion premium mandate” nestled within the web of anti-life provisions in the Affordable Care Act.  However, as explained below, pro-life outrage over this provision is justified.
Below is a point-by-point rebuttal of the claims in Huffington Post:

Huffington Post: “Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) recently kicked a bees’ nest of Catholics and anti-abortion activists when he asserted that Obamacare contains an ‘abortion surcharge and a secrecy clause’ that forces [...]

A piece in the April 19, 2012 issue of The New Republic discusses Dr. Charmaine Yoest of AUL. The story, by Eliza Gray, includes the following sub-headline: One pro-life leader’s savvy strategy.
An excerpt:
AUL appears to have two key things going for it: first, a pragmatic philosophy about how to restrict abortion (“We must address our culture as it is and not as we would like it to be,” declares the group’s mission statement); and, second, its charming, attractive, charismatic president, Charmaine Yoest. Watching Yoest debate the Virginia law on PBS, I was struck by the way she framed her arguments. [...]

An excerpt from an op-ed in the March 28, 2012 edition of The Washington Times:
When the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on the constitutionality of various provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, one of the most blatantly unconstitutional provisions didn’t get any attention in oral arguments or the press. At least it hasn’t so far. The issue in question is the abortion premium mandate. Beginning in 2014, this mandate will force millions of Americans, including those who are pro-life, to pay directly into an abortion fund. How does this work? This illustration paints the picture:
You [...]

AUL’s Daniel McConchie blogs at LifeSiteNews:
This week the federal government moved ahead with regulations that will require everyone in the soon-to-be-established state exchanges who are in an insurance plan that includes elective abortion coverage to pay a separate monthly premium from their own pockets to fund abortion. However, at the same time, South Dakota became the thirteenth state to stand up and say no.
Governor Dennis Daugaard has signed into law HB 1185, a bill sponsored by state representative Jon Hansen and drafted from an AUL model bill on the subject. So far Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, [...]

An excerpt from OneNewsNow:
According to a pro-life attorney, most participants in ObamaCare insurance exchanges will officially be footing the bill for abortion.
Mary Harned of Americans United for Life (AUL) tells OneNewsNow the Department of Health and Human Services has finalized rules for state exchanges, and they do cover abortion. The individual mandate includes an “abortion premium mandate,” which requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay a separate premium from their own pockets to fund abortion.
“So many individuals who, either by themselves or through their employers, are enrolled in insurance plans within these exchanges [...]

The Hill quotes Dr. Charmaine Yoest of AUL:
But its decision to cut off Planned Parenthood has undeniable political implications — for both sides of the abortion debate. Abortion-rights opponents cheered Komen’s move, chalking up another victory in their push to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
“Breast health is not Planned Parenthood’s core competency,” said Charmaine Yoest, president and chief executive of Americans United for Life. “They specialize in abortions.”
Yoest said it’s too early to tell whether the Komen announcement will embolden conservatives to pressure other organizations to break with Planned Parenthood. But the move will definitely work to Komen’s benefit, she said.
“From a [...]

CitizenLink
The year 2011 was great for the pro-life movement Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Arkansas.
According to an annual ranking released Thursday by Americans United for Life (AUL), on the eve of the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, those are the most pro-life states in the nation.
In fact, it was a banner year for the pro-life movement all across the country, as 32 states introduced 86 bills based on AUL model legislation. Even better, 47 states considered 460 pro-life bills, ultimately adopting more than 70 of them.
“As the legal arm of the pro-life movement, the AUL legal team has created [...]

From The Hill’s Healthwatch blog:
On the other side of the issue, Americans United for Life (AUL) released a similar report that draws an entirely different conclusion.
“As the legal arm of the pro-life movement, the AUL legal team has created the legal architecture for reversing Roe v. Wade,” AUL President and CEO Charmaine Yoest said in a statement. “The states are preparing for the day after Roe.  And as the Life List documents, we’re seeing tremendous gains in defending life in law.”

An op-ed in today’s Washington Times by Denise Burke of AUL is entitled Dead wrong
- Nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, states seek to end tyranny of abortion industry.
An excerpt:
Last year was a bad year for the abortion industry. Each passing month seemed to expose more of the industry’s “dirty laundry” and, in direct response, state legislatures enacted a record number of laws intended to put an end to the tyranny of abortion-on-demand and to the American taxpayers’ unwitting complicity in it.
January opened with undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood employees appearing to aid and abet purported sex traffickers in [...]

Paul Wilson of NewsBusters writes about the lack of coverage of Planned Parenthood’s scandals and congressional investigation by the major television networks.
The excerpt below is a section focusing on AUL’s report and the subsequent investigation of Planned Parenthood started by Rep. Cliff Stearns:
Even a congressional probe into the finances of Planned Parenthood could not spark the networks’ interest.
Americans United for Life (AUL) published a report on July 7, 2011, alleging that Planned Parenthood engaged in potentially illegal activity – including the systematic cover-up of sex crimes and misuse of federal funds to support abortion.
The AUL report, titled “The Case for [...]

Fox News
Pro-life groups say they were pleasantly surprised by Sebelius’ decision.
“I think it’s kind of fascinating because we’re so used to seeing the abortion lobby win on things like this,” says Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL).
But pro-life advocates aren’t exactly celebrating. They fear the pro-choice community will continue to file lawsuits and publicly pressure the administration until it grants unlimited access to the morning after pill.
“We hope the administration will hold strong against that,” Yoest said. Sebelius has indicated that the issue may be revisited.
World Magazine
In this instance, pro-life groups had good things to [...]

Christian Examiner’s story quotes AUL’s Mailee Smith:
Mailee Smith, an attorney with the pro-life Americans United for Life, said there is an obvious explanation to Geron’s decision.
“There simply is no money in research that yields no results,” Mailee Smith wrote at the Americans United for Life website. ” … Clearly, investors don’t want to put money into research that will not pay off.”
She expressed hope that more researchers will begin examining non-embryonic forms of research.
“We can hope it is the bell toll for unethical and unproductive embryo stem cell research,” Mailee Smith wrote. “But it will not have a devastating impact [...]

From Healthwatch, the healthcare blog for The Hill:
Anti-abortion groups are gearing up to the ensure that Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) lives up to his campaign promise to be the most pro-life Speaker in history.
[...]
The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, introduced in July by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), would create a government-wide statutory prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion. Abortion opponents say the legislation is needed to ensure the healthcare reform law can’t cover the cost of abortions.
[...]
Americans United for Life President and CEO Charmaine Yoest is attending Boehner’s swearing [...]

The following editorial appeared in The Washington Times on November 22:
It’s monstrous to suggest abortions should be easier for minors to procure than other surgical procedures. Enter the American Civil Liberties Union. After losing in federal court, the ACLU has found new ways to delay a 1995 Illinois law requiring parental (or legal guardian) notification before subjecting minors to abortion. Americans United for Life has come to the rescue with a new “friend of the court” brief.
American law doesn’t ordinarily confer full autonomy on minors. As the “Encyclopedia of Everyday Law” explains, “In general, for most medical procedures, the [...]

Mailee Smith of AUL was quoted last week in a Fox News story entitled, “Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Disorders in Fetus“:
A simple blood test may one day become a safer alternative for checking if an unborn baby has Down syndrome or other disorders, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The test, which takes a blood sample from a pregnant woman to examine the DNA of the fetus, would cost as little as $36, and could be available within four years, according to the report.
It would provide an inexpensive and much less invasive way to detect many genetic abnormalities in fetuses, but it [...]

Last week, a Politico story, entitled “Military shifts on reproductive health” quoted Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President & CEO of AUL.
An excerpt:
“They’re using the military as a wedge and a way to implement their agenda,” Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, said of her opponents. “I see them being very craven in looking to use the military to put the stamp of approval of federal government on abortion.”
Click here to read the whole story.

“Abortion Foes Advance Cause at State Level“, an article in today’s New York Times, discusses state legislation, including AUL’s efforts to help states opt out of taxpayer-funded abortion.
An excerpt:
“Ninety percent of pro-life legislation happens at the states,” said Daniel S. McConchie, vice president for government affairs at Americans United for Life, which opposes abortion. “While Congress is the main focus of attention for so many people in the country, state legislatures have greatest impact on daily lives, and life-related legislation is no exception.”
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