Pregnancy centers in New York State are fighting back against New York Attorney General Letitia James for trying to shut down their abortion pill reversal efforts. They help women who change their mind after taking the first part of the abortion drug so they can save their babies and begin a wonderful journey into motherhood.
But James has other plans. She doesn’t want women to be able to have the choice to reverse the abortion pill process — because that would be tantamount to admitting that abortions kill babies and harm women.
As they informed LifeNews, CompassCare along with Heartbeat International and 10 other Christian pro-life pregnancy centers preemptively filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James in New York State Supreme Court in Rochester, New York.
The national pro-life public interest law firm, Thomas More Society, based in Chicago, is representing the pregnancy centers in Heartbeat, …CompassCare, et al v James.
The suit alleges that the NY Attorney General is intentionally and maliciously using her office to restrict the Constitutional and Civil Rights of pro-lifers. Attorneys from TMS seek to block James’ “imminent, ruinous legal action.” Prosecution by James violates pro-life Christian groups’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights U.S. Constitutional rights giving pro-lifers redress under USC 42, Section 1983, the Third KKK Act of 1871.
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Previously, abortion activist politician Letitia James, without any evidence of complaint or injury to women by pro-life pregnancy centers, notified a dozen pro-life organizations of her intent to sue within five business days, alleging the use of “misleading statements or omissions in the advertising of the Abortion Pill Reversal (“APR”) protocol.”
Rev. Jim Harden, CEO of CompassCare, told LifeNews he’s not surprised that James and other pro-abortion politicians are trying to shut down their pro-life efforts.
“On April 22, abortion activist politician Letitia James, without any evidence of complaint or injury to women, notified pregnancy centers of her intent to sue within five business days alleging the use of “misleading statements or omissions in the advertising of the Abortion Pill Reversal (“APR”) protocol.” This is a copy-cat move by James after allegations were filed against pro-life groups by California Attorney General Rob Bonta,” he said.
“If politicians like Letitia James get their way and hamstring pro-life groups and doctors, New York will be engaging in forced abortion. These blue-state AGs like James and Bonta reveal that, for politicians, abortion has never been about choice,” Harden added. “Nearly 90% of all women served by CompassCare who wish to reverse the effects of chemical abortion save their pregnancies through the use of natural progesterone therapy, a course of treatment found to be safe and effective for that purpose in a review of 16 different medical studies.”
He continued: “This is only the most recent move by pro-abortion political extremists in a two-year, multi-layered, blue-state, pattern of attack against pro-life pregnancy centers—similar to Marxist-style allegations of misinformation leveled by Jane’s Revenge terrorist group against pro-lifers. The attacks on pregnancy centers began on June 7, 2022, with the firebombing of CompassCare’s medical office in Buffalo, injuring two firefighters. They have simply exchanged bombs for lawyers.”
“CompassCare and Heartbeat International along with 10 other pro-life groups are filing a preemptive suit against NY Attorney General Letitia James. The suit notes that Letitia James’ action will result in shutting down Christian pro-life action and speech, violating our 1st Amendment rights of free exercise of religion and speech. Beyond that, if James wins it could spell financial ruin for pro-life pregnancy centers run on a shoestring,” he continued.
Harden said pregnancy centers help women while the abortion industry injures them.
“If James and Bonta were really interested in protecting women from malpractice and fraud, they are suing the wrong people. We’ve never sent a single woman to the emergency room or morgue. Compare that little fact to the billion-dollar abortion empire’s record. Beyond that, according to the federal Comstock Act, nearly all of the 630,000 annual chemical abortions in the U.S. are illegal,” he said.
Harden said it’s ironic that James is going after centers that save black babies from abortion.
“In her hometown of Brooklyn, for every 100 black babies born, 99 are aborted. Generally, the black community represents 14% of the population but bears the burden of nearly 40% of all abortions,” he added.
Harden told LifeNews that if James really cared about women she would go after the abortion industry.
“Recent studies show that 1 in 17 women who start the chemical abortion process wind up in the ER with sepsis, hemorrhaging, or un-diagnosed ectopic pregnancy. Meanwhile, 60% of those ER visits are miscoded as a miscarriage. Chemical abortion is fraudulently called ‘safer than Tylenol.’ Additionally, the shipment of these drugs across U.S. borders and state lines is a violation of Federal law carrying a $250,000 fine and jail time per instance,” he said.
