Alliance Defending Freedom

Sep 3, 2024 | adflegal.org | Denise Burke

As the executive director of a pro-life pregnancy center in Sacramento, California, Heidi Matzke should be able to focus on providing much-needed care for pregnant women, new mothers, and their families. But after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the summer of 2022, she was forced to dedicate much of her attention to protecting her pregnancy center and employees from targeted attacks.

Aug 13, 2024 | adflegal.org | Kate Anderson

In June, Pixar released Inside Out 2, an animated film that explores the emotional changes of puberty. The film takes place inside the mind of Riley Anderson, a girl who loves hockey and hanging out with her friends. The movie is a sequel to Inside Out (2015), in which the five main characters—personified emotions Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger—try to help 11-year-old Riley adjust to her new environment after her family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco for her father’s new job.

Jul 25, 2024 | adflegal.org | Ryan Tucker

Over 400 years ago, the Pilgrims sailed the Mayflower to the New World, seeking religious freedom. They were neither the first nor the last group to come to America to make a new life and worship freely, but from the beginning, religious freedom has been at the core of America’s identity. But as society has grown more secular, attitudes toward religious freedom have shifted.

Jul 23, 2024 | adflegal.org | Denise Burke

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court made the life-affirming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the power to regulate abortion to the people and their elected representatives. “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Jul 18, 2024 | adflegal.org | Erik Baptist

As a devout Catholic, Mark Houck believes every human life is precious, created by God, and worthy of protection. It was this belief that led him to often pray with his 12-year-old son outside a Philadelphia abortion facility. In October 2021, a Planned Parenthood escort repeatedly got in the face of Houck and his son while making vulgar comments toward them, witnesses said. Houck allegedly responded by pushing the abortion escort in an effort to protect his son.