Dem AGs target pro-life pregnancy centers over abortion reversal pill

Democratic attorneys general are targeting pro-life pregnancy centers over their advertisements and use of the abortion reversal pill, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Monday.

New Jersey, California, and Washington are being accused of going after pro-life organizations, claiming the clinics are spreading “misinformation” and “misleading” women about the abortion reversal pill.

Last week, the Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit against New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D), claiming he “selectively targeted First Choice Women’s Resource Centers based on its religious speech and pro-life views with a wide-ranging, unfounded, and burdensome subpoena that requires the organization to expend its limited resources to produce extensive documentation or face judicial sanctions.”

According to the complaint, the attorney general’s subpoena “does not refer to any substantive evidence of wrongdoing to justify his onerous demands.”

Platkin previously issued a consumer alert about crisis pregnancy centers, noting that they “do NOT provide abortion care.”

“CPCs are organizations that seek to prevent people from accessing comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion care and contraception,” the alert stated. “CPCs may also provide false or misleading information about abortion—including the physical and mental health effects of abortion—to deter people from choosing abortion.”

ADF senior counsel Lincoln Wilson called the attorney general’s actions “unlawful.”

“Attorney General Platkin has aligned himself with Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion mission and even enlisted its help to target pro-life pregnancy centers like our client First Choice. The U.S. Constitution protects First Choice Ministry’s right to freely speak its beliefs, freely exercise its faith, freely associate with like-minded individuals and organizations, and continue to provide its free services in a caring and compassionate environment to women and men facing difficult pregnancy circumstances,” Wilson stated.

The ADF filed a similar lawsuit last month against Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson of Washington on behalf of two pro-life nonprofits. Ferguson accused Obria Group and Obria Medical Groups PNW of deceptively marketing the abortion reversal pill, progesterone.

In September, California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta sued two pregnancy centers, claiming that the clinics spread false information about the use of progesterone to reverse the effects of mifepristone, the abortion pill, Blaze News previously reported.

Mifepristone works by blocking progesterone receptors. Women who wish to reverse a chemical abortion may be able to do so by taking progesterone, which is a necessary hormone for pregnancy.

Bonta’s lawsuit claimed that the use of the progesterone to reverse abortions is “scientifically unproven and risky.” He accused pro-life pregnancy centers of being “predatory” and targeting vulnerable patients.

Aimee Huber, executive director of First Choice, told the DCNF that the abortion reversal pill “may be effective” or “it may not be effective” when taken after mifepristone.

“But that is something that she can choose to take if she changes her mind about her abortion,” Huber explained.

“We are simply there to serve women who are scared and vulnerable and think abortion is their only option,” Huber continued. “And there are certainly people that don’t like what we do, and we’re feeling that today.”

Gabriella McIntyre with the ADF told the DCNF that legal action against pro-life pregnancy centers will likely “pick up” as Democratic attorneys general become more “aggressive.”

“This is not an isolated incident. We’re seeing this as part of a larger trend of hostility towards pro-life organizations and particularly towards pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation,” McIntyre told the outlet. “These attorneys general are targeting and harassing pregnancy centers, because of their religious and pro-life views. They are using their consumer protection authority to accomplish their purpose, which is clearly to divert and impede the mission of these organizations to serve women and families, and instead shift their focus to complying with these unfounded and unjustified demands.”

Platkin, Bonta, and Ferguson’s offices did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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