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Francis J. Manion is Senior Counsel with the ACLJ who emphasizes First Amendment law and pro-life legal matters before state and federal courts.
A 1980 graduate of Seton Hall School of Law, Manion honed his litigation skills with more than 15 years of experience as a trial attorney in private law firms where he served as trial counsel on behalf of pro-life demonstrators. He joined the ACLJ in 1996 and emphasizes protecting constitutional rights in the public school, the work environment, and the public arena.
Manion also emphasizes defending the public displays of the Ten Commandments and other historic displays that are part of our nation’s heritage. He also focuses on safeguarding the rights of medical personnel who are often required by employers to violate their consciences and religious beliefs by participating in pregnancy-ending procedures.
It’s been nearly three years since a nurse in Vermont first contacted the ACLJ with what was the most blatant and horrifying account of a conscience rights’ violation we had ever heard. As we told you , our client, a surgical nurse with over ten years’ experience, worked at the University of...
It’s hard to imagine a less offensive bumper sticker than the generic “We Vote Pro-Life” sticker we’ve all seen while sitting in traffic or maybe walking through our church’s parking lot. Nothing edgy, no graphic pictures, nothing in your face. Just four words, usually superimposed on an American...
Not wishing to waste a good pandemic apparently, pro-abortion forces in Kentucky tried to ram through the Louisville Metro Council something they’ve failed to get several times over the past decade: a pro-life speech squashing buffer zone in front of Kentucky’s sole abortion mill in downtown...
Throughout the current pandemic we’ve been hearing about the tireless efforts of health care workers striving to save lives in sometimes hellish situations, exposing themselves to deadly disease with, all too often, tragic consequences. We’ve seen images of nurses walking through gauntlets of...
Even with the nation and the world hunkering down and sheltering in place to escape a global pandemic, our pro-life work at the ACLJ continues amid the crisis. Just as the forces that devalue life in its most defenseless stages are taking no rest from their destructive work, neither can we stop...
A few months ago we told you about our lawsuit on behalf of a pro-life nurse in Indiana who was turned down for a faculty position at Indiana University South Bend (“IUSB”). Our client, Cynthia Isabell, was denied a full-time faculty job at IUSB for which she was eminently well-qualified after...
Back in June we reported here how the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” had caught Planned Parenthood and other big abortion proponents in a whopper of a lie about the number of deaths from abortion in the bad old days before Roe v. Wade . The Post found that Planned Parenthood’s oft-repeated...
You may have seen this past week's headlines from a variety of news outlets loudly proclaiming the death of conscience rights: “ Trump’s ‘conscience rule’ for health providers blocked by federal judge .” “ Second federal judge strikes down Trump’s ‘conscience protection’ rule for health care...
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