Posts Tagged Americans United for Life

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Texas abortion drug bill could mean more side effects and higher costs

By | 12.20.12 | 1:08 pm

A GOP lawmaker is looking to make Texas the latest state to restrict the use of abortion medications in a way that some experts warn could increase the drugs’ side effects while making them more expensive. More…

Group pushes more anti-abortion laws with sights on ‘Roe’

By | 02.29.12 | 10:44 am

The national anti-abortion-rights group behind Virginia’s controversial ultrasound bill last week released seven new bills it plans to push through state legislatures this year. More…

At CPAC, leaders urge steering birth control conversation toward abortion

By | 02.10.12 | 4:01 pm

Stop talking about birth control. That was the key message from some of the most prominent leaders of America’s anti-abortion movement, speaking Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference More…. During a talk on how to advance the movement through messaging, an all-female panel discussed the Obama administration’s birth-control-coverage mandate and

National anti-abortion rights group hires former Planned Parenthood director

By Ashley Lopez | 12.09.11 | 2:08 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion-rights group that has its sights set on Planned Parenthood, announced yesterday that the group has hired Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood employee turned high-profile anti-abortion advocate. More…

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AUL accused of using misleading testimony in report that led to Planned Parenthood investigation

By | 10.03.11 | 4:34 pm

Anti-abortion-rights organization Americans United for Life has started shopping around a new narrative in its continued effort to defund Planned Parenthood. This narrative eschews “abortion” and embraces “taxpayer” and “bipartisan.” More …

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Perry to co-chair gala for influential anti-abortion rights group

By | 08.15.11 | 2:50 pm

Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala More… for the influential anti-abortion rights policy group Americans United for Life, which was founded in 1971.

HHS decision to mandate contraception coverage renews action on ‘conscience-protection’ bills

By | 08.10.11 | 11:47 am

The day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in its list of preventive health services for women under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act More…, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced legislation intended to to allow health

Panel says recommendation to provide birth control coverage without co-pay is ‘evidenced based’

By | 07.20.11 | 4:52 pm

The Institute of Medicine’s recent recommendation to the U.S. Department of Health to include birth control services in a list of preventive services for women has incited controversy among anti-abortion rights advocates where there should not be, members of the IOM panel said at a National Press Club briefing Wednesday. More…