Caring For Both: A Curbside Consult Series
Medical professionals answer your questions about what it means to provide evidence-based, life-affirming healthcare to both pregnant women and their preborn children. Their insights can serve as a pro-life second opinion, or "curbside consult", for you as you face ethically challenging patient care scenarios. We upload new episodes every Thursday. Brought to you by the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Caring For Both: A Curbside Consult Series
Pro-Life Laws: Pre-Roe vs. Post-Dobbs | Clarke Forsythe, Americans United for Life
Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life compares & contrasts state-level pro-life laws that were in place before Roe and after Dobbs.
Clarke Forsythe serves as Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life and is author of two books about the infamous Supreme Court decision, Pushing Roe v. Wade Over the Brink: The Battle for America’s Heart, the Human Right to Life, and a Future Full of Hope as well as Abuse of Discretion: The Inside Story of Roe v. Wade. Clarke has served on the AUL team since 1985, including six years as Vice President and General Counsel, overseeing their nationwide litigation and legislation strategy, and ten years as President. Clarke has argued cases before federal and state courts and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. He is also a prolific writer on pro-life policy issues.
Further reading:
The States' Response to Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Center: https://aul.org/2025/06/25/states-response-to-dobbs/#:~:text=Following%20the%20Dobbs%20decision%2C%20over,to%20save%20the%20mother's%20life.
Medically Necessary Abortion After Dobbs: What, if Anything, Has Changed? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4909792
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