Americans United for Life

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'''Americans United for Life''' is an [[anti-abortion]] [[think tank]] that vomits out bills designed to limit a woman's ability to access [[abortion]] services.

Like the [[Discovery Institute]] on [[evolution]], with each failure with the voters or failure in courts, the legal hacks at Americans United for Life [[model legislation|tweak the proposed bills]], making each successive bill slightly more likely to pass.

==Examples==

*''The Woman's Ultrasound Right to Know Act'':  Virginia and Texas's pre-abortion screening with trans-vaginal ultrasounds is one of the most successful gems of AUL.

* ''Abortion Inducing Drug Safety Act'':  Bans "off label use of drugs which induce abortions."  Both Ohio<ref>Jodi Jacobson.  "[http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/07/01/ohio-supreme-court-prohibits-offlabel-use-ru486-and-denies-release-clinic-records Ohio Supreme Court Prohibits Off-Label Use of RU486 and Denies Release of Clinic Records]."  ''RH Reality Check''.  2009 July 1.</ref> and Oklahoma<ref>In May 2012, a state judge [http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/19/oklahoma-judge-overturns-law-limiting-unsafe-abortion-drug struck the law down] as being unconstitutional according to the Oklahoma constitution.</ref> have passed this law, prohibiting "off label use" of any drug with the intent to cause an abortion.  This includes the commonly used, scientifically, and medically accepted anti-abortion drug Mifeprestone.  Roughly the same bill was also passed in Ohio.

Many, if not most of their anti-abortion proposed legislation is named with "women centric" and "health centric" names, as they attempt to tell everyone that these laws are really simply ways to protect women's health.

*''Women's Health Protection Act (Abortion Clinic Regulation)'':  [[TRAP]] law(s) which determine how many physicians must be in a clinic at all times, how wide halls and doors must be, and the specific qualifications for a clinic to provide abortions come directly from Americans United for Life.

*'' Abortion Patients' Enhanced Safety Act'':  Claims that since doctors providing abortions (apparently) do little else, and that the patient and the doctor do not have a long term relationship as such (sure, in 2012, when doctors spend on average 7 minutes with patients), abortion clinics must be defined as ambulatory '''surgical''' centers, and must have the staff and equipment necessary for any surgical center.<ref group=note>No, it is not clear how the fact that you spend little time with your doctor means it's a surgical center.  It does truly baffle the mind.</ref>

*''Coercive Abuse Against Mothers Prevention Act'':  Since women are so often coerced into abortion, this law would make it mandatory for anyone who even suspects a woman seeking abortion was coerced, must report it to "the authorities."  Ooh, ah...  The catch, though, is that it makes it a crime for a doctor to have performed the abortion, or be liable for civil damages, even if he did not suspect much less know of the abuse.

==External links==

*[http://www.aul.org/legislative-resources/order-model-legislation Order your very own bill, today!]

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[[Category:Anti-abortion activists]]
[[Category:Think tanks]]

Categories: Anti-abortion activists, Think tanks