ADF Senior Counsel Greg Chafuen:  “Patients are best served by health care professionals who are free to act consistent with their oath to ‘do no harm.’ Unfortunately, doctors and nurses have been targeted for caring for their patients by refraining from harmful and dangerous procedures….”

WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a pregnancy resource center network and an organization of Christian employers filed a motion Thursday to intervene in Samuels v. Trump for the purpose of protecting the authority of a U.S. president to direct executive branch policy and thus to fire senior federal officials who reach their position of authority by presidential appointment.

ADF Senior Counsel Greg Chafuen:  “Protecting free speech rights and whistleblower protections for health care professionals is good for doctors, good for patients, and good for medicine. Patients receive the best care when doctors can speak freely and express their opinion about harmful procedures without fear of government punishment….”