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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Today, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that a deceptive ballot initiative that proposes to codify unrestricted abortion in the state’s constitution may appear on the November ballot.
Today, the Florida Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking opinion that upholds the 15-week abortion ban and overrules the prior abortion opinions going back to the first abortion opinion in 1989 – the In re T.W. case. In doing do, the Court ruled there is no right to abortion in the Florida Constitution. Now that the 15-week ban has been upheld, the six-week ban will soon go into effect.
MAPLE GROVE, MN – As a result of Liberty Counsel’s demand letter to the superintendent of Osseo Area School District 279 in Minnesota, the school district has confirmed that teachers and students are free to exercise their legal rights to opt out of participating in the “LGBTQIA+ History and Culture Lesson” scheduled to be implemented in the high school curriculum next week.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, along withDanco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, regarding the FDA’s removal of critical safeguards allowing near-unfettered access to the chemical abortion drug Mifepristone, half of a two-drug protocol used to end pregnancies in early stages.
CHEYENNE, WY – Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a bill that bans harmful puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and irreversible mutilating surgeries for minors. Gov. Gordon signed SF 0099 also known as the “Children Gender Change Prohibition,” after the state Senate overwhelmingly passed it 26-5 and the House passed it 36-25. Wyoming is now the 24th state to protect children from these experimental procedures.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, March 26, in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, along with Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, regarding the FDA’s approval of the chemical abortion drug Mifepristone, half of a two-drug protocol used to end pregnancies in early stages.
WASHINGTON D.C. – As independent investigators continue to uncover illegal abortion practices and sales of human body parts by the abortion industry, a U.S. Congressional panel held an independent hearing this week for the purpose of “investigating the black market of baby organ harvesting” through abortion.
The panel heard testimony from two investigators, David Daleiden and Terrisa Bukovinac, who have spent years uncovering the horrific practices of fetal organ harvesting and trafficking.
TALLAHASSEE, FL – An article recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has been submitted as a supplemental authority to the Florida Supreme Court in response to the recent oral argument on whether a proposed amendment that would codify unrestricted abortion as a right in the state constitution should be put on Florida’s November 2024 ballot.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri where Missouri and Louisiana assert Biden administration officials violated the First Amendment by illegally coercing Big Tech companies to censor and suppress constitutionally-protected viewpoints on social media. The High Court is considering whether the government illegally coerced, or just legally persuaded, social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google into suppressing content on a wide range of issues.
WASHINGTON D.C. – On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri about whether Biden administration officials illegally colluded with Big Tech companies to censor and suppress constitutionally-protected viewpoints of Americans on social media. The Biden administration is appealing a lower court ruling that found officials had violated the First Amendment by pressuring Facebook, Twitter, and Google into suppressing content on a wide-range of issues, including the validity of the 2020 election, COVID-19 policies, abortion, and gender discussions.
Liberty Counsel has asked the California Supreme Court to dismiss the criminal case against Sandra Merritt brought by former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for her undercover journalism and videos which exposed Planned Parenthood’s trade in baby body parts.
BISMARCK, ND – A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the Biden administration cannot force members of the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) to perform medically mutilating procedures or provide health insurance coverage for such procedures in violation of their religious beliefs. While the ruling only protects CEA and its members, it provides a precedent for preserving religious freedom in future cases.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Michigan-based hospital Trinity Health Grand Rapids, formerly known as Mercy Health St. Mary’s, recently agreed in a consent decree to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which alleged the hospital improperly denied a job applicant’s request for a religious exemption to the flu shot. Trinity Health has since discontinued its mandatory flu shot policy and agreed in the settlement to pay $50,000 in damages. As part of the settlement, the hospital must train its senior leaders and human resources employees on Title VII’s religious protections.
MONTGOMERY, AL – After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are children, the state legislature and Governor Kay Ivey enacted a law this week providing medical professionals and IVF participants with legal immunity for the death or damage of a frozen embryo. Despite the Court stating that an IVF embryo is a “minor child” and is no different under the law than an embryo in the womb, the new law will treat frozen IVF children differently and not allow legal consequences for their deaths.
ORLANDO, FL – CVS and Walgreens, the two largest pharmacy chains in America, announced last week that they will begin selling the abortion pill Mifepristone in select states. While the drug will only be available by prescription, it will soon become accessible in pharmacies within states that do not ban abortion or require a physician to administer the drug in person.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the nation’s largest teachers’ unions support teaching gender ideology in schools, a recent Pew Research Center report reveals more than two-thirds of teachers, parents, and teenage students state that gender identity or “gender fluidity” should not be taught in schools. In addition, many teachers and parents say the choice to opt-out of this instruction should be available.
WASHINGTON D.C. – While the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Missouri case where potential jurors were dismissed from hearing a trial due to their biblical beliefs on homosexuality, Justice Samuel Alito chose to issue a five-page statement “reluctantly” agreeing not to the hear the case over a procedural issue, yet he warned this discrimination poses a “danger” to religious freedom.
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Last week, after arguing at the Florida Supreme Court against a proposed deceptive and misleading abortion amendment, Liberty Counsel filed a supplemental authority with the Court regarding how Florida’s laws affirm the legal rights of an “unborn child.”
ATLANTA, GA – The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), a 600-member national organization of health care professionals, released a position statement last week stating they could not “condone” puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and mutilating surgeries on gender-confused minors because there is no “long-term evidence” that they improve mental health.
In today’s culture where people are bombarded with messages that encourage promiscuity, Liberty Counsel is encouraging Christians to take a public stand for purity. The 21st annual Day of Purity is a campaign that encourages followers of Jesus Christ to wear white on February 14 to publicly promote abstinence and inspire others to save sexual intimacy for marriage.