[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: AUL release ranking of top 10 best & worst pro-life states

Wed Jan 16 18:48:54 MST 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 16 Jan 2008 AD #2

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    Americans United for Life Releases Ranking of Pro-life States
    <http://blog.aul.org/2008/01/15/americans-united-for-life-releases-ranking-of-pro-life-states/>

*By Matthew Eppinette* | January 15, 2008

*Americans United for Life Releases Ranking of Pro-life States
Michigan at Top, Oregon at Bottom*

*January 15, 2008 -- Chicago, IL* -- Americans United for Life (AUL) 
today released its fifth annual ranking of the most and least pro-life 
states based on laws in the states. For the third year in a row, 
Michigan topped the list, followed by Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, 
and Kansas. 2008 State Rankings 
<http://blog.aul.org/2008/01/15/americans-united-for-life-releases-ranking-of-pro-life-states/?p=11>

"These states have made great strides in protecting women and their 
children from the negative consequences of abortion," said Denise M. 
Burke, AUL's Vice President & Legal Director.

While AUL's criteria covers each state's treatment of all life issues, 
the final ranking depends largely on each state's enactment of prudent 
and well-supported laws that fence in the abortion license granted by 
the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1973 decision, /Roe v. Wade/. Among the 
laws that AUL looks for are informed consent, parental involvement for 
minors, abortion clinic regulations, and funding limitations on the use 
of public monies for abortion.

"Until all the pieces are in place to make the overruling of /Roe/ a 
realistic possibility and until the truth has replaced misinformation 
about abortion, " said Clarke D. Forsythe, AUL's President, "laws that 
put fences around the abortion license and highlight the negative impact 
of abortion on women are imperative. And those laws are being passed in 
the 50 states. "

The ranking also seeks to answer the question: Thirty-five years after 
/Roe/, are we making progress to restore a culture of life in America?

"We are making progress, state by state and law by law. In states that 
have passed these types of laws, the abortion rates have declined by up 
to 20% over the past 10 years, " responds Burke. "Further, these laws 
highlight the significant dangers--physical, psychological, and 
relational--posed by abortion."

"Once the scope of the negative impact of abortion on women is fully 
understood, support for most or all abortions will erode and a renewed 
culture of life will be within our grasp," continued Burke.

Added Forsythe, "Women need to be much better informed about the medical 
risks of abortion, and these common-sense laws seek to do that. "

The least protective states according to AUL were Oregon, California, 
Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont.

2008 State Rankings <http://www.aul.org/?p=11>

Evaluation Criteria (PDF) 
<http://www.aul.org/xm_client/client_documents/dl08/appendix/DL08EvaluationCriteria.pdf>

For more information about AUL's annual ranking, visit www.AUL.org 
<http://www.aul.org>

/*About /Defending Life 2008/*
//AUL's annual publication, /Defending Life 2008: Proven Strategies for 
a Pro-Life America/, is the definitive legal guide to abortion, 
bioethics, and the end of life.
Cutting through the murky cloud of media chatter and controversy, /Defending
Life/ provides clear, thoroughly researched, and accurate information 
and is available to anyone who wants to understand key pro-life issues 
and utilize proven legal strategies to address them./

/Defending Life 2008:/ http://www.aul.org/?p=Defending_Life

*About Americans United for Life*
/Americans United for Life (AUL) is a nonprofit, public-interest law and 
policy organization whose vision is a nation in which every human being 
is welcomed in life and protected in law. The first national pro-life 
organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life 
through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both 
the federal and state levels since 1971. The /Wall Street Journal/ has 
profiled AUL, and PBS's /Frontline/ program chronicled AUL's successful 
efforts in Mississippi./

Website: http://www.AUL.org <http://www.aul.org%3E/>

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