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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Emilie Kao, vice president of advocacy strategy, regarding a letter the Promise to America’s Parents Coalition sent Monday to California Gov. Gavin Newsom urging him to stand up for the safety and protection of children by vetoing SB 107. This dangerous piece of legislation would give California courts the ability to strip parents in other states of their parental rights if their child travels to California to obtain life-altering and irreversible surgeries. It also ignores the established authority of the other ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Greg Baylor, director of the ADF Center for Religious Schools, regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit’s decision Wednesday in Buettner-Hartsoe v. Concordia Preparatory School, in which the court concluded that a charity or nonprofit’s 501(c)(3) status does not constitute receiving “federal financial assistance”: “The 4th Circuit confirmed what has always been true: a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status is not government funding and thus does not trigger multiple burdensome federal laws under which ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF filed with the Texas Supreme Court in State of Texas v. Loe, in which the state of Texas is defending its law that protects children from unproven drug treatments that risk permanent harm: “Texas rightly enacted the Minors Protection Act to protect the health and welfare of all children—no matter how they identify. Injecting children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria is unsafe ...

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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Wednesday with the Iowa Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds, urging the court to allow the state’s fetal heartbeat law to take effect: “States have the strongest possible interest in protecting the most fundamental of our human rights—the right to life. Iowans are eager to affirm that life is a human right, which is why the legislature has passed the fetal heartbeat law multiple times, trying its best to ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp, director of the ADF Center for Legislative Advocacy, regarding Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s signing Wednesday of SB 466, a bill that protects freedom of conscience for teachers: “No one should be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep a job, yet we continue to see growing instances of teachers being confronted with that ultimatum. Many teachers can’t in good conscience speak messages that they do not believe to be true, and that includes addressing students by pronouns inconsistent with a ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a brief ADF attorneys filed Monday with the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Anderson v. Thrifty White Pharmacy. ADF attorneys represent Minnesota pharmacist George Badeaux who was sued because of his conscientious objection to dispensing a drug that can cause an abortion, an action that violates his religious beliefs: “No one should be forced to dispense drugs that can cause an abortion. As we explain in our brief, Mr. Badeaux told the customer his ...

ADF attorney argued in support of Massachusetts’ prohibition on physician-assisted suicide

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on behalf of The Justice Foundation in Regino v. Staley supporting the right of parents to make decisions about how their children are raised: “Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, care, and education of their children. Chico Unified School District administrators violated this right when they began to treat an 11 ...

ADF attorneys represent beauty pageant in victorious ruling preserving production’s ability to advance opportunities for women