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Transing California Foster Children & Why Doctors Like Us Opposed It

California’s AB2119 should not be law. Signing the bill is a triumph of ideology posing as science. Human beings should be affirmed, not false identities and sexual confusion.
AbortionAmicus Brief

National Institute of Family & Life Advocates v. Becerra

The freedom of speech is a bedrock principle of our nation, enshrined in the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. The right to speak or not to speak, however, is not unlimited. There are certain narrow exceptions when the government can, in fact, compel speech, including in the commercial or professional context.
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Masterpiece Cakeshop Amicus Brief

Whether, consistent with the First Amendment, an individual may be compelled, under color of nondiscrimination laws, to devote his or her creative efforts to the creation of custom products or services to be used to celebrate an event or relationship that he or she believes, by reason of faith or personal conviction, is immoral.
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Amici Brief – Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act

Brief filed by Americans United for Life in support of Plaintiffs, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bruce Rauner and Bryan Schneider. Amici includes American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologist, American College of Pediatricians, Christian Medical and Dental Associations and Heartbeat International.
Freedom of Faith and Conscience

Explaining at the Supreme Court Why Kids at Churches Need Public Safety Protection, Too

I spoke yesterday outside the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments in a court case over whether the Government can exclude kids who play on church-owned playgrounds from safety programs. The case could have broad implications across the nation for how governments treat faith-based institutions and individuals. I really appreciated working together with colleagues from groups like Concerned Women for America (CWA) and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) to highlight the message that Government should not set up a religious test for which kids get safety protections.
Physician-Assisted Suicide

The Effect of Legalizing Assisted Suicide on Palliative Care and Suicide Rates

Rebuttal article published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute in response to Compassion & Choices claim that Medical Aid In Dying laws have improved palliative care.
Physician-Assisted Suicide

10 Reasons DC Assisted Suicide Should Be Overturned

Eleven members of the District of Columbia Council decided in November 2016 to legalize assisted suicide, paving the way to providing DC citizens with lethal pills to kill themselves. Because assisted suicide represents a deadly danger to vulnerable patients, to the medical profession and to society, Congress is moving to overturn the DC law through a disapproval measure-a seldom-exercised authority but an imperative action with lives at risk.
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CMDA Wins Temporary Injunction in Texas Transgender Mandate Lawsuit

Moments ago, a Texas court protected the rights of families and their doctors to make medical decisions for their child free from government bureaucrats' interference.
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Alliance Defending Freedom Files Suit on Behalf of CMDA

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit in federal court against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation on behalf of health care professionals who wish to abide by their oath to “do no harm.”
Physician-Assisted Suicide

Alliance Defending Freedom Files Suit on Behalf of CMDA

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit in federal court against officials in the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the Office of Professional Regulation on behalf of health care professionals who wish to abide by their oath to “do no harm.”
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Stormans v Wiesman Amicus Brief

QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the Petitioner-Pharmacists’ belief that it is immoral to participate in the taking of human life is informed by the objective medical science establishing (1) that a new, distinct, human being comes into existence at the moment of sperm-egg fusion, and (2) that the objectionable drugs, Plan B and ella, have the capacity to end the life of a new human being at the embryonic stage of development.
Physician-Assisted Suicide

Tennessee Amici Curiae Against Assisted Suicide

John Jay Hooker vs. the State - Brief to uphold the fundamental values of the State of Tennessee, the history and tradition of this State and Nation, and universal, enduring notions of human dignity and to reaffirm Tennessee citizens' intereste in life, safety, sound public policy and medical integrity.