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LATEST BLOG POSTS
Americans United for Life Celebrates Major Victory for First Amendment Conscience Rights of All Americans
February 22, 2012
Federal court rules that the State of Washington cannot force pharmacists to dispense life-ending drugs
WASHINGTON, D.C. (02-22-12) — Today a federal district court in Washington ruled that the state cannot force pharmacists to dispense life-ending drugs in violation of their religious beliefs. The holding guts the 2007 Washington Board of Pharmacy rules requiring pharmacies [...]
- Abortion Proponents Argue Against Medical Standards of Care
- The Alabama Supreme Court released an important decision in Hamilton v. Scott today.
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.
