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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake regarding a rule announced Friday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that redefines “sex” in federal healthcare nondiscrimination law to add gender identity: “The Biden administration’s new healthcare mandate is a vast overreach that turns medicine upside-down. Congress never voted to redefine sex in the Affordable Care Act to add gender identity. The rule harms families and children by promoting dangerous, life-altering ‘gender-transition’ procedures that remove healthy body ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed on behalf of several pro-life and religious medical associations Friday in State of Oklahoma v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. The case involves a Biden administration rule that requires recipients of federal Title X family-planning funds to counsel and refer women for abortions, even though multiple federal laws protect healthcare providers from being forced to ...

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 attorneys filed Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on behalf of Christian Employers Alliance in Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois. A district court judge misinterpreted a provision in the Affordable Care Act to force health insurance plans to cover dangerous procedures that deny biological reality and seek to alter a person’s body to match their gender identity: “Those struggling ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed on behalf of several pro-life and religious medical associations Friday in State of Tennessee v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The case involves a Biden administration rule that requires recipients of Title X funds to counsel and refer for abortions: “The rights of conscience are at the core of our constitutional freedoms, and forcing medical professionals to violate their ...

ADF attorneys favorably settle lawsuit on behalf of two churches, three religious schools, pregnancy center network

ADF attorneys represent Christian Employers Alliance

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman, director of regulatory practice, regarding a rule the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Tuesday, Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal Statutes: “Americans shouldn’t be forced to violate their ethical and religious beliefs. Yet, every year, countless medical practitioners needlessly suffer threats to their livelihoods and affronts to their faith just for asserting their rights to conscience and religious freedom. In its rule, HHS suggests it will continue ...

5th Circuit blocks abuse of federal law, rules to protect emergency rooms from govt overreach

Free-speech advocates unite in support of Masterpiece Cakeshop

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following oral arguments Thursday