‍Welcome to the TMS Weekly Dispatch for August 4, 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:

TMS WINS FOR FLORIDA PRO-LIFER: On Thursday, Thomas More Society attorney Matt Heffron announced that Google has returned data that it withheld from Florida pro-life leader Trudy Perez-Poveda—property which it had held from her for nearly two years. Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit against Google after it locked Trudy’s Google account immediately after she sent an email to her pro-life advocacy group inviting them to a prayer gathering outside of a Jacksonville abortion business.  

“It has been a bizarre journey, but thanks to Trudy’s courage in standing up to Google and demanding what belonged to her, she got back what was rightfully hers,” said Heffron.  

CATHOLIC SCHOOL FAMILIES SUE PENNSYLVANIA’S INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION: TMS attorneys are back in federal court fighting for parochial school families to ensure equal access to taxpayer-funded resources in education—in the face of a discriminatory policy that remains on the books despite a recent court settlement recognizing it as incongruent with the First Amendment.

Parochial school families represented by Thomas More Society have sued the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) on Wednesday, beginning a second round of Thomas More Society’s fight against a religious discrimination against religious school students in Pennsylvania.

In June, Thomas More Society secured victory for parochial school families in Pennsylvania’s State College Area School District (SCASD), ensuring equal access to the local school district’s  taxpayer-funded athletics and extracurriculars for families who choose to give their children a faith-based education but do not have access to those benefits at their religious school. Now, the fight continues as the PIAA continues to illegally discriminate against Pennsylvania’s parochial students, by blocking religious school students who do not have certain athletic programs in at their parochial school from competing with the public school district’s team even though charter school and homeschool students are permitted to participate.  

“PIAA is forcing [families] to choose between their religious beliefs and the generally available benefit of participation in PIAA governed interscholastic athletic activities that are not offered at their respective parochial schools,” states the Complaint.  

“Educational experiences,” observed TMS Special Counsel Thomas Breth, be it in the classroom or on the field, are integral to the development of young students, and those opportunities cannot be denied to students based solely on their families’ faith-based educational choice.”

TMS FILES REPLY BRIEF IN INDIANA ABORTION RECORDS LAWSUIT: On July 28, TMS attorneys filed their Reply Brief in Caitlin Bernard and Caroline Rouse v. Voices for Life, the ongoing battle to ensure accountability from abortionists and the abortion industry broadly in Indiana.  

The Reply Brief succinctly outlined why the two Indiana abortionists suing Voices for Life, Caitlin Bernard and Caroline Rouse, have no standing to sue, lacking a “legally protecting interest” and evidence of clear injury done to them by Indiana’s abortion reporting laws, which mandate that all abortionists must complete a Terminated Pregnancy Report for each abortion they perform.

From the Reply Brief:

“Bernard’s own testimony shows that she is misleading her patients by telling them that the TPR contains patient information. It does not. The TPR contains information about the procedure, but the information is not linked to the patient. Bernard’s misleading characterization of her legal duty to file a TPR is a transparent effort to manufacture the injury she would use to establish standing. Standing cannot be premised on a manufactured injury.”

In their report, the state health department found that Eskenazi Health and IU Health have refused to comply with state law and have stopped submitting completed TPRs—underscoring the necessity to restore public accountability and transparency in abortion reporting. As previously reported, Drs. Bernard and Rouse, who have sued Voices for Life and the state to stop the release of TPRs, admitted under oath in an earlier court hearing that they also have failed to submit completed TPRs in at least one instance since December 2024.