http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/25/austin-tx-lawyers-seek-repeal-of-unconstitutional-restrictions-on-pregnancy-resource-centers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/25/austin-tx-lawyers-seek-repeal-of-unconstitutional-restrictions-on-pregnancy-resource-centers/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:52:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124069 Christian Newswire: On behalf of their client, Austin LifeCare, a pregnancy resource center that has been well serving pregnant women in Texas since 1984, civil rights attorneys for the Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project, the Texas Center for the Defense of Life and the Alliance Defense Fund will urge the City Council of Austin at their meeting tomorrow to repeal Austin City Code 10-9, currently being challenged in Court, as recommended by their Law Department and not to enact Austin City Code 10-10 being proposed by two City councilmen that also unconstitutionally abridges Austin Life Care's rights to freedom of speech, association and religious free exercise. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/25/austin-tx-lawyers-seek-repeal-of-unconstitutional-restrictions-on-pregnancy-resource-centers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/ministries-battle-ugandas-thriving-child-sacrifice-business/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/ministries-battle-ugandas-thriving-child-sacrifice-business/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:48:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=116908 God Discussion: Every day families fear for their children in Uganda and the children fear for their siblings due to witch doctors kidnapping children and using them for ritual sacrifice. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/26/ministries-battle-ugandas-thriving-child-sacrifice-business/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/austin-texas-law-attacking-pregnancy-centers-faces-lawsuit-lifenews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/austin-texas-law-attacking-pregnancy-centers-faces-lawsuit-lifenews-com/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:43:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115585 LifeNews.com: “Pregnancy centers, which offer real help and hope to women, shouldn’t be punished by political allies of the abortion industry,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “Attacks such as this ordinance are an ideologically motivated attempt to distract from the growing national scandals in the abortion industry. For years, abortionists have preyed on women and girls to generate profits. Now, pro-abortion politicians are trying to give women fewer choices.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/austin-texas-law-attacking-pregnancy-centers-faces-lawsuit-lifenews-com/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/civil-rights-attorneys-file-first-amendment-action-against-the-city-of-austin-for-violating-the-civil-rights-of-pregnancy-resource-centers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/civil-rights-attorneys-file-first-amendment-action-against-the-city-of-austin-for-violating-the-civil-rights-of-pregnancy-resource-centers/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:07:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115579 Christian Newswire: On behalf of their client, Austin LifeCare, a pregnancy resource center that has been well serving pregnant women in Texas since 1984, civil rights attorneys for the Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project, the Texas Center for the Defense of Life and the Alliance Defense Fund filed an action in federal court this morning seeking to enjoin and have declared Austin City Code 10-9 to be an unconstitutional abridgment of Austin Life Care's rights to freedom of speech, association and religious free exercise. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/06/civil-rights-attorneys-file-first-amendment-action-against-the-city-of-austin-for-violating-the-civil-rights-of-pregnancy-resource-centers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/21/adult-stem-cell-researchers-ask-federal-appeals-court-to-reverse-district-court-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/21/adult-stem-cell-researchers-ask-federal-appeals-court-to-reverse-district-court-ruling/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:16:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114143 ProLife Blogs: Today, on behalf of the adult stem researchers it represents, the Jubilee Campaign's Law of Life Project and their co-counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, filed their Notice of Appeal asking the United States Court of Appeals to reinstate their case dismissed by United States District Court for the District of Columbia in its July 27 decision . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/21/adult-stem-cell-researchers-ask-federal-appeals-court-to-reverse-district-court-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/20/scientists-appeal-to-stop-obamas-embryonic-stem-cell-funding/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/20/scientists-appeal-to-stop-obamas-embryonic-stem-cell-funding/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:29:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113981 LifeNews.com: he appeal was filed by the Jubilee Campaign, a Christian law firm, and their co-counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. The Obama administration, via the National Institute of Health’s regulations permitted the federal funding of “research in which” human embryos are “knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.” Sam Casey, pro-life attorney arguing the case, commented on the appeal, saying, “Each time grant-awarding officials and federally funded scientists support or engage in hESC research, living human embryos are ‘knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death,’ in violation of the federal law known as the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/20/scientists-appeal-to-stop-obamas-embryonic-stem-cell-funding/feed/ 0