YouTube: Victims of the Obama Administration’s assault on religious freedom speak out at Rep. Black’s press conference in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act. Speakers included:
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.youtube.com
- Tags: ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Multimedia, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Colorado, State: New York, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Cenzon-DeCarlo v The Mount Sinai Hospital, ZZ: Newland v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 30202, ZZADF: 37155
ObamaCare’s employer mandate has become the “bludgeon” with which the government feels empowered to cripple the consciences of religious employers.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Americans United for Life, Group: Maryland Family Alliance, Group: North Carolina Family Policy Council, Group: Palmetto Family Council, Group: Virginia Family Foundation, Group: West Virginia Family Policy Council, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Liberty University v. Geithner, ZZADF: 40322
Denver Post: All the owners are evangelical Christians who specifically object to being forced to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs and devices,” said the company’s attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom in a statement released late Wednesday.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.denverpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Colorado, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Armstrong v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 39817
All Americans, including jobs creators and providers, should be free to live according to their faith rather than be forced into violating their own consciences.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Geneva College v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 36970
Michael J. Norton appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Radio Show to discuss: New lawsuit: Planned Parenthood forced, botched abortion. | MP3 audio 5:44 mins
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Michael J. Norton, ADF: Multimedia, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Planned Parenthood, State: Colorado, ZZ: Byer v. Doe, ZZADF: 39715
Rienzi, Mark, God and the Profits: Is There Religious Liberty for Money-Makers? (March 7, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: papers.ssrn.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Docs: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Catherine Glenn Foster at Townhall: In 2012, nearly half of America’s states enacted laws designed to protect women and children from coerced, unsafe, and rushed abortions. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, has dug in his heels in blind obedience to an outdated doctrine and is pushing to expand abortion in his state.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: townhall.com
- Tags: ADF: Catherine Foster, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New York, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Legislation
Ahwatukee Foothills News: Steven Aden, an attorney with the privately funded Alliance Defending Freedom that is helping the state defend the law, said blocking the law “would frustrate the public’s interest, expressed through its elected representatives, in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not directly or indirectly support abortions.” Aden also is arguing the state has sovereign rights in determining who can participate in the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid program. He said it is irrelevant that most of the funds for the program come from the federal government.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.ahwatukee.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Steven H. Aden, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Planned Parenthood, State: Arizona, Topic: Abortion
Religion Clause Blog: In Sioux Chief Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Sebelius, (WD MO, Feb. 28, 2013), a Missouri federal district court, with the consent of both parties, enjoined enforcement of the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage . . . he complaint (full text) in Armstrong v. Sebelius, (D CO, filed 3/5/2013), alleges . . . Because there was not time to seek judicial relief before Jan. 1, the company (at least temporarily) kept the same coverage to comply with the mandate. An ADF press release reports on the filing of the lawsuit.
- Posted: 03/07/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: religionclause.blogspot.com
- Tags: ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Colorado, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Armstrong v. Sebelius, ZZ: Sioux Chief Manufacturing v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 38540, ZZADF: 39817
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Colorado mortgage banking company co-owned by former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate.
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Colorado, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Armstrong v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 39817
LifeNews: The Obama administration should understand that it cannot force Americans to abandon their beliefs at the door of the workplace,” says Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot. “The Constitution simply doesn’t allow the government to involve itself in religion by deciding what faith is, who the faithful are, and when and where their faith may be lived out. Confining our faith to our homes and our churches is not the job of Washington bureaucrats.” “Americans should be free to honor God and live according to their consciences whether they are at home, church, or work,” adds lead counsel Jonathan R. Whitehead, one of nearly 2,200 allied attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom. [more]
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Kevin Theriot, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Sioux Chief Manufacturing v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 38540
Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy: Monday I filed a cert petition in Scott v. Saint John’s Church in the Wilderness, together with co-counsel Rebecca Messall, Thomas Brejcha, Peter Breen, and Jocelyn Floyd. I’m pleased to say that I’ve taken on the project pro bono, because I think it involves a very important First Amendment issue.
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Featured, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Thomas More Society, State: Colorado, Topic: Abortion, ZZ: Scott v. Saint John's Church in the Wilderness
SCOTUS Blog: Greenhouse and Siegel use the source materials republished in the book to challenge the conventional wisdom that, “if the Court had stayed its hand or decided Roe v. Wade on narrower grounds, the nation would have reached a political settlement and avoided backlash.” Once again, Linda Greenhouse has graciously agreed to answer a few questions about her work on this subject.
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: Bench & Bar
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- Source: www.scotusblog.com
- Tags: Category: Bench and Bar, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Culture, Topic: Jurisprudence, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Polls
NC Register: Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing a number of plaintiffs in HHS cases, also welcomed the proposed legislation. While the Alliance Defending Freedom has argued in court that the federal contraception mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Bowman told the Register that the proposed conscience-rights bill “is more specific; it blocks the administration’s hostility to religion possibly without having to rely on the courts, and it makes court action to protect religious freedom more swift.”
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.ncregister.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Obamacare
Wesley J. Smith at National Review: Alliance Defending Freedom has won another preliminary injunction against the free-birth-control rule based on the religious objections of a business owner, this time for a Missouri plumbing-supply company called Sioux Chief Manufacturing Co. Inc. What is interesting is that the injunction was unopposed by the feds. Welcome, but odd . . .
- Posted: 03/06/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Sioux Chief Manufacturing v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 38540
Alan E. Sears at the Alliance Defending Freedom: The Obama administration’s notorious abortion pill mandate – which forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy penalties – is taking on water fast, as the reality sinks in with judges across the country that the measure is a massive legal assault on religious freedom.
- Posted: 03/05/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.alliancedefendingfreedom.org
- Tags: ADF: Alan E. Sears, ADF: HHS Litigation, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Sioux Chief Manufacturing v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 38540
WorldNetDaily: The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported Feb. 27 the rate of metastatic breast cancer in women ages 25 to 39 nearly doubled between 1976 and 2009, from 1.53 to 2.9 per 100,000. The American Council on Science and Health calls the increase “slight.” But Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, points out there has been no corresponding increase in older women. | Incidence of Breast Cancer With Distant Involvement Among Women in the United States, 1976 to 2009, Rebecca H. Johnson, MD; Franklin L. Chien, BA; Archie Bleyer, MD
JAMA. 2013;309(8):800-805. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.776.
- Posted: 03/05/2013
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Docs: Studies, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Studies
Hot Air: In a little under an hour, three members of the House Republican caucus will announce a new legislative effort to undo the HHS contraception mandate’s infringement on freedom of religious practice, and prevent the next incursion as well.
- Posted: 03/05/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: hotair.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Obamacare
Melodika.net: “With another phony compromise, the Obama Administration continues to insult the intelligence of the American people and trample our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights,” said AUL’s President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest, as the Health and Human Services Department released additional regulations for Obamacare. “Our Freedom of Conscience, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment has been violated by Obamacare and these new regulations do not resolve the offense.”
- Posted: 03/05/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: www.melodika.net
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Americans United for Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Engage Family Minute: Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and allied attorneys represent Sioux Chief Manufacturing Co. in a federal lawsuit filed last month to challenge the mandate, which forces employers—regardless of their religious or moral convictions—to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception under threat of heavy penalties.“
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: engagefamilyminute.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defending Freedom, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Maria Santo at the Baltimore Sun: It is long past time to question the appalling intellectual dishonesty that has led us to kill 55 million children through abortion in the past 40 years. We must, as a matter of justice, find better solutions to difficult pregnancies. Civilized societies thrive through smart, creative, generous, life-giving and just solutions to their difficulties. Civilized societies do not kill children as a solution to any problem, no matter how grave. No society can claim to be just while legally killing its own children in the name of “choice.”
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.baltimoresun.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Culture
Helen M. Alvaré and Meg T. McDonnell at Washington Post: Pro-choice Americans must wonder from time to time what keeps pro-lifers going. Why don’t we lay down our signs, cease our marching and admit that we’ve been good and beaten for these 40 years since Roe v. Wade? One of us is a baby boomer, the other a millennial; our views may help others understand these things and, along the way, think about some rarely considered aspects of the U.S. experience with legal abortion.
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.washingtonpost.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Culture
Tim Carney at Washington Examiner: Republicans around the country railed against President Obama’s health-care law for four years, but in recent weeks, GOP governors and state legislators have embraced some of the bill’s provisions. How did Republicans learn to stop worrying and love Obamacare? In a word: industry.
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: washingtonexaminer.com
- Tags: Category: Miscellaneous, Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Religion Clause Blog: In Gilardi v. Sebelius. (D DC, March 3, 2013), the D.C. federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage mandate in a suit by two related for-profit Subchapter S corporations and their Catholic owners.
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: religionclause.blogspot.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Gilardi v. Sebelius
Townhall: Ayanna Byer, 40, filed suit Feb. 6 against Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, alleging an unnamed doctor at the clinic performed an abortion on her in November even though she told him she had changed her mind, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is representing her.
- Posted: 03/04/2013
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: townhall.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Planned Parenthood, State: Colorado, ZZ: Byer v. Doe, ZZADF: 39715
Evan Bernick at the Bell Towers: As a legal fellow with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, I’ve spent the last few months defending religious employers against the government’s efforts to impose the mandate upon them, even though I’m a pro-choice atheist. I’m proud of having done so. Here, I will argue that those who are concerned with individual rights and the real-world impact of policy choices should stand alongside me, regardless of their religion (or lack thereof). They should do so because (1) the mandate is unjust, and (2) it will hurt those whom it is intended to help.
- Posted: 03/01/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: thebelltowers.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Ctr. for Law and Religion at St. John’s U.: Whatever policy concerns one might have, it seems to me that the Administration’s categorical exclusion of for-profits in its current proposed rule, and its reliance on certain definitions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, just is not going to fly in the RFRA context.
- Posted: 03/01/2013
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- Category: Religious Liberty
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- Source: clrforum.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Liberty, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, Topic: RFRA
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