Our pro-life pregnancy ministries in New York are facing an existential threat at the hands of the Empire State’s pro-abortion Attorney General, Letitia James.
Last week, NY AG Letitia James blitzed at least a dozen pregnancy help organizations—like our clients Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and other pregnancy centers—with a “Notice of Intention to Sue,” threatening ruinous prosecution that could shut down every pregnancy center in New York.
Her threat letter falsely accuses New York’s life-affirming pro-life ministries of “repeated and persistent misleading statements and omissions” about Abortion Pill Reversal.
AG James gave our pro-life clients only 5 business days to respond to why the hammer shouldn’t be dropped on them for “false advertising.”
They face $5,000 in fines for every violation: that’s $5,000 for every time that Heartbeat and our brave centers take a phone call from a desperate pregnant woman trying to save her baby or say anything to the public about Abortion Pill Reversal.
We didn’t wait 5 days… We immediately jumped in to defend our pro-life ministries and their constitutional rights. We’ve just gone on the offensive and filed a hard-hitting lawsuit for an immediate injunction against Attorney General James.
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It’s unconscionable that Letitia James and the New York government protect abortionists and celebrate abortion on demand up until birth.
On behalf of Heartbeat, CompassCare, and a dozen pregnancy centers in total across the Empire State, we moved at rapid speed, launching a frontal assault to stop Letitia James in her tracks and block her threatened prosecution.
This latest threat could bankrupt New York’s pregnancy centers and shut down the pro-life movement’s efforts to help pregnant moms with counseling and assistance so they will choose life for their babies.
As you may remember, California Attorney General Rob Bonta came after Heartbeat and California pregnancy centers late last year, suing them to censor their right to help women save their babies through Abortion Pill Reversal, or “APR” for short…
We’re proudly defending Heartbeat in that case, to protect their right to help these pregnant mothers and their babies. Now, Letitia James is copying Bonta’s playbook wholesale and turning up the heat, by targeting Heartbeat and a swath of pregnancy centers.
Here’s the truth: APR works—Heartbeat has records of thousands of pregnancies saved and babies born because of APR.
If Letitia James succeeds, pregnant mothers who are in the middle of a chemical abortion—and immediately regret it—will have nowhere to turn. Our pro-life pregnancy centers would be censored from providing these mothers the urgent access to Abortion Pill Reversal that they need.
In these moments, every minute and every hour counts. If our pregnancy centers are not able to help these mothers, their precious babies will die.
The abortion lobby and their allies in government, like Letitia James, want to force pregnant mothers to complete dangerous chemical abortions they do not want—even if the abortion was started against these mothers’ will, by force or by trick. We’re going to court to make sure she doesn’t get her way.
Letitia James claims that offering Abortion Pill Reversal or sharing information about it is “misleading” and “false advertising.” But the truth is, she and her allies at Planned Parenthood are the ones actually deceiving women about the dangerous effects of the abortion pill—and misleading women about the real success of Abortion Pill Reversal…
Our lawsuit aims to combat her vindictive attack on all fronts. We will defend the right of our pregnancy help organizations to provide free, charitable, loving support to pregnant mothers and their babies.
Here are the facts:
- More than 5,000 women have had successful abortion pill reversals, and that number grows higher each day.
- The First Amendment protects the right of our non-profit pro-life ministries to help pregnant mothers—free of charge—and continue sharing critical information about Abortion Pill Reversal.
- Even the U.S. FDA concluded that the abortion pill “is antagonized by progesterone allowing for normal pregnancy and delivery.”
The facts speak for themselves. While we can’t guarantee a result, we are confident in our legal position and the quality of our ace Thomas More Society attorneys.
Letitia James’ assault on pregnancy centers would be a death knell for our pro-life ministries in New York.
Please pray for our brave pro-life ministry clients as we go into court to fight on their behalf and for our legal team on the frontlines of this battle.
LifeNews Note: Peter Breen is the Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation for the Thomas More Society.
