Date:
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 1/13/15 12:18 PM
Americans United for Life today released its annual report about the most prolife and proabortion states
when it comes to passing prolife legislation that protects women and unborn children. In a replay of last
year’s best and worst, Louisiana was named most prolife and Washington most proabortion.
Americans United for Life released the 2015 results after analyzing progress made legislatively or in
litigation in 2014. The Life List takes into account the 50 states’ overall advances since Roe v. Wade
toward rebuilding a culture of life, including events of the last year.
After Louisiana and it’s first place ranking, the most prolife states are Mississippi, Kansas, Oklahoma, and
Arkansas.
For the 6th year in a row, Washington ranked as the worst state for life for failing to protect women from an
unmonitored and underregulated abortion industry, followed by Vermont, Oregon, California and New
Jersey.
“In the last 4 years, states have enacted more than 200 prolife laws protecting women and girls from
abortion industry abuses,” said AUL President Charmaine Yoest. “Abortion advocates thought that an antilife
blockade in the U.S. Senate would mean an end to prolife victories. But equipped with tools like
Defending Life, legislators and prolife Americans worked together at the state level nationwide to protect
women and girls from an abortion industry that puts profits over people.”
Although Louisiana ranked first, AUL indicated Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona, Texas, and Indiana
performed the best in 2014 in terms of advancing prolife legislation.
AUL also examined whether state were protecting women from dangerous abuses in the abortion industry.
After Kermit Gosnell, more Americans are aware of the fact that the abortion industry puts women’s lives
and health at risk with abortions and by not following the basic health and safety laws and standards that
legitimate medical centers are held accountable for following.
Only nine states offer strong legal protections for women; 16 states provide moderate protection, 12 states
offer minimal protection and sadly, 13 states are ranked as dangerous for their failure to regulate the
abortion industry by holding them accountable for the conditions they create that can endanger women.
“Prolife model legislation has been a game changer,” said Dr. Yoest. “New in Defending Life this year are
enhanced protections in AUL’s enforcement model, part of the Women’s Protection Project, which provides
families with the legal means to hold dangerous abortion clinics and deadly abortionists accountable.
Consistently, AUL has developed innovative and constitutionally sound laws to protect women and their
unborn babies. That trend continues today. The abortion industry should be put on notice that they will not
be allowed to keep profits high and standards low.”
Here is the ranking of the most prolife states:
