Family Research Council

by Chris Gacek

February 29, 2016: The untimely passing of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has launched an intense political debate. Essentially, the two positions are that the Senate should consider any nomination sent to it by President Barack Obama or that it should wait to consider a nomination from the next President who will have received a fresh mandate from the American people in the November 2016 election.

by Chris Gacek

April 20, 2015: On April 28, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges and three other appeals in key marriage cases.

by Chris Gacek

August 03, 2014: Same-sex marriage is a novel concept that is not as old as Google or Facebook, yet it is leading some courts to re-imagine the rights endowed by the U.S. Constitution and re-write human history.

by Chris Gacek

April 11, 2014: Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, seated in Denver, heard oral arguments on a very significant case in the national debate over the definition of marriage. That case, Kitchen v. Herbert, was an appeal of Judge Robert Shelby's district court's decision striking down Utah's marriage amendment and related statutes.

by Chris Gacek

July 05, 2013: Since the approval of the mifepristone regimen by the FDA in 2000, FRC staff have closely studied the adverse effects of this abortion regimen releasing one such report in May 2012.

by Chris Gacek

March 28, 2013: During this week's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys and justices will consider not just specific laws, but the ultimate question of whether the Supreme Court should redefine marriage in America.

by Chris Gacek

March 04, 2013: Should Proposition 8 be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case it now has before it, Hollingsworth v. Perry?

by Chris Gacek

January 28, 2013: FRC publicly supported the successful effort to adopt Proposition 8, as well as similar amendments in other States. FRC, therefore, has a particular interest in the outcome of this case.

by Chris Gacek

November 01, 2012: Family Research Council and Focus on the Family submitted an amicus brief, written by Professor Gerard Bradley of Notre Dame, in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, a case challenging New Hampshire's law requiring parental notice for minors seeking abortions.

by Chris Gacek

May 22, 2012: On April 30, 2011 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff completed a one-page assessment of the adverse event reports (AERs) it has collected on mifepristone (RU-486; Mifeprex®), the primary drug in the only medical abortion regimen approved in the United States.