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“The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS every day that either lead our nation toward a respect for life or away from it, and HHS under our administration always stood for life.

I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades.

For the majority of his career, RFK Jr. has defended abortion on demand during all nine months of pregnancy, supports overturning the Dobbs decision and has called for legislation to codify Roe v Wade. If confirmed, RFK, Jr. would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history.

The  pro-life movement has always looked to the Republican party to stand for life, to affirm an unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed.

On behalf of tens of millions of pro-life Americans, I respectfully urge Senate Republicans to reject this nomination and give the American people a leader who will respect the sanctity of life as secretary of Health and Human Services.”

For a record of the Trump-Pence Administration’s Health and Human Services on life visit here.

“The American people have spoken clearly through the ballot box and have elected conservative senators and congressmen in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Montana. We were proud to stand with these conservatives as they ran to advance a pro-growth economic agenda,” said AAF President Tim Chapman. “These results are not only a massive repudiation of the left’s policies, but a clear embrace of lower taxes and economic policy that will benefit American families. Advancing American Freedom will build on our targeted advocacy work in these states and continue to advocate for the policies necessary to help our nation thrive.”

Advancing American Freedom’s $5 million voter engagement campaign in the final stretch of the election identified and mobilized lower propensity voters in swing states, creating a new voting block that supports a conservative pro-growth agenda. AAF will continue to recruit and expand this new voting coalition to achieve greater long-term conservative policy victories.

Protecting American Taxpayers: Montana
Protecting American Taxpayers: Pennsylvania
Protecting American Taxpayers: Ohio

Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 27 other amici fighting for the right of children not to have their healthy bodies permanently and harmfully altered as “treatment” for gender dysphoria—a right Tennessee sought to protect by outlawing such interventions. In United States v. Skrmetti, now before the Supreme Court, the Federal Government is challenging Tennessee’s common- sense law, claiming that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. If adopted by the Court, that absurd interpretation, which would have been incomprehensible to those who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, would further undermine America’s federalist system, turn the principles underlying the Equal Protection Clause on their head, and, most importantly, put children and families around the country at risk.

“The Constitution does not prevent states from protecting children from this sort of harm, nor would it have ever been ratified if it did,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “The Federal Government must stop trying to impose San Francisco values on the rest of the nation, especially when it comes to children.”

Read the full brief here.

Advancing American Freedom continues its fight against the Biden-Harris Administration’s reinterpretation of Title IX, leading a coalition of 48 other amici in an amicus brief in Kansas v. Department of Education. Following the disappointing Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, the Department of Education issued a regulation reinterpreting Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination to fancifully include discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Several cases around the country, including Kansas v. Department of Education, are challenging this abandonment of reality. While the rule claims not to apply to sports, its logic basically destroys distinctions between men and women wherever Title IX applies. And the numbers don’t lie. Women and girls need sports and private spaces from which men are excluded.

“Advancing American Freedom, joined by dozens of fellow amici, have now filed three amicus briefs supporting challenges to the Biden-Harris Administration’s unlawful and absurd reinterpretation of Title IX,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “If the courts rule for the Biden-Harris Administration in these cases, the relationship between women and their educational institutions around the country will fundamentally change for the worse. AAF intends to stand for the truth for its own sake and for all those who will suffer if America fails to live in reality.”

Read the full brief here.

The Eleventh Circuit has ruled for Mom’s for Liberty in its challenge to the Brevard County School Board’s absurd speech restriction policies. The court repeatedly criticized the Board’s enforcement of these policies, which it used to repeatedly silence parents raising concerns relating to COVID-19 and LGBT issues in their kids’ schools. As the court explained regarding the school board’s policy prohibiting speech about board members, “Asking if the Board’s approach to this policy was ‘haphazard’ is like asking if the sky is blue—enforcement was so inconsistent that it is impossible to discern the standard used to assess which speech was permitted at any given meeting.” The Board had also cut off a parent who was reading from a sexually explicit book found in a school library. Getting to the heart of the issue, the court noted, “[I]t is remarkable for the Board to suggest that this speech can be prohibited in a school board meeting because it is inappropriate for children when it came directly from a book that is available to children in their elementary school library.” Advancing American Freedom is proud to have led a coalition of 13 other amici supporting Moms for Liberty and the courageous parents it represents.

“We applaud the courts ruling and its clarity,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Parents everywhere, and especially in Florida and the other states covered by the Eleventh Circuit, should be encouraged to continue fighting to hold their elected representatives accountable when those representatives try to use schools as centers of woke indoctrination.”

AAF’s amicus brief in this case can be found here.