A federal judge imposed a preliminary injunction on Attorney General Letitia James' ability to crack down on the speech of pro-life pregnancy centers, Just the News reported. The case involves whether these centers can recommend abortion pill reversal services to women regretting their decision.
James is attempting to deny centers the right to advise clients that there is a way to stop chemical abortions once they're started. Using anti-fraud laws, James pursued pro-life pregnancy centers that called abortion pill reversal safe and effective in social media posts, promotional materials, and other ads.
This prompted the Options Care Center, Gianna's House, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates to sue the state. Now, U.S. District Judge John Sinatra's order Thursday halts that action against the plaintiffs.
Caleb Dalton, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom representing the organizations, celebrated the ruling. "Women in New York have literally saved their babies from an in-progress chemical drug abortion because they had access to information through their local pregnancy centers."
Leftists in government on both coasts have attempted to limit the dissemination of information about abortion pill reversal. Attorneys General have sued pro-life pregnancy centers, but the win against James marks the "first substantial ruling" against this action.
The decision came from a Tump-appointed judge who noted that even if the government crackdown fell under "commercial speech," which is more regulated, he would still rule the same. Still, it sets the precedent for other cases that could proceed similarly.
Notably, other challenges to these legal crackdowns provide additional avenues to fight back. For instance, Bob Ferguson, who is the Washington attorney general and gubernatorial nominee, abandoned his pursuit after the Obria Medical Clinics PNW threatened to countersue after its insurer nonrenewed the medical group's policy which provided ammunition for legal action.
Unfortunately, these attacks are not just coming in the form of legal action from government officials. Crisis pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations have been attacked 93 times since the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, was leaked.
"While the Department of Justice continues to mercilessly target peaceful pro-lifers, violent activists like those who vandalized Aid for Women, escape relatively unpunished," a news release from the organization said Friday. Instead, the justice system mounts its own attack on those seeking to save babies.
People who regret starting a chemical abortion have a right to know if there's a procedure that can halt the process that kills their babies. Unfortunately, that doesn't fit with the narrative pushed by pro-abortion politicians who attack life in the womb.
Proponents of abortion pill reversal claim that administering high doses of natural progesterone to women who have taken mifepristone, which blocks the hormone, negates the effects of the medication. Studies haven't specifically proven this, but an Ivy League-trained reproductive research chief told the New York Times that the mechanism "makes biological sense."
Even Planned Parenthood admits that the two-step drug protocol may not work if both drugs aren't given. "Studies on the abortion pill do show that if you take the first medicine but not the second, the abortion pill is less likely to work," a blog post on its site notes.
Another section outlining the protocol to induce abortion notes that the second medication, misoprostol, "causes the uterus to empty." This means if blocking progesterone doesn't kill a fetus, taking a pill that causes the body to expel the baby will finish the job.
It's no wonder the anti-life crowd doesn't want the public to know there may be an escape hatch before the second pill is taken. However, it's disturbing that they have the support of so many in the justice system to suppress that knowledge.
