TMS WEEKLY DISPATCH 8/11/25
Here’s the latest news from the past week at Thomas More Society, in our legal battles defending life, family, and freedom.
Welcome to the TMS Weekly Dispatch for August 11, 2025—with the latest news and updates from the front line, to keep you in-the-know on all things Thomas More Society. If you missed last week’s edition, you can read it here.
Here's a look back at the past week:
ON THE BLOG — COOK COUNTY DOLES OUT $2 MILLION TO CHICAGO ABORTION FUND WHILE TARGETING PREGNANCY HELP MINISTRIES: As Cook County—home to Chicago—continues to be plagued by financial troubles, it evidently sees no issues with earmarking millions for abortion.
Last week, Cook County issued a $2 million grant to the Chicago Abortion Fund, while continuing its targeting of Illinois’ pregnancy help ministries through laws intended to shutter their doors and deny women access to life-affirming abortion alternatives.
Find the details on the TMS Blog here.
WORLD — "FAMILIES CALL FOUL PLAY ON PRIVATE-PUBLIC SCHOOL SPORTS DIVIDE": WORLD Magazine, a prominent Christian news publication, reported last week on the recently-filed Thomas More Society lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletics Association (PIAA), speaking to two families that are our plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
“If this goes the way that we hope, then these kids will have the ability to participate in the sports and get the education in the place that they want. I don’t know why anyone would want to limit kids’ ability to participate in sports,” Justin Kurpeikis, a father represented by Thomas More Society in the lawsuit, told WORLD.
Families like the Kurpeikises have been denied equal access to athletic opportunities by the PIAA, in what TMS argues is a clear and unconstitutional violation of their First Amendment rights, simply because they choose a faith-based education for their children.
“It doesn’t seem right, because the homeschoolers and the kids who go to [charter schools] were able to participate,” C. Grier Yartz, another parochial school parent represented by TMS, told WORLD. “We want to be treated like the other kids—we pay taxes in the district.”
Thomas More Society is fighting to ensure all of Pennsylvania’s parochial school families are treated equally by the PIAA—asserting that students should not be denied opportunities afforded to their homeschool, charter, and public school peers simply because they go to a religious school.
