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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.
Recently, we told you about our important victory in a First Amendment lawsuit we filed against the State of California’s misguided attempt to force pro-life pregnancy care centers to act as referral agencies for the abortion industry. That case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court which...
No sooner had the disastrous results of Ireland’s recent referendum to repeal that country’s longstanding constitutional protection of unborn children been announced, than the pro-abortion side began making noises about the need to coerce even religiously objecting doctors and nurses into...
As reported here , we recently sued the City of New York in federal court over a city law that was being used by some city police to threaten with jail peaceful sidewalk counselors who came within fifteen feet of the entrance of abortion businesses. The law, Administrative Code §8-803 makes it...
Pro-abortion laws are increasingly targeting pro-life free speech, but we’re fighting back. A few months ago we reported on our sweeping victory in U.S. District Court in New Jersey on behalf of prolife sidewalk counselor, Jeryl Turco. In that case, the federal court ruled that the City of...
The Supreme Court of the United States has long recognized that the right to use public sidewalks “for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions . . . has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of...
More than two years ago, we filed a lawsuit against the City of Englewood, New Jersey, challenging its then recently enacted ordinance creating a buffer-zone outside the Metropolitan Medical Associates abortion clinic. We reported on the case here . That ordinance made it unlawful for people like...
The writer G.K. Chesterton once made the following observation: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a tri-angle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the...
For years now, the abortion industry has been working hard to suppress the right of prolife crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to address life issues with their clients in the way they deem appropriate and consistent with the centers' religious principles. The pro-abortion forces have succeeded in...
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