Thomas More Society's 2025 Impact Report is here, and the story it tells is one of belief turned into action.  

2025 opened with a momentous victory. Following pardon petitions submitted by Thomas More Society attorneys, President Trump granted full presidential pardons for Paul Vaughn and 23 other peaceful pro-life advocates unjustly prosecuted under the weaponized FACE Act.  

The year closed with another historic win against California’s gender secrecy regime—which quickly made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and culminated in the ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta striking down California’s secret school gender transition policies and reshaped parental rights law for a generation.

Between those bookends, our attorneys fought on battlefronts across the country, defending brave individuals who refuse to back down, even when standing for the truth costs them everything.

Inside the report, you’ll find stories you won’t read anywhere else:

• "You Can't Unsee the Truth" A candid conversation with Pasha Bohlen, a nurse who has spent over two decades counseling women at Pregnancy Aid Illinois, on the life-saving work of pregnancy centers and her testimony in federal court against Illinois' abortion referral mandate (p. 22).

• "Common Sense" TMS Special Counsel Paul M. Jonna takes us behind the scenes of litigating Mirabelli v. Bonta all the way to the Supreme Court, and what the ruling means for parents nationwide (p. 18).

• Closed: How we fought from a Rockford zoning board to the Illinois Appellate Court to shut down a residential abortion business operating on an expired 1982 permit (p. 24).

• Calling Foul: The story of how a Pennsylvania father's son finally got to play football, after our litigation forced the PIAA to open public school sports to religious-school students statewide (p. 26).

• Defending Second Chances: Why we're fighting the coast-to-coast campaign to silence pregnancy centers that save lives. (p. 28).

• Off Limits: How we gave Bishop Robert Barron a legal voice in defeating Washington State's attack on the Sacrament of Confession (p. 36).

• And much more.

As President & Chief Counsel Tom Brejcha writes in his introduction, "It takes courage not only to profess the truth but to act on it." The 2025 Impact Report is a tribute to the clients who show that courage, and to mission partners who make their defense possible.

Read the full report to see what your partnership built this year.  

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