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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Bowman regarding a proposed rule released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that reinterprets federal law to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, requiring doctors to perform harmful medical procedures that seek to alter a patient’s biological sex even if the procedure violates the doctor’s medical judgment or religious beliefs. The new proposed rule would also prohibit discrimination on the basis of “termination of pregnancy”—an action that could ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Robert Kerr, director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, in the case Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, asking the court to clarify that Medicaid recipients can’t sue states that have determined that Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses aren’t qualified to receive Medicaid funding for family planning services: “Pro-life ...

After abortionists sought to halt enforcement of law, ADF attorneys filed emergency motion in the Supreme Court of Appeals of WV

WHO: Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle, who is director of the ADF Center for Life and served on the Mississippi legal team at the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and ADF client Heidi Matzke, director of a California pregnancy care center whose network won its pro-life speech case, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, at the U.S. Supreme Court WHAT: Testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at its hearing, “A Post- Roe America: The Legal Consequences of the Dobbs Decision” WHEN: Tuesday, July 12 ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle, director of the ADF Center for Life, regarding the executive order President Joe Biden signed Friday in an attempt to pacify pro-abortion radicals: “Faced with mounting pressure by pro-abortion radicals, President Biden is using his executive authority to create false panic and spread harmful misinformation surrounding care for women and unborn children, and to inject lies into the public discussion. For example, women undergoing abortions already receive the same privacy protections guaranteed by ...

Motion for rehearing asks state high court to rehear case to declare pro-life law is due greater deference

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle, director of the ADF Center for Life, regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit’s decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, instructing that court to re-evaluate its ruling (in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) against an Indiana law ensuring that parents are notified if their minor children seek an abortion: “The well-being of both babies and young women is ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to vacate a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s in Rutledge v. Little Rock Family Planning Services and remand it back to that court to re-evaluate its ruling in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Because of Roe v. Wade, the 8th Circuit had suspended enforcement of Arkansas laws protecting unborn life after 18 weeks in gestational age, prohibiting abortions simply ...

ADF attorneys served on legal team defending law, worked with lawmakers to draft language

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which upholds Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act and reverses the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, meaning states may now fully protect innocent, unborn life. ADF attorneys served on Mississippi’s legal team to defend the law and helped state lawmakers draft it: “The Supreme Court’s decision is a major victory for unborn children and their mothers. Laws across the country can now ...