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Legal team defending California marriage amendment files final brief with U.S. Supreme Court

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake regarding a formal comment ADF submitted Friday urging the Biden administration to withdraw its proposed rule change to federal health privacy laws that disregards the value of human life and ignores biological reality by hampering the enforcement of state pro-life laws and laws that protect children from dangerous and life-altering medical procedures: “The Biden administration’s proposed rule would undermine state laws that protect expectant mothers and their unborn children from the harms of ...

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following hearing Tuesday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp, director of the ADF Center for Legislative Advocacy, regarding the North Carolina Legislature’s override Wednesday of three bills vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper: H. 574, a bill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams; H. 808, a bill that protects children from dangerous, life-altering “gender transition” medical procedures, and S. 49, a bill that protects parents’ rights and transparency in their ...

… Court allows doctors to support hospitals, staff in ACLU suit that seeks to force them to commit abortions Court … the court will hear arguments on whether to dismiss the ACLU’s lawsuit, which seeks to force Trinity Health and its … Senior Counsel Matt Bowman. “This is precisely what the ACLU is seeking to do. But forcing Catholic hospitals to …

… of any child the department could place in an applicant’s home, and Bates could not agree to this because of her faith. … who would be happy to grow up in a loving, Christian home like Jessica’s. We urge the court to remind the state of … rejected her application for failing to “meet the adoption home standards” and excluded her from accessing any child …

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Advocacy Strategy Emilie Kao regarding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing Thursday of SB 107, which gives California courts the ability to strip parents in other states of their parental rights if their child travels to or is taken to California to obtain life-altering hormones and irreversible surgeries. The law ignores the established authority of the other 49 states and increases the risk of irreparable harm to America’s children: “Parents have the fundamental right to direct the ...

ADF attorneys represent McComb Children’s Clinic in federal lawsuit

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Vice President of Litigation Strategy and Center for Conscience Initiatives Jonathan Scruggs regarding a newly released independent review overseen by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass and commissioned by England’s National Health Service to evaluate medical procedures to make children appear like the opposite sex: “Children struggling with their sex deserve the best possible care, and—as this independent review from Dr. Cass shows—that does not include rushing children to permanently alter their bodies. For years, activists have ...

Idaho attorney general asks Supreme Court to narrow lower court ruling, allow Idaho to protect children while case proceeds