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The MED Act allows doctors, nurses, and certain other medical professionals to decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience.

ADF attorneys available for media interviews following expedited hearing Wednesday

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Stephanie Nichols regarding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing Thursday of SB 1580, a bill that protects doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals and organizations from being forced to participate in health care services that violate their conscience: “Americans shouldn’t be forced to violate their ethical and religious beliefs, and this certainly includes doctors, nurses, and other medical providers. Thankfully, SB 1580 is a strong step in outlining comprehensive protections in Florida law for medical ...

What is gender theory? Read this breakdown of its history and how it’s affecting our society for the worse.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration to pause a trial court decision that would have restored critical safeguards to chemical abortion drugs while the lawsuit seeking to reimplement those safeguards proceeds: “As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo that existed prior to our lawsuit while our challenge to the FDA’s illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs and its removal ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley regarding a brief that ADF attorneys filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration on behalf of four medical organizations and four doctors. The brief urges the high court to keep in place a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit decision that restored critical safeguards to chemical abortion drugs while the lawsuit proceeds: “The FDA should have to answer for the damage it has done to the rule of law and the harm it has caused ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley regarding an administrative stay the U.S. Supreme Court issued Friday in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration: “The entry of a brief administrative stay is standard operating procedure whenever the Supreme Court is asked to consider an emergency request like this one. It gives the court sufficient time to consider the parties’ arguments before ruling. We look forward to explaining why the FDA has not met its heavy burden to pause the parts of the district court’s ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley regarding an emergency request the U.S. Department of Justice and Danco Laboratories, the main purveyor of chemical abortion drugs, filed Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks it to temporarily halt the decision of the federal district court in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit kept in place the part of the district court’s order protecting the health and safety of women and girls by restoring critical ...

Appeals court rules to keep in place portion of district court’s order requiring the agency to restore previous safeguards for chemical abortion drugs.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erik Baptist regarding a response ADF attorneys filed Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to the Biden administration’s emergency motion that asks the appeals court to stay a federal district court’s ruling that protects the health and safety of women and girls by halting the Food and Drug Administration’s illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs while the lawsuit proceeds: “Federal agencies that act lawlessly must be held accountable. The FDA illegally approved dangerous chemical ...