Thomas More Society
Thomas More Society is a national, not-for-profit public interest law firm based in Chicago that provides pro bono legal services and litigation from local courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court. It focuses on defending causes related to the right to life, religious liberty, free speech, marriage and family, and parental rights.www.thomasmoresociety.org
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Oct 15, 2026
Dan ProftHOST
And I was part of a group of pro lifers, Jim Finnegan, Joe Walsh, Jill Stanek, many others.
Dan ProftHOST
Tom Brekka representing us from the Thomas More Society to try to get that passed in the.
Dan ProftHOST
in the General Assembly.
Dan ProftHOST
And the Willises, because they're such godly people, wanted to get involved and do something constructive, try to do something constructive in Illinois against the backdrop of the horror, horrible tragedy that they suffered.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Yeah.
Tina DescovichGUEST
So we're suing with Thomas More Society on this one.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Wow.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Great partner.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Yeah.
Tina DescovichGUEST
So we're suing with the Thomas More Society on this one.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Wow.
Tina DescovichGUEST
Great partner.
Frank DeVitoHOST
There was one study, and this came up in the trial.
Frank DeVitoHOST
I'm curious to actually get a hold of the primary source, but the Thomas More Society lawyers argued this in their closing arguments.
Frank DeVitoHOST
It's in the brief that There was one study cited by the California Attorney General linking like high dose progesterone to some hemorrhaging problem.
Frank DeVitoHOST
I have a friend who's a doctor and the medical director of a pro-life pregnancy center who was pouring through these arguments and is now looking for that primary source because it seems from Thomas More Society's arguments that those those results were pretty intensely misrepresented.
Frank DeVitoHOST
which would track with what I've heard.
Frank DeVitoHOST
And again, I have five kids.
Frank DeVitoHOST
So if California prevails, well, first of all, I think this will go up on appeal pretty quickly, but this would certainly create a chilling effect, right? And cause other pro-life pregnancy centers to say, I don't know that we want to offer abortion pill reversal because we don't really want to be bankrupted by an aggressive attorney general.
Frank DeVitoHOST
So I'm particularly thankful to...
Joe McClaneHOST
A federal court in the Northern District of Illinois widened a temporary order barring the state from forcing religious objectors to take part in its assisted suicide law.
Joe McClaneHOST
In effect, since September the 12th, the St. Thomas More Society says nearly every Catholic health care institution in Illinois is now covered.
Joe McClaneHOST
Praise be to God.
Joe McClaneHOST
And those are your headline news.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
And in fact, even the 501[c][3] tax-exempt Christian grifts that plague our body politic to this very moment.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Outfits like the, uh, Thomas More Society or, uh, the, uh, uh, Alliance Demeaning-- Defaming Freedom.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Uh, the, the, the people who, uh, manufacture cases to take before our most puissant, dread sovereign Supreme Catholic Majesties, uh, leading to holdings of, uh, deeply held religious beliefs and, uh, um, uh, religious liberty.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Sit, Liberty.
Jeff TiberiiHOST
Let me, uh, okay, there's ignorance, there's, uh, uh, transphobia, there are people who don't want their, uh, kids in this classroom, a- and, and now what? Like, what are, what are they asking for? What is, I guess, at the crux of this quote unquote "debate"?
Liz SchlemmerCORRESPONDENT
So what's happened more recently is that some of these parents, uh, while they've been asking to opt their kids out of the class, say they haven't been allowed to, and they've engaged with attorneys from the Thomas More Society, who sent a letter to the school district saying, "We're giving you until the end of September to meet our request, or we intend to file a lawsuit."
Jeff TiberiiHOST
Okay.
Jeff TiberiiHOST
Now, Thomas More Society, but just for listeners who are not familiar, this is a conservative Catholic-affiliated law firm?
Liz SchlemmerCORRESPONDENT
Yes.
Liz SchlemmerCORRESPONDENT
And so they've-
Kyle NazarethHOST
And then one of the families that was raising a concern about this transgender teacher, they were doxxed online and received a bunch of profane texts from people in the school district.
Kyle NazarethHOST
So in response to all these incidents, the Thomas More Society, they represent the parents now.
Kyle NazarethHOST
And they sent the school district a letter on September 15th demanding that it grant the parents some religious accommodations, right? Like for the ability of the children to opt out of any class taught by the transgender teacher, that no student's going to be disciplined for using his actual real pronouns, right, the male pronouns for the male teacher, and that the gender identity and sexuality would not be discussed in advance in the classroom without parental notice, and that parents should be able to opt their students out of those kinds of discussions.
Kyle NazarethHOST
So getting into the kind of the legal analysis in the demand letter, it opens by saying that the parents, and this is a very important distinction, that the parents are not challenging the teacher's hiring and they're not asking the teacher get fired by the school district, right? They discussed the Bostock versus Clayton County case where the Supreme Court discussed and analyzed Title VII, right? The federal law banning employment discrimination, right? And the holding was that it does protect transgender employees, or one of the holdings that was mentioned.
Kyle NazarethHOST
And the letter from Thomas More Society concedes this and that the school had to follow that law in hiring.
Kyle NazarethHOST
But they do make an important distinction that Bostock governs how the school treats its employees.
Kyle NazarethHOST
Now, what the parents are objecting to are trying not to discuss the teacher's private life in the classroom.
Andrew KlosterGUEST
Jeff Clark just set out his own shingle.
Andrew KlosterGUEST
Then there are all of these groups that have been around that are doing gangbusters like Thomas More, pro-life group, and that got involved in some of the election stuff because they recognized we have the institution and we can fundraise not to keep the money but to – we have the institution.
Andrew KlosterGUEST
This work needs to be done.
Andrew KlosterGUEST
Let's pivot for a cycle and help out because there aren't these other groups.
John GerardiHOST
Well, I would be curious how – because, I mean, it's – If I'm recalling correctly, Beckett, which is the public interest law firm that's representing Heartbeat and Real Options, they have successfully fought off...
Kathryn Jean LopezGUEST
Thomas More is doing this
John GerardiHOST
one.
John GerardiHOST
Thomas More, sorry, I'm thinking Beckett.
John GerardiHOST
Other pro-lifers have fought off similar attacks on abortion pill reversal, I think specifically in Colorado.
John GerardiHOST
Yeah, Beckett did the Colorado one.
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