Attorney Catherine Glenn Foster serves as President and CEO of Americans United for Life. AUL’s legal strategists have been involved in every pro-life
case before the U.S. Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade. Under Foster’s leadership, AUL pursues and refines a mother-child strategy that looks at the
interests and vulnerabilities of both, protecting them from abortion industry abuses.
Foster has litigated precedent-setting constitutional questions, abortion and maternal health, health and safety regulations, euthanasia and assisted suicide,
denial of medical care, First Amendment rights, genetic engineering issues, the Freedom of Information Act, and more.
Foster has testified before and advised the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Select
Investigative Panel and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and other federal and state bodies and representatives. She and her award-winning
work have appeared extensively in national media.
Foster spent seven years as litigation counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. She then founded a law practice focusing on respect for the sanctity of
innocent human life. She also led Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA as Executive Director.
Foster serves on the boards of And Then There Were None, Christian Legal Society D.C. Metro Chapter, and Rockville Women’s Center, as well as on the advisory
board of the Center for Bioethics &, Human Dignity.
Foster earned her J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center and also holds an M.A. in French from the University of South Florida, and a B.A. in History
and French from Berry College.
Foster is admitted to the bar in Virginia and Washington D.C., as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st, 5th, 8th, and
9th Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is an inaugural member of the Federalist Society Founders Club,
Senior Fellow in Legal Policy at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, and a fellow with the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.
Readings &, Resources
- Americans United for Life: aul.org
- Catherine Glenn Foster on AUL: aul.org/about/leadership/catherine-glenn-foster
- “I was pressured to abort my children. For my first baby, I gave in,” by Catherine Glenn Foster in USA Today
- Fr. Paul Sullins’ study about the psychological harm to women from aborting wanted pregnancies www.ruthinstitute.org/ruth-speaks-out/aborting-the-wanted-child
- Dr J Show interview with Fr Paul Sullins on abortions committed on wanted children
- Dr J Show interview with famed pro-life OB-GYN Dr. Thomas Hilgers
- Papageno effect–from The Magic Flute
