Americans United for Life
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Founded in 1971, and based in Chicago, Illinois, Americans United for Life (AUL) is a is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization "whose vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected in law." Its major goals are:[1]
AUL President Charmaine Yoest disagreed with U.S. News and World Report religion writer Dan Gilgoff, when he said Yoest was using the "octomom", Nadya Suleman, as a "poster girl." Yoest said her comment "Her octuplets are better off alive and at home with a loving (if troubled) mother than if they were about to be dissected in a laboratory" was focused solely on the embryos themselves. Quoting Yoest comment that Suleman "provided an easy example currently in the news for people to visualize a relatively abstract concept," Gilgoff wrote "Rather than providing moral clarity on reproductive controversies, though, the octo-mom shows how morally messy they really are."[2] References
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