NJ Star Ledger: “The law said they don’t have to assist any part of the (abortion) case,” said Matt Bowman, the attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. Demetrios Stratis, a Fair Lawn attorney who’s the local counsel, said the definition of what constitutes assisting in an abortion could be very fine.
- Posted: 11/15/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nj.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
News from Missouri Family Policy Council: The Alliance Defense Fund is representing the nurses in the case. Matt Bowman, legal counsel for ADF, says the hospital’s actions are “flatly illegal.” “These twelve nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since the policy change required them to participate in abortions regardless of their religious and moral objections.” [more]
- Posted: 11/15/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: campaign.r20.constantcontact.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Christian Post: The Alliance Defense Fund, the legal firm defending the nurses, estimates that the university receives about $60 million annually in federal funds.
- Posted: 11/15/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Washington Examiner: Matt Bowman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of Christian lawyers and organizations that is representing the nurses, said the hospital had previously hired per-diem nurses or those who volunteered to assist with abortions to help perform them. Bowman said the hospital notified nurses in writing in September that its new policy would require same-day surgery unit nurses to assist in abortions. The nurses filed suit on Oct. 31, claiming the hospital was compelling them to undergo training that involved assisting in abortions, and indicated they could be subject to termination if they didn’t comply.
- Posted: 11/15/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: washingtonexaminer.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
ADF Attorney Matt Bowman at National Review Online: As we all know from politics, and from our childhood, real trouble comes not so much from breaking the rules but from lying to cover it up. Yet that’s exactly what the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is doing to cover up its illegal insistence that nurses assist in abortions, in violation of their religious and moral beliefs.
- Posted: 11/14/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
AuBurnPub.com: Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, said Friday if a lawsuit is filed against Belforti, she will have support. “We do have people we work with like the Alliance Defense Fund that are more than willing to represent (Belforti) and even the municipality at no cost,” he said. “ADF and Liberty Counsel tend to get involved in these matters. We don’t want there to be any cost to the town of Ledyard or the town clerk.” The Courage Fund was created by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms to help clerks who oppose the state’s marriage law. McGuire said the Courage Fund doesn’t exist to provide clerks with legal advice, but does help them by connecting clerks to groups like ADF and assists with media requests.
- Posted: 11/14/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: auburnpub.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: Liberty Counsel, Group: New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Marriage
Several of the 12 nurses who recently filed suit to stop a New Jersey hospital from forcing them to help with abortions will participate in a press conference Monday at 1 p.m. EST. Joining the nurses will be U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) . . .
- Posted: 11/14/2011
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Christian Post: Belforti reached out to the Alliance Defense Fund, a religious freedom advocacy organization, for help. An ADF lawyer, Jordan L[o]rence, commented on the case: “We need to protect religious liberty and the right of conscience. And legalizing same-sex marriage creates these kinds of conflicts.” “[Protecting] these town clerks,” L[o]rence says, is akin to protecting religious freedom.
- Posted: 11/08/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: global.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Jordan Lorence, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, State: New York, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Marriage
NRL News Today: According to the Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending the twelve nurses, “The order also prohibits any acts of employment discrimination against the nurses until that matter is resolved.” The ADF filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, on behalf of the nurses who “possess strongly held religious and moral beliefs that she may not participate in the process of an abortion that causes the death of a preborn child,” according to ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman.
- Posted: 11/07/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalrighttolifenews.org
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Christian Post: “The hospital has been relentless in demanding that these nurses participate in abortion procedures,” Alliance Defense Fund attorney Matt Bowman told The Christian Post. “It’s indisputable that the hospital is seeking to break both federal and state laws. The sole purpose of passing laws was to protect people after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land.”
- Posted: 11/07/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Catholic News Agency (CNA): “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist or train in services related to abortions. Federal and state law both prohibit this,” said Alliance Defense Fund attorney Matt Bowman.
- Posted: 11/07/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
OneNewsNow.com: Attorney Matt Bowman laments the fact that the hospital continues to push the issue, despite the federal restrictions. “These … nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortion cases, regardless of their religious and moral objections,” the attorney explains. “The court’s order prevents that until the November 18 hearing, but it is disturbing that the hospital may fight to continue violating laws that clearly protect conscience rights.”
- Posted: 11/07/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
WORLDmag.com : ADF legal counsel Matt Bowman said that the hospital’s directive was “flatly illegal.” The Christian Post also reports that the ADF is handling a similar case involving Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. This seems like a straightforward case of a hospital breaking the law, and perhaps there will be a happy ending. I’m grateful the ADF is on the case, and for the temporary restraining order
- Posted: 11/04/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: online.worldmag.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
WorldNetDaily: “These 12 nurses,” said ADF legal counsel Matt Bowman, “have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortion cases regardless of their religious and moral objections. The court’s order prevents that until the Nov. 18 hearing, but it is disturbing that the hospital may fight to continue violating laws that clearly protect conscience rights.”
- Posted: 11/04/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
NRL News Today: The ADF filed suit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, on behalf of the nurses who “possess strongly held religious and moral beliefs that she may not participate in the process of an abortion that causes the death of a preborn child,” according to ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “No less than 12 nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortions regardless of their religious objections,” he said. “That is flatly illegal.”
- Posted: 11/04/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalrighttolifenews.org
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
LifeNews.com: ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman told LifeNews . . . “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist or train in services related to abortions. Federal and state law both prohibit this,” he said. “These 12 nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortion cases regardless of their religious and moral objections. The court’s order prevents that until the Nov. 18 hearing, but it is disturbing that the hospital may fight to continue violating laws that clearly protect conscience rights.”
- Posted: 11/04/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Cenzon-DeCarlo v The Mount Sinai Hospital, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prohibits a New Jersey hospital from forcing any of 12 nurses that sued the facility to participate in training or services related to abortions. The order, which the hospital agreed to, is in effect until the court decides whether to issue any additional order at a Nov. 18 hearing.
- Posted: 11/04/2011
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Cenzon-DeCarlo v The Mount Sinai Hospital, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Matt Bowman at National Review Online: Before October 2011, Lorna Mendoza and her nurse colleagues at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey served patients every day in the same day surgery unit without any hint that the hospital’s respect for the nurses’ religious beliefs was about to come crashing down around them.
- Posted: 11/03/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.nationalreview.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Charles Toutant at New Jersey Law Journal (subscription): The suit was filed by the Alliance Defense Fund of Scottsdale, Ariz., which describes itself as a Christian and legal policy organization and is opposed to abortion . . . The Alliance Defense Fund believes the UMDNJ case will end differently because it concerns a government-run hospital, unlike the private hospital in the New York case, according to its legal counsel, Matthew Bowman. Private entities aren’t subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, but government agencies are, says Bowman.
- Posted: 11/03/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Cenzon-DeCarlo v The Mount Sinai Hospital, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
ProLifeBlogs: “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “No less than 12 nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortions regardless of their religious objections. That is flatly illegal.” . . . Demetrios K. Stratis, one of nearly 2,100 attorneys in the ADF alliance is local counsel in the case, Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. ADF is currently involved in a similar lawsuit in New York state court involving a nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
- Posted: 11/02/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News, Uncategorized
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- Source: www.prolifeblogs.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Cenzon-DeCarlo v The Mount Sinai Hospital, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
NRL News Today: “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “No less than 12 nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortions regardless of their religious objections. That is flatly illegal.” The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, on behalf of the nurses who “possess strongly held religious and moral beliefs that she may not participate in the process of an abortion that causes the death of a preborn child,” Bowman said.
- Posted: 11/02/2011
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.nationalrighttolifenews.org
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
World Net Daily: “Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs,” said Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the organization. “No [fewer] than 12 nurses have encountered threats to their jobs at this hospital ever since a policy change required them to participate in the abortions regardless of their religious objections. “That is flatly illegal,” he said.
- Posted: 11/02/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Christian Post: “ADF is committed to defend the right of pro-life nurses not to be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs,” said Matt Bowman of ADF on Tuesday. Bowman also said that throughout the country there are other legal challenges to hospitals requiring medical personnel to assist in abortions even if they hold religious objections. “ADF is currently litigating this case on behalf of a nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York,” said Bowman, who added that his organization “successfully intervened on behalf of nursing applicants to a program at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.”
- Posted: 11/02/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.christianpost.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
Twelve nurses represented by Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed suit Monday against their employer, a hospital run by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, for requiring them to participate in abortions. Federal and state law both protect them from being forced to do so.
- Posted: 11/01/2011
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.adfmedia.org
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: New Jersey, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, ZZ: Danquah v. University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey, ZZADF: 35875
ADF Attorney Kevin Theriot at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: In an open letter to his fellow bishops, Bishop Dolan, President of the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops lists numerous examples of government laws, policies, and regulations that have been propounded without any regard for the religious liberty upon which they are trampling.
- Posted: 10/26/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.speakupmovement.org
- Tags: ADF: Kevin Theriot, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: USCCB, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Culture
ADF President and General Counsel Alan E. Sears appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. | MP3 audio 8:38 mins | ADF Media Resources: Bronx Household, Alpha Delta Chi, Utah Highway Patrol, Forsyth Co.
- Posted: 10/25/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
- Tags: ADF: Alan E. Sears, ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Multimedia, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Court: U.S. Supreme, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Education, ZZ: Alpha Delta Chi-Delta Chapter v. Reed, ZZ: Bronx Household of Faith v Board of Education of the City of New York, ZZ: Joyner v Forsyth Co North Carolina, ZZ: Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American Atheists
Matt Bowman at LifeNews.com: On Thursday September 29, 2011, the Alliance Defense Fund submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pointing out the illegal character of HHS’s proposal to mandate that the vast majority of religious entities, individuals, and insurance plans must cover abortifacients, contraceptive and sterilizing drugs, devices and information. ADF submitted its comments on behalf of The Cardinal Newman Society’s Center for the Advancement Catholic Higher Education and multiple Catholic Colleges and Universities.
- Posted: 09/30/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Cardinal Newman Society, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: White House
Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley and O. Carter Snead at Public Discourse: The Witherspoon Institute’s Task Force on Conscience Protection recently reviewed and will submit comments on the “interim final rule” jointly issued by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury on “preventive services” under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We present our findings here. First, we treat the mandate that all health plans provide both contraceptives and certain abortifacients. Second, we comment upon the narrow religious freedom exemption in the rule. Third, we address the mandate in light of current social circumstances concerning sexual freedom and sexual restraint.
- Posted: 09/26/2011
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.winst.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
NOW has distributed an email encouraging readers to oppose religious exemptions from birth control insurance coverage. It provides in part: “Opponents of women’s access to contraception have stepped up pressure on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand an exemption allowing some religious institutions to deny birth control insurance coverage to their employees. This exemption should not have been included in the HHS rules in the first place. But religious extremists are lobbying hard to convince HHS to completely remove the requirement for full insurance coverage of contraception from the new regulations. This would be a huge loss for women.”
- Posted: 09/23/2011
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- Category: Religious Freedom
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: NOW, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Feminism
The Advocate: Belforti, who earned $19,116 in her part-time clerk position last year, refuses to resign. New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a group of evangelical Protestants that advocated against the marriage equality law before it passed in June, has offered to connect her and other clerks to legal support from the Alliance Defense Fund.
- Posted: 09/21/2011
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- Category: ADF in the News
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, State: New York, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Marriage and Family, Topic: Politics
People For the American Way: People For the American Way Foundation and Proskauer Rose, LLP, a global law firm, sent a letter this weekend to the Ledyard Town Board, demanding that the town’s clerk fulfill her legal duty to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The letter refers to Ledyard Town Clerk Rose Marie Belforti, who had publicly stated that she will not sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples and refused to do so for Katie Carmichael and Deirdre DiBiaggio on August 30.
- Posted: 09/13/2011
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- Category: Religious Freedom
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, Group: People for the American Way, State: New York, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Marriage
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