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November 19, 2024

Office of Management and Budget Review; Legal and Advocacy Services for Unaccompanied Children

The unaccompanied minors that the Office of Refugee Resettlement works with are some of the most vulnerable children on the planet. Asking youth about whether they have a non-binary gender identity would only further confuse them, potentially leading them to follow the path of making a life-altering decision with permanent destructive consequences. Introducing such children to the concept, which is likely less common in many of the countries they are fleeing, may actively encourage them to adopt such an identity in hopes that it could give them a “special” advantage to staying in the United States. In the fundamental interest of operation upon a foundation of truth in the medical field and the right to life of the unborn, Advancing American Freedom demands that the Department of Health and Human Services withdraw the information collection revisions and reassign staff who worked on it to more suitable positions, where they are not a danger to public health.

Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services

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AAF Fights the Weaponization of Title X to Push Abortion on Prolife States

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 36 other amici fighting the federal government’s weaponization of Title X funding to punish states that seek to protect life. Oklahoma’s life-protecting law has been on the books since 1907 and became enforceable when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Consistent with its recognition of the value of unborn life, the State’s health department does not refer pregnant women to a hotline that will tell them how to get an abortion. In pursuit of a radical abortion agenda, the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withdrew the State’s Title X funding by “reinterpreting” a statutory prohibition against such discrimination.   

“The Federal administrative state has no authority to reinterpret statutory language to mean its opposite, yet that is exactly what HHS did here. The age of Chevron Deference is over. Courts must enforce statutes as written, not as read by unelected bureaucrats,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “The Supreme Court should take up this case and rule for Oklahoma to ensure that the landmark decisions overturning Roe and Chevron are followed by the administrative state and lower federal courts.”

Read the full brief here.