Just heard on The Last Word that ALEC-linked Americans United for Life is behind NC legislation

[highplainsdem]

Joy Reid brought it up.

Here's an April 2012 article from AlterNet about the group:

Meet ALEC's Equally Despicable Anti-Choice Cousin -- AUL

Anti-ALEC campaigns have been a huge success for progressives so far. But with the spotlight shining so strongly on ALEC, many Americans may not realize that ALEC isn't the only organization of its kind. Another group that's been responsible for plenty of alarming legislation is Americans United for Life -- ALEC's anti-choice cousin.

From the pushback against healthcare reform to the efforts to delegitimize Planned Parenthood to the late-term abortion battles of the late aughts, AUL's imprimatur is almost always there. Each year, the group puts out a publication, Defending Life, which in the group's own words, "combines our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators, policy makers, the media, and interested Americans."

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If AUL is behind many of the recent anti-choice legislative attacks, who exactly is behind AUL? Jezebel's Erin Gloria Ryan recently took a look at the group's staff roster. Among the team members is former Mike Huckabee staffer Charmaine Yoest, who serves as AUL's president and CEO, and Abby Johnson, "a former Planned Parenthood employee-turned frothing anti-choice advocate who has toured the country claiming that Planned Parenthood is in cahoots with Satan." Johnson is AUL's senior policy adviser.

Yoest has another claim to infamy as well: She is " the woman who got Komen to defund Planned Parenthood," as a Washington Post headline described her.

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[KoKo]

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[highplainsdem]

3. Thanks!

[lonestarnot]

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[Dawson Leery]

4. Continue the boycott of the Komen Foundation.

[KoKo]

5. Kick