WorldNetDaily: “The fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution possibly have been shoved one step closer to irrelevance by the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday cited as support for its opinion an international treaty that has not been adopted in the U.S. . . . Roger Kiska, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund who is based in Europe, said the Supreme Court’s use of an unadopted precedent ‘completely overlooks the checks and balances system that is established by the U.S. Constitution.’”
- Posted: 05/20/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Bench and Bar, Country: Sweden, Court: U.S. Supreme, Global: Bench and Bar, Group: American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: International Law, Topic: Jurisprudence, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: United Nations
“There are more than 1000 IVF clinics in India, but no laws govern assisted reproductive technology (ART), which includes surrogacy, and no watchdog has been authorised to police it. ‘Most of the ART clinics in this country are not following these guidelines because they do not have any legal strength,’ said R. S. Sharma, the deputy director-general in the division of reproductive health and nutrition at the Indian Council of Medical Research.” | Via Wesley J. Smith | For more on surrogacy in India, see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/country-india+topic-surrogacy/
- Posted: 05/14/2010
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- Category: Global: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.brisbanetimes.com.au
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Australia, Country: Germany, Country: India, Global: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Adoption, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: International Law, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Surrogacy
Center for Arizona Policy: “The 2010 Legislative Session has come to an end with 12 [CAP-supported bills] receiving Governor Jan Brewer’s signature. This marks CAP’s most successful session in our 15-year history, throughout which we’ve led the way to see a total of 84 pro-family bills enacted into law!” Bills signed May 7th: SB 1306 (Human Egg Provider Protection Act) | SB 1307 (Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act) | HB 2238 (Child Prostitution) | Bills signed May 10th: HB 2664 (Scholarship Tax Credit Reform) | HB 2663 (Scholarship Tax Credit Conformity – Corporate Tax Credit) | SB 1309 (Parental Rights)
- Posted: 05/12/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: archive.constantcontact.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Arizona, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: Education, Topic: Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Prostitution, Topic: School Choice
Informed Choices and Uniform Decisions: Adopting the ABA’s Self-Enforcing Administrative Model to Ensure Successful Surrogacy Arrangements
Christine Metteer Lorillard, 16 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 237 (2010)
“Non-traditional families are on the rise in America today, with more and more same-sex couples raising families together. Yet, all same-sex partners seeking to become parents must make use of some assisted reproductive technique (‘ART’), as must some heterosexual married couples. Despite the growing number of people who want to create families, including those that resort to ARTs to have genetically-related children, there are significant moral, economic, and legal obstacles in their way. What has long been needed is a codified roadmap for a successful surrogacy agreement that delineates the rights and obligations of the parties involved, as well as the responsibilities to the resulting child. In addition, such a codified roadmap must vest parentage automatically in the intended parents, with no judicial intervention or approval required, so that the children born are guaranteed their legal parents from conception. This article argues that state courts and legislatures need to emerge from the ‘uncharted waters’ of surrogacy and adopt the ABA’s self-executing, administrative model for surrogacy agreements. Adoption of this model not only allows prospective intended parents to know that their intent will be legally preserved, but also ensures that children born to them are treated equally. Such an attempt to equalize children’s status demonstrates a policy for eliminating the penalty for illegitimacy and ensuring that children born through surrogacy enjoy the same rights as children born to a married couple.”
- Posted: 05/11/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Surrogacy
Radio Free Europe: “William Ward, the chairman of the Iraqi human rights organization Hammurabi, told RFE/RL that the Christian groups in Iraq are considering a campaign for separate legislation that would establish standards more in line with Christianity in such matters as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and child custody.”
- Posted: 05/03/2010
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- Category: Global: Marriage and Family
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- Source: www.rferl.org
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Iraq, Global: Marriage and Family, Topic: Divorce, Topic: Islam, Topic: Marriage, Topic: Parental Rights
CBC News: “Quebec parents opposed to a controversial ethics course are taking their fight to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Drummondville-area parents group is asking the top court to review their request for legal exemption that would allow schoolchildren to skip a mandatory ethics and religion class currently required to graduate. The course replaced Quebec’s previous religion class with a broader-ranging curriculum that touches on all major faiths practised in the province, including Protestanism, Catholicism, Judaism, First Nations spiritualism and Hinduism.”
- Posted: 04/28/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.cbc.ca
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Canada, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights
The Bulletin: “More than 300 parents have filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights challenging a compulsory anti-Christian curriculum in Spain’s public and private schools that promotes liberal sexuality with graphic imagery while openly bashing the Catholic Church . . . ‘The state shouldn’t usurp the right of parents to raise children according to their beliefs. Forcing students to participate in values training contrary to their convictions is a violation of basic human rights,’ said ADF Legal Counsel [Roger Kiska], who is based in Europe.” | ADF News Release
- Posted: 04/26/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.thebulletin.us
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Global, Country: Spain, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights
The Globe and Mail: “The revision, outlined in 208 pages that were quietly posted on the Ministry of Education’s website in January, will for the first time teach Grade 3 pupils about such topics as sexual identity and orientation, and introduce terms like ‘anal intercourse’ and ‘vaginal lubrication’ to children in Grades 6 and 7. The new curriculum begins in Grade 1 with lessons about the proper names of body parts.” | National Post
- Posted: 04/21/2010
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- Category: Global: Marriage and Family
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- Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Canada, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Sex Indoctrination
Christian Web News: “The Home School Legal Defense Association and members of the Alliance Defense Fund have been advising Christer and Annie Johansson on the ‘state-napping’ of their son as they were preparing to move to India, Annie’s home country . . . Roger Kiska Aliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe said ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid. This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’”
- Posted: 04/21/2010
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: cwnewz.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Category: Global, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Socialism
Chicago Sun-Times: “Their divorce was settled three years ago, but there they were Friday, back in Cook County Domestic Relations Court, this time fighting over a contentious religious issue: Could a devout Jewish mother force her ex-husband, who isn’t Jewish, to feed their 7-year-old son kosher food when he has the boy?”
- Posted: 04/19/2010
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.suntimes.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, State: Illinois, Topic: Child Custody, Topic: Divorce, Topic: Parental Rights
Guardian: “Teachers’ leaders had mixed feelings on hearing that huge sections of an education bill were dropped today in the rush to pass legislation ahead of the dissolution of parliament . . . Schools would have had to teach about contraception and the importance of stable relationships, including marriage and civil partnerships. Faith schools would have been free, as now, to express the views of their faith, but would not have been allowed to suggest that their views are the only ones.”
- Posted: 04/07/2010
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- Category: Global: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.guardian.co.uk
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: United Kingdom, Global: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Sex Indoctrination
HSLDA: “In a federal lawsuit filed March 3, 2006, and reported earlier in the Home School Court Report, HSLDA sued two child protective service workers who showed up at the Loudermilk family’s door, accompanied by numerous sheriff’s deputies, two months after an anonymous tipster had reported the family . . . The state argued that the family had voluntarily allowed the investigators into the home—an assertion that ignores the fact the social worker had said the Loudermilk children would be removed for 72 hours if the parents did not permit entry! . . . ”
- Posted: 04/07/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
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- Source: www.hslda.org
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, State: Arizona, Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: School Choice
Michael Young, In Defense of the Constitutionality of Critically Discussing Religion and Ethics in Schools in Light of Free Exercise and Parental Rights (2009). Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 70, p. 1565, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1584202
“This paper assesses whether a state could constitutionally mandate the critical discussion of religion and ethics in schools in a way that did not exempt religious objectors from participating. Such broadly critical courses have been proposed by numerous others; and such proposals and courses frequently meet protest from (especially fundamentalist) religious parents fearing an attempt to undermine their children’s particular religious faith. Imagining that a state mandated participation in a course of ‘Critical Discussions,’ and attempting to take up the strongest imagined form of such a religious challenge, this paper concludes that the legitimate interests of the state in promoting skills of open discourse (and especially on ethical and religious topics) argues conclusively against any First Amendment or parental rights (14th amendment) need for religious exemptions from mandatory participation.”
- Posted: 04/06/2010
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: ssrn.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Parental Rights
The Guardian: “Childless couples who acquire a baby using a surrogate mother abroad risk not being recognised as its parents in Britain if they flout British law by paying fees, fertility lawyers have warned. Such payments, which can be as high as £30,000, could lead to those who have made them being refused permission by the high court to become the child’s legal parents, specialist solicitors say.”
- Posted: 04/05/2010
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- Category: Global: Marriage and Family
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- Source: www.guardian.co.uk
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: United Kingdom, Global: Marriage and Family, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Surrogacy
OneNewsNow: “The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Professionals for Ethics have filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of more than 300 parents and children opposing the mandatory ‘Education in Citizenship’ program. ‘The curriculum promotes radical sexuality, homosexual behavior, [and] abortion and it openly bashes Christianity,’ explains [Roger Kiska], a Europe-based ADF attorney.”
- Posted: 03/30/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.onenewsnow.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Global, Country: Spain, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights
Chicago Sun-Times: “A Cook County judge today tossed out a lawsuit that aimed to, once and for all, kill the state’s long-mothballed law requiring parents to be notified before a teenage girl can get an abortion. But in his complicated ruling, Cook County Judge Daniel A. Riley kept in place a ban on enforcing the new law, arguing that while the lawsuit is flawed — so, too, is the law itself.”
- Posted: 03/29/2010
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.suntimes.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Illinois, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Parental Rights
EurActiv: “300 objectors have filed a lawsuit against the Spanish government’s “leftist stance” on education, challenging compulsory ‘anti-Christian’ classes for school students before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) . . . The suit, filed this month by lawyers from the Alliance Defence Fund (ADF) and Professionals for Ethics, calls for the adoption of ‘provisional measures’ preventing the Spanish government from obliging children to sit the course.”
- Posted: 03/26/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.euractiv.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Global, Country: Spain, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights
WorldNetDailya: “A lawsuit has been filed against the Spanish government over mandatory classes that expose children to sexually explicit images and bash Christian beliefs . . . ‘Americans should take note of this case because this sort of situation is not restricted to Spain,’ said [Roger Kiska], legal counsel for ADF based in Europe. ‘Many parents would be dismayed to know that there are organizations in the U.S. that have attempted to persuade school districts to use similar types of curriculum.’”
- Posted: 03/26/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.wnd.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Roger Kiska, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Global, Country: Spain, Global: Marriage and Family, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Education, Topic: Parental Rights
Browne C. Lewis, Incubator or Cultivator: Defining the Role of the Surrogate (March 16, 2010). Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 10-187. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1572887
“The availability of reproductive technology makes it possible for one woman to supply the genetic material to create the child and another woman to gestate and give birth to the child. This division of labor has required courts to have to adjudicate maternity. A few state legislatures have enacted statutes designating the legal mother of a child conceived as the result of a surrogacy arrangement. In other jurisdictions, the courts must decide whether the surrogate or the contracting woman should be recognized as the child’s legal mother. In order to accomplish that purpose, courts have relied upon several different tests. As a result, the woman who gives birth may be deemed the legal mother in one state. In another jurisdiction, the woman who contributes the genetic material used to create the child may be adjudicated as the legal mother. These conflicting results are not in the best interests of the child, the contracting couple or the surrogate.”
- Posted: 03/24/2010
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: ssrn.com
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Parental Rights, Topic: Surrogacy
Of Permission Slips and Homophobia: Parental Consent Policies for School Club Participation Aimed at Gay-Positive Student Groups
Ian Vandewalker, 19 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 23 (2009)
“Gay-positive student groups, often called ‘Gay-Straight Alliances’ (‘GSAs’), have become more and more common in the nation’s high schools in recent years. They are a way for all students to show their commitment to equality and their acceptance of others, regardless of their sexual orientation. They may also function as a support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning youth trying to come to terms with the intolerance they face from peers, family members, and their broader communities. The need for such support is vividly shown by the strident opposition from parents and social conservatives that often accompanies students’ efforts to form GSAs. One way schools react to attempts by students to form such clubs is by requiring that parents consent before students can participate in school clubs. These parental consent policies are facially evenhanded in that they apply to all clubs and do not single out GSAs. The context of their adoption, however, usually reveals that they are uniquely directed at the gay-positive groups, whose founding motivated the policies. Despite their evenhandedness, parental consent policies can be challenged under the federal Equal Access Act of 1984, which requires that student groups get ‘equal access’ to school resources.”
- Posted: 03/24/2010
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- Category: Marriage & Family
- Tags: Category: Marriage and Family, Group: Gay-Straight Alliance, Topic: Education, Topic: Homosexual Agenda, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Parental Rights
Jacob M. Appel writing at the Huffington Post: “Unfortunately, much less attention has been paid to efforts to hasten the deaths of pediatric patients who lack any hope of recovery. That is why advocates for children should welcome an impressive study, published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, which revealed a considerable interest in euthanasia among the surviving parents of children who had died from cancer. In interviews with 141 such parents, Dr. Veronica Dussel and her colleagues found that greater than 10% considered hastening their children’s deaths, and that at least three families believed that physicians had expedited the deaths of their children in direct response to their requests.”
- Posted: 03/03/2010
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- Category: Sanctity of Life
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- Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
- Tags: Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Bioethics, Topic: Euthanasia, Topic: Parental Rights
LifeSiteNews: “In a public statement, the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) said they are now working together to advise the family and examine all available avenues to help reunite them with their son, who has been living with a foster family.”
- Posted: 03/03/2010
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifesitenews.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Country: Sweden, Court: European Court of Human Rights, Global: Marriage and Family, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights
Education News: “The Home School Legal Defense Association and members of the Alliance Defense Fund have been advising Christer and Annie Johansson on the ‘state-napping’ of their son, Dominic, 7, from an airliner as the family was preparing to move to India last year.”
- Posted: 03/01/2010
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- Category: Uncategorized
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- Source: www.educationnews.org
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Category: Global, Country: India, Country: Sweden, Global: Marriage and Family, Group: Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Topic: Education, Topic: Home School, Topic: Parental Rights, ZZ: Johansson v Gotland Social Services
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Christian Post: “There has to be a wall institutionally between the government and the church or religious groups,” he said. “But many have taken that law of separation to think that it means separating religion from politics, which is precisely the opposite of what the Founding Fathers wanted.”
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