Forced Abortion Speech Case Before SCOTUS
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument tomorrow for National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, one of four cases brought by crisis pregnancy centers challenging a California law as a violation of the First Amendment. Argument inside the Court will begin at 10:00 a.m. EST and last for one hour. Liberty Counsel previously filed an amicus brief in this case representing crisis pregnancy center clients, which is one of the four cases before the High Court.
- Monday, March 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump announced this week that he nominated Mike Pompeo, former Kansas Congressman and Director of the CIA, to become the next Secretary of State. Pompeo is pro-life and a strong pro-family advocate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Planned Parenthood and its affiliates received $1.5 billion between 2013-2015 from American taxpayers while under investigation for harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts.
JACKSON, MS - The Mississippi Senate passed the House bill Tuesday by a 35-14 vote that would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If signed into law, HB 1510 would be the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. The bill now goes to the House, and if passed there, on to the desk of Gov. Phil Bryant who stated he will sign it into law.
ORLANDO, FL - An article by Dr. Judith Reisman, founder and director of the Child Protection Institute, and Liberty Counsel's Senior Litigation Counsel Mary McAlister reveals how Cosmopolitan magazine promotes early sexual activity which leads to disease and depression in youth.
ORLANDO, FL - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claims it is "fighting hate and bigotry" but the SPLC's "hate group" list is a farce. While listing non-violent groups, like Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, and Liberty Counsel, the SPLC does not include groups that advocate the violent overthrow of the United States, like the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA(RCP).
BROOKLYN, NY - When she is not planning and advocating for a violent revolution to overthrow the United States government by force, Mary Lou Greenberg, spokeswoman for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, is the director of the "escort program" at the ironically named Choices Women's Medical Center, an abortion clinic in Queens, NY.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - President Donald Trump announced today that the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will open in May 2018 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of when David Ben Gurion announced the establishment of the Jewish state and Israel took its place among the nations on May 14, 1948.
BROOKLYN, NY - The star witness in a federal lawsuit filed by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman admitted in court that she created a fake Facebook page, pretending she was a pro-life Christian, to gather information on and entrap pro-life sidewalk counselors and preachers who appeared in front of the Choices Women's Medical Center in Jamaica, New York.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas concluded his address to the U.N. Security Council yesterday by threatening violence if the Trump administration does not pay funds to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
MONTREAT, N.C. -- Evangelist Billy Graham passed away this morning at 7:46 a.m. at his home in Montreat. He was 99.
Throughout his life, Billy Graham preached the gospel of Jesus Christ to approximately 215 million people who attended one of his more than 400 crusades, simulcasts and evangelistic rallies in more than 185 countries and territories.
BROOKLYN, NY - Merle Hoffman, president and CEO of Choices Women's Medical Clinic (Choices) in Jamaica, New York, who was questioned under oath yesterday by Liberty Counsel, has said that the "act of abortion positions women at their most powerful" because abortion gives women "power-and the responsibility-of taking life" so that they may control their own lives.
HAMILTON, BERMUDA - The governor of Bermuda signed a law that reverses an earlier law and will no longer recognize marriage between two people of the same sex. The law, known as the "Domestic Partnership Act 2017," passed the legislature by a 2-1 margin in both the Bermuda House and Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Within a week of taking office on January 23, 2017, President Trump 
BROOKLYN, NY - In a hearing this week in a federal lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman seeking to punish and silence pro-life and Christian speech on public sidewalks, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon told participants that leafletting is a "form of really protected speech" and that sidewalks are recognized as the "quintessential public forum." Attorney General Schneiderman filed the lawsuit in June 2017 with the intent to shut down pro-life and Christian speech on public sidewalks outside an abortion facility in Jamaica, New York.
ATLANTA, GA -- Today Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals defending the Alabama law that prohibits dismemberment abortions of live unborn babies, known as Dilation and Extraction (D&E), based on the medical evidence of their ability to feel intense pain.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has confirmed Gov. Samuel Dale Brownback of Kansas to be Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Department of State.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a meeting in Davos with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump placed the full responsibility for restarting the peace talks on the Palestinians. President Trump said that peace discussion could never get past the issue of Jerusalem.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Liberal media are upset that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is committed to upholding the rule of law and religious freedom. Politico and the Soros-funded Media Matters targeted Roger Severino, Director of the Office of Civil Rights, and also Shannon Royce, the Director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnership.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Since January 22 marks the 45th year since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, that purported to legalize killing a pre-born baby's life for any reason and at any stage of development, President Donald Trump proclaims today as National Sanctity of Human Life Day.