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09/04/2026

AUL's Shaohannah Tavares wrote for the Washington Examiner about her survival of China's one-child policy that left her abandoned in an orphanage and later adopted into a loving American family.

That same hope of adoption for other Chinese children ended two years ago today when China shut down international adoptions, leaving nearly 300 already-matched children abandoned and without families.

Many have special needs. Their American families have been waiting for years. Congress and 33 governors asked Biden to intervene. Nothing happened.

Children should not be political pawns.

President Trump has a chance this month, ahead of Xi’s White House visit, to demand that China finish these pending cases and let these kids come home.

Read the full article at https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4712288/china-international-adoption-ban-trapped-orphans/

09/03/2026

AUL's CEO John Mize spoke with WORLD about Trump’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration nominee, Dr. Heidi Overton, and the stalled safety review of the abortion pill. Swipe to see what’s at stake. ➡️

09/02/2026

AUL's Gavin Oxley wrote for the Washington Examiner on why Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald J. Trump's new pick for U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, is the right person for the job, walking the "bright red line between science and the agency's political nature.

Overton previously cited data showing 1 in 5 women suffer adverse events and called abortion corrosive because it extinguishes innocent human life. A recent poll found 7 in 10 Americans want in-person dispensing restored.

Read "The (Heidi) Overton Window" at https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/4706595/heidi-overton-fda-mifepristone-regulations/

09/01/2026

▶️ POISON PILLS EP 6: Imagine you’re pregnant. Then your body turns on you.

Vomiting that won’t stop. Brutal cramping. Then the bleeding. Day after day. You go to the ER terrified something is wrong with the baby.
What doctors were told is worse than a complication.

In 2024, Gig Harbor nurse practitioner David Coots secretly put abortion pills inside his pregnant girlfriend during s*x without her knowledge or consent. He later admitted they were misoprostol, the kind of pills that cause miscarriage.

Coots pleaded guilty to assault and witness tampering. His wife pleaded guilty to trying to pay the victim to stay quiet.

This is what happens when abortion pills get easier to get.

For 20 years after FDA approval, these pills required a doctor visit and in-person dispensing. In 2023, those guardrails were stripped.

And women and their babies became the victims as a result.

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08/31/2026

Protect Life for Generations 💚

August is Make-A-Will Month, and one of the most practical ways you can safeguard your family and pass on your pro-life values is by creating a will.

With AUL’s free online tool, you can complete a secure legal will in about 20 minutes.

Take a few minutes today to protect the people and principles that matter most.

➡️ https://app.lifelegacy.io/wills?partner=aul

08/28/2026

Meet Sarah MacKay, one of our talented 2026 Summer Fellows at Americans United for Life!

Sarah is a rising third-year student at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, where she serves as Chair of the Regent University Moot Court Board. She previously served on Law Review and as a Property Teaching Assistant.

She earned dual degrees from the University of Illinois — a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. Before law school, Sarah taught sixth-grade English at CAROLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL in Virginia and worked as a paralegal at a mid-sized Virginia law firm.

Outside of work, she enjoys working puzzles, playing flute, and spending time with her 6-month-old daughter.

Welcome to the team, Sarah! We’re grateful to have you.

08/27/2026

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, Chairman of U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republicans, released a new report exposing the failure of abortion drug manufacturers to conduct prescriber oversight, endangering women. Federal regulations have been dismissed, and women are paying the price.

Read the HELP Committee report: https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chairman-cassidy-exposes-lack-of-action-by-chemical-abortion-drug-companies-endangering-mothers-in-new-report

Like and share to expose what the abortion drug companies are doing to shirk responsibility and profit from their harm to women.

08/26/2026

▶️ POISON PILLS EP 5: This was not “choice.”

In 2024, an Ohio woman says her boyfriend, UTMC medical resident Hassan Abass, held her down and forced crushed abortion pills into her mouth after she told him she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby.

She tried to call 911. He took her phone and hung up the call. She drove herself to the ER. She was bleeding. The baby did not survive.

Abbas’s medical license was suspended, and he later pleaded no contest to four felonies, including unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, identity fraud, and deception to obtain a dangerous drug.

With fewer safeguards and unregulated mail-order access, abortion pills become a weapon in the hands of abusive men.

That is how this happens.

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08/25/2026

THE RIGHT CHOICE: AUL's CEO, John Mize, was interviewed by Fox News about President Trump's nominee for U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, Dr. Heidi Overton.

"I think she's going to bring objectivity to the issue of mifepristone in a way that will expose this drug for the damage it causes women...

I firmly believe she understands the clinical implications of taking a drug with a black box warning and now shipping it in the mail."

Read the full article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-life-ceo-predicts-trump-fda-nominee-could-bring-renewed-scrutiny-abortion-drug-risks

08/24/2026

This back-to-school season, we’re reminded why the pro-life movement exists: so that more children get the chance to grow up, go to school, work hard, and become who they were created to be.

Every child deserves a chance at a future. Let’s keep fighting for it.

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