In 2018, the South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services determined that the state’s abortion providers were unqualified to receive state Medicaid funding. Citing a state law prohibiting the use of its own public funds for abortion, South Carolina announced in July 2018 that Planned Parenthood could no longer participate in the State’s Medicaid program. At the same time, the State…
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Dr. Peter Gross is an observant Jew whose faith is central to his life. After he was sued for medical malpractice, the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas scheduled his jury trial on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar and has been observed by faithful Jews for millennia. The court refused to move the trial one day, and it removed a Jewish juror because she could…
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In a major victory for religious liberty, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has vindicated a chaplain who was wrongly punished for preaching a sermon on a chapter of the Bible his supervisor labeled “divisive”, reversed a Pennsylvania VA hospital’s effort to censor chaplains’ religious speech, and protected the rights of chaplains nationwide. Chaplain Russell “Rusty” Trubey, a respected…
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Religious residents at an apartment complex in Pennsylvania for senior citizens and people with disabilities received an unwelcome surprise in their mailboxes in March of 2025. The apartment complex sent a letter to all its residents, explicitly banning them from having “Bible studies or meetings” in common areas. The rule also prohibited any religious materials, religious signs, or religious…
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In Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed whether a state could exclude religious schools from its charter school program solely because of the school’s religious identity. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School applied for and was approved as a charter school by the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, which determined…
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The Pennsylvania Constitution contains no right to an abortion or to taxpayer funded abortions, but the abortion industry is asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to find (invent) one in a case they filed, Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. The case, brought by a consortium of abortion clinics (including Planned Parenthood) argues that the court should…
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