Defending Life 2015: 10th Anniversary Edition

Defending Life: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life.


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Each year, AUL publishes Defending Life: A State-by-State Legal Guide to Abortion, Bioethics, and the End of Life. 

The 10th Anniversary Edition ofDefending Life, which features a foreword by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, was released on January 13, 2015. 

This annual resource, dubbed "the playbook" of model legislation, combines more than 50 pieces of our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators.

Developed under the leadership of AUL VP of Legal Affairs Denise Burke, Defending Life 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Forward 
• From the President
• Facilitating Roe’s Unraveling

TEN YEARS OF DEFENDING LIFE

• Accumulating Victories, Building Momentum, and Advancing a Culture of Life in America
• Accumulating Legislative Victories and Laying the Groundwork for Roe’s Demise
• AUL Educates Americans on Abortion’s 
• Harm to Women

STATE OF THE STATES

• Ten Best and Worst States for Life
• AUL’s 2015 State Rankings
• State Report Cards

AUL 2015 MODEL LEGISLATION

• Women’s Protection Project
• Abortion
• Legal Recognition and Protection of the Unborn
• Bioethics
• End of Life
• Freedom of Conscience

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