Editing Alliance Defending Freedom (section)

=== Opposing abortion, birth control, and euthanasia ===
ADF has long opposed [[abortion]], and has litigated to restrict access to abortion and contraception in the US and in other countries. The ADF was a key participant in the 2022 case, ''[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]]'', that ended the Right to an abortion in the first 24 weeks and returning the power to the States to regulate abortion. 

The ADF represents the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine in ''[[Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. US Food and Drug Administration]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al |url=https://www.law360.com/cases/6377d1beb6593203c70c9b44 |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=law360.com |language=en |archive-date=March 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303005754/https://www.law360.com/cases/6377d1beb6593203c70c9b44 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="shadow-medical">{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Jordan |title=The Shadow Medical Community Behind the Attempt to Ban Medication Abortion |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/02/28/medication-abortion-lawsuit/ |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=The Intercept |date=February 28, 2023 |language=en |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308010655/https://theintercept.com/2023/02/28/medication-abortion-lawsuit/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a case where the plaintiff has challenged the [[Food and Drug Administration|U.S Food and Drug Agency's]] longstanding approval of [[mifepristone]], a drug frequently used in [[medical abortion]] procedures.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=McCann |first1=Allison |last2=Walker |first2=Amy Schoenfeld |date=2023-03-02 |title=Where Restrictions on Abortion Pills Could Matter Most in the U.S. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/02/us/abortion-pill-lawsuit-mifepristone.html |access-date=2023-03-03 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306054512/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/02/us/abortion-pill-lawsuit-mifepristone.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=In lawsuit challenging FDA approval of abortion pills, state attorneys general weigh in |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/lawsuit-seeks-to-reverse-fda-approval-abortion-pills-rcna70207 |access-date=2023-03-03 |publisher=NBC News |date=February 11, 2023 |language=en |archive-date=March 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306055138/https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/lawsuit-seeks-to-reverse-fda-approval-abortion-pills-rcna70207 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pierson |first=Brendan |date=2023-01-17 |title=Reversing abortion drug's approval would harm public interest, U.S. FDA says |language=en |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reversing-abortion-drugs-approval-would-harm-public-interest-us-fda-says-2023-01-17/ |access-date=2023-03-03 |archive-date=March 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304165314/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reversing-abortion-drugs-approval-would-harm-public-interest-us-fda-says-2023-01-17/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

One of its most notable legal battles was a 2014 case challenging the [[Affordable Care Act]]. In ''[[Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.]]'', the Court ruled that the birth control mandate in employee-funded health plans when the company is "closely-held" violated the [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]] of 1993. The case set a precedent for allowing corporations and individuals to make religious claims for exemption from laws and regulations based on a religious freedom argument.<ref name="sherry">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cpr.org/news/story/who-is-the-alliance-defending-freedom-masterpiece-cakeshops-legal-team |title=Who Is The Alliance Defending Freedom, The Legal Team Behind Masterpiece Cakeshop? |last=Allison |first=Sherry |date=December 5, 2017 |publisher=Colorado Public Radio |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130205203/https://www.cpr.org/news/story/who-is-the-alliance-defending-freedom-masterpiece-cakeshops-legal-team |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Willis|first1=David|title=Hobby Lobby case: Court curbs contraception mandate|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/28093756|access-date=June 30, 2014|publisher=BBC News|date=June 30, 2014|archive-date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630234018/http://www.bbc.com/news/28093756|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=O'Donoghue|first1=Amy Joi|title=Group protests Hobby Lobby decision on birth control|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865606395/Group-protests-Hobby-Lobby-decision-on-birth-control.html?pg=all|access-date=July 30, 2014|work=Deseret News|date=July 5, 2014|archive-date=August 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812150817/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865606395/Group-protests-Hobby-Lobby-decision-on-birth-control.html?pg=all|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work=BusinessWeek | url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-07/supreme-court-feuds-over-the-hobby-lobby-birth-control-ruling | title=A Supreme Feud Over Birth Control: Four Blunt Points | date=July 7, 2014 | first=Paul | last=Barrett | access-date=July 17, 2014 | archive-date=January 13, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113042937/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-07/supreme-court-feuds-over-the-hobby-lobby-birth-control-ruling | url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] held that privately held [[corporations]] could be [[Religious exemption|exempt]] from [[Affordable Care Act]] regulations if the owners asserted religiously objections, basing the decision on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. The decision meant that many employers could decide not to cover contraceptives through their health insurance plans.<ref>{{cite news | last=Blake | first=Aaron | title=A LOT of people could be affected by the Supreme Court's birth control decision — theoretically | date=June 30, 2014 | newspaper=The Washington Post | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/30/a-lot-of-people-could-be-affected-by-the-supreme-courts-birth-control-decision/ | access-date=July 25, 2022 | archive-date=April 4, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404014432/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/30/a-lot-of-people-could-be-affected-by-the-supreme-courts-birth-control-decision/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | publisher=CNN | url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/politics/scotus-obamacare-contraception/ | title=Supreme Court rules against Obama in contraception case | first=Bill | last=Mears | author2=Tom Cohen | date=June 30, 2014 | access-date=June 30, 2014 | archive-date=April 30, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430042415/https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/politics/scotus-obamacare-contraception/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2014, lawyers from the organization represented parents who wanted public schools to remove pages from a biology textbook that mentioned abortion and [[sexually transmitted diseases]].<ref name="gilbert-sex-ed">{{cite news | title=In Arizona, a Textbook Fuels a Broader Dispute Over Sex Education | author=Rick Rojas | work=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/us/in-arizona-a-textbook-fuels-a-broader-dispute-over-sex-education.html | date=28 November 2014 | access-date=24 June 2023}}</ref>

====International anti-abortion work====
ADF has led an international campaign to influence and restrict the right to abortion.<ref>[https://adfinternational.org/regions/europe/campaigns/freedom-of-conscience ADF website: ''Members of the European Parliament speak out for Freedom of Conscience''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124110419/https://adfinternational.org/regions/europe/campaigns/freedom-of-conscience|date=January 24, 2017}}. Retrieved January 24, 2017</ref> The organization takes the position that [[healthcare]] workers have a right to refuse to provide care for abortion and other practices the individual finds morally objectionable.<ref name="hobby-decision">{{cite web | url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/06/30/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-decision | title=The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Decision | last=Holst | first=Lindsay | date=June 30, 2014 | access-date=March 19, 2022 | archive-date=April 23, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423183543/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/06/30/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-decision | url-status=live }}</ref> ADF has backed anti-abortion causes in Ireland,<ref name="christian army" /> El Salvador, Colombia, Poland and Sweden.<ref name="dark money">{{cite web | url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/us-rightwing-mississippi-abortion/ | title=US 'dark money' groups behind Mississippi abortion case spend millions overseas | last1=Cordero | first1=Mónica | last2=Cariboni | first2=Diana | last3=Ferreira | first3=Lou | date=December 3, 2021 | access-date=March 21, 2022 | archive-date=March 22, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322023547/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/us-rightwing-mississippi-abortion/ | url-status=live }}</ref> In the United Kingdom, the group has campaigned against [[Legal protection of access to abortion|buffer zones]] around abortion clinics.<ref name="uk-spending">{{cite news |last1=Provost |first1=Claire |last2=Geoghegan |first2=Peter |title=Revealed: US anti-LGBT 'hate group' dramatically increases UK spending |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-us-anti-lgbt-hate-group-dramatically-increases-uk-spending/ |work=openDemocracy |date=March 20, 2019 |access-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130225325/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-us-anti-lgbt-hate-group-dramatically-increases-uk-spending/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In Sweden, a midwife, Ellinor Grimmark, sued the province of [[Jönköping County|Jönköping]] for discrimination because she was refused employment when, citing "freedom of conscience", she refused to give [[morning-after pills]], perform abortions, or put in copper [[IUDs]]. She lost both her hearing before the Discrimination Ombudsman, and at the Jönköping district court.<ref name="barnmorskor">[[Sveriges Radio]] 24 januari 2017: [http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6614458 ''Abortvägrande barnmorskor får stöd av amerikansk lobby''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220211957/https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/6614458 |date=February 20, 2022 }}. Retrieved January 24, 2017</ref> The proceedings in the Labor Court of Sweden began on January 24, 2017, and her case received both legal and financial aid from ADF. Grimmark's legal representative, Ruth Nordström, was a registered partner of ADF,<ref>[http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9848 ADF website 27 januari 2016: ''Sweden faces human rights problem''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103040410/http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9848|date=January 3, 2017}}. Retrieved January 24, 2017</ref> and both Grimmark and Nordström participated in ADFs marketing films.<ref>[http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6615313 Sveriges Radio 24 januari 2017: ''Abortvägrande barnmorskan välkomnar lobbyns stöd''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825051911/http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=6615313 |date=August 25, 2017 }}. Retrieved January 24, 2017</ref> Nordström co-wrote an opinion piece opposing abortion rights with an ADF representative for [[Sveriges Television]], Sweden's national public television broadcaster.<ref>[http://www.svt.se/opinion/sverige-behover-ett-starkare-rattsskydd-for-ofodda-barn SVT 23 augusti 2013: ''Sverige behöver ett starkare rättsskydd för ofödda barn''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002082838/https://www.svt.se/opinion/sverige-behover-ett-starkare-rattsskydd-for-ofodda-barn |date=October 2, 2022 }}. Retrieved January 24, 2017</ref>

====Campaigns against assisted suicide====
The ADF has campaigned against the legalization of [[voluntary euthanasia]] in the United Kingdom.<ref name="uk-spending" /> The group has also challenged the right to euthanasia in Belgium, before the [[European Court of Human Rights]].<ref name="belgium">{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/right-die-belgium-inside-worlds-liberal-euthanasia-laws | title=The right to die in Belgium: An inside look at the world's most liberal euthanasia law | work=[[PBS NewsHour]] | publisher=PBS | date=January 15, 2015 | access-date=March 20, 2022 | archive-date=March 21, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321005230/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/right-die-belgium-inside-worlds-liberal-euthanasia-laws | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite report | url=https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/cp_belgium_eng.pdf | title=Press Country Profile | publisher=European Court of Human Rights | date=January 2022 | access-date=March 20, 2022 | archive-date=March 4, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304231433/https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/CP_Belgium_ENG.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> ADF India also campaigns against assisted suicide and euthanasia.<ref name="adfindia2">{{cite web | title=Affirm Dignity - End Euthanasia | website=ADF India | date=June 17, 2020 | url=https://adfindia.org/campaigns/affirm-dignity-end-euthanasia/ | access-date=2023-03-05 | archive-date=March 6, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306043050/https://adfindia.org/campaigns/affirm-dignity-end-euthanasia/ | url-status=live }}</ref>