Experts for the Alliance Defense Fund and Christian Legal Society are gearing up to defend three laws that allow medical professionals to follow their conscience and not participate in abortions.

'Medical professionals should not be forced to perform abortions against their conscience,' said Casey Mattox, litigation counsel with the CLS's Center for Law & Religious Freedom.

'Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and their pro-abortion allies are seeking to punish pro-life medical professionals for their beliefs,' Mattox said. 'Far from arguing for 'choice,' these lawsuits seek to compel health care workers to perform abortions or face dire consequences.'

The public-interest legal groups have filed motions to intervene in three separate lawsuits that seek to invalidate a federal law protecting medical professionals from discrimination because they refuse to participate in abortions. ....