Who We Are
The Thomas More Society is a not-for-profit, national public interest law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty. Our mission is to save lives and protect traditional family values and religious freedom. Based in Chicago, with offices in Omaha and New York, the Thomas More Society defends and fosters support for these causes by providing high quality free legal services from local trial courts all the way to the United States Supreme Court. We do all our work through the generous support of private donations from people all across the country and in various parts of the world. The number of cases we take, and the legal work we do depends solely on the generosity of our donors.
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What We Do
The Thomas More Society has assisted thousands of clients including some of the nation’s most renowned pro-life and religious leaders: Abby Johnson, David Daleiden, David Bereit, 40 Days for Life, Lila Rose and Live Action, Joe, Ann and Eric Scheidler and Pro-Life Action League, Sidewalk Advocates for Life, Created Equal, Pro-Life Action Ministries, Troy Newman and Operation Rescue, Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities, Dioceses, Religious Orders, and many more. To learn more: Click Here.
Protecting the First Amendment rights of those who pray and counsel outside our nation’s abortion facilities
Defending laws that protect human life from conception to natural death
Ensuring the free expression of religion in the public square
Respecting family values
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Your Support Gives Us Courage
In Focus
The Thomas More Society is a national law firm dedicated to fighting courageous courtroom battles across this country in defense of clients who otherwise could not afford legal counsel. Our clients, such as the Children of the Immaculate Heart, have the courage to fight back against a secular culture of death which is increasingly anti-religious and hostile toward people of faith.
Courage is the bedrock of life. We have to stand up against a secular society that seeks to silence our message, our participation in civic society, and our ability to worship. We are the Thomas More Society, and your support gives us courage.
In June we filed two big lawsuits in New York and Illinois. We also filed a brief defending Catholic Charities against discriminatory foster care policies in Philadelphia. We are working tirelessly to defend your faith and protect your 1st Amendment rights. Scroll down to read more details about our latest legal battles across the nation. We are here for you. We will not stop fighting to turn the tide.
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Your generous support allows the Thomas More Society to fight for a culture of life, faith and family in the courtroom, going head-to-head with the abortion industry and the secular Left.
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Latest Case Highlights
Our Thomas More Society fights in defense of the fundamental truth at the heart of our Catholic religious faith: that each and every human being is clothed with an inherent, transcendent value and dignity and vested with an inalienable right to life, no matter how rich or poor, humble or exalted, wanted or unwanted.
Please support these and our other efforts to restore respect for life in law:
Rescue Home Licence Issued
Thomas More Society Helps Children of the Immaculate Heart Informally Resolve the Litigation with the California Department of Social Services Over the Licensing of Its Rescue Home for Trafficked Youth
Big Win in New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is wrong to limit worship services yet condone mass protests, according to a federal judge. After telling Thomas More Society attorneys in a June 18, 2020 hearing that he was “troubled by” the government’s responses,
IL Abortion Insurance Mandate
Our firm has sued the State of Illinois to challenge a law requiring all health insurance policies sold in the state to provide coverage for elective chemical and surgical abortions, with no exemptions, even for churches. Continue reading
Cuomo & de Blasio Sued
We have filed a federal lawsuit against New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on behalf of two Catholic priests from upstate New York and a trio of Orthodox Jewish congregants from Brooklyn. Continue reading
Foster Care Discrimination
In Philadelphia there is a foster care law on the books that seeks to force Catholic Charities and other religious foster care agencies to contradict their deeply held religious beliefs or lose ability to participate in the foster care system. Continue reading
Burned Church Wins Injunction
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted an injunction pending appeal to the First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The church, which was destroyed this week in an arson fire, had sued the city