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Blake Treinen, a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is speaking out about the team’s invitation to “honor” the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that is blasphemous of Catholics and the Christian faith. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a San Francisco-based group that uses anti-religious imagery that includes drag performers who dress as nuns.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Liberty Counsel has filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the previous ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against Sandra Merritt in Planned
Parenthood’s multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit for her undercover investigation of the abortion giant. The implications of this case have far-reaching First Amendment consequences involving free speech and
undercover journalism.
Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the Arizona Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood Arizona v. Mayes where Planned Parenthood is challenging the potential reinstatement of the state's near-total abortion ban from 1864, which has exceptions for life-threatening emergencies, but had been blocked by 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration in which pro-life medical groups assert that the federal government has harmed women and girls by improperly approving and illegally distributing the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. The medical groups are asking the court to invalidate the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2000 approval of the drug which would take the drug off the market nationwide protecting women and their unborn babies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Arizona, et al. v. Mayorkas, et al, where the U.S. Supreme Court sent the Title 42 case dealing with immigration back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss the states’ request as moot, Justice Neil Gorsuch took the opportunity to state that the COVID-19 crisis may have resulted in “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” on the state, local, and federal levels.
Governor Ron DeSantis signed the “Let Kids Be Kids” bill package yesterday to protect Florida children from medical mutilation, gender ideology in schools, sexually explicit adult performances, and in private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) regarding the district’s new discriminatory and unconstitutional “policy” that is forcing schools to now cancel their graduations held at church facilities even though these schools have held graduations at religious facilities for years.
AUSTIN, TX – Texas lawmakers passed unprecedented legislation last week that will allow public schools across Texas to hire paid or volunteer chaplains to complement school counselors in providing “support, services, and programs for students.” According to SB 763, chaplains would have the ability to act as a mental health resource, aid in suicide prevention, provide behavioral health services, and engage in restorative justice practices.
FORT MYERS, FL – Governor Ron DeSantis signed a first-of-its-kind legislation last week banning the use of a federally-adopted Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in Florida to protect the freedom of Florida residents. Additionally, the bill also prohibits the use of foreign CBDCs in the state.
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in which pro-life medical groups assert the federal government improperly approved the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and has illegally distributed it harming women and girls.
SIMPSONVILLE, SC – A new study about the effect of abortion on men in America finds 71 percent of men suffered “adverse changes” to their mental health after losing a child to an abortion. The study elaborated stating that one out of every seven American men suffering abortion loss experience depression, anxiety, regret, grief, anger, and more.
ORLANDO, FL – Sixty-three years ago today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first birth control pill forever changing America’s cultural landscape. While conflicting ideologies about sex and reproductive health remain, the drug’s creation and dark road to approval through highly questionable clinical trials conducted by doctors with unethical methods, at the expense of the women in those trials, has not yet had its full reckoning.
ATLANTA, GA – A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals sent Liberty Counsel’s Marine case, Colonel Financial Management Officer, et. al., v Lloyd Austin, back to federal Judge Steven Merryday since the Department of Defense (DOD) COVID shot mandate has been rescinded.
TAMPA, FL –Today, Liberty Counsel received $950,000 from the City of Tampa for the legal victory which struck down the counseling ban that prevented licensed counselors from providing voluntary talk therapy to minors seeking help to reduce or eliminate their unwanted same-sex attractions, behaviors, or identity. On April 6, 2023, the Tampa City Council unanimously passed the resolution approving the $950,000 settlement to Liberty Counsel.
Liberty Counsel filed the reply brief to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals regarding the district court’s decision to deny defendant pro-life sidewalk counselor, Larry Cirignano, attorney’s fees in Two Rivers Public Charter School’s lawsuit against him. Liberty Counsel is asking the Appeals Court to reverse and remand to the Superior Court to determine the fee amounts to be awarded based on all the record evidence and applicable authorities.
ATLANTA, GA – A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals there was a dramatic rise in the number of suicide attempts among children using over-the-counter medications during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, “Suspected Suicide Attempts by Self-Poisoning Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, 2020–2022,” examined the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suspected suicide attempts, specifically by children poisoning themselves, and found “an increase during the pandemic, most notably among children ages 10–12 years, adolescents ages 13–15 years, and females, with the sharpest increase in attempts involving acetaminophen and diphenhydramine.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an emergency ruling on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to temporarily block the injunction against the abortion pill, known as mifepristone, amid an ongoing legal challenge over its regulatory approval. In an unsigned ruling in Danco Laboratories, LLC v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al., a majority of Justices granted an emergency request by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the pill’s manufacturer for a stay of a Texas federal judge’s suspension of the FDA’s approval of the drug until a full appeal of that ruling can be adjudicated. The case is far from over as the matter will move through trial in the District Court.
On April 7, finding in 2000 that the FDA improperly approved mifepristone with “legitimate safety concerns,” U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspended the agency’s approval of the drug and blocked the FDA’s subsequent actions to make it widely accessible. He delayed the order from taking effect for one week to give the government time to appeal. The Biden administration immediately appealed asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to put a hold on that ruling, which it did, staying the lower court’s FDA approval suspension. However, it left the rest of Judge Kacsmaryk’s order intact.
