A new lawsuit alleges that California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s ongoing battle with crisis pregnancy centers, which offer women a scientifically supported option to change chemical pregnancies, violates those centers ‘ constitutional rights.
The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates ( NIFLA ) demanded that the Western Division of California’s Central District Court halt Bonta’s attempt to criminalize advocacy of the lifesaving medication known to reverse chemical abortions in an Oct. 2 complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief because it violates its 136 California members ‘ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to” speak freely, to practice their religion, and to due process under the law.”
” The Constitution protects Defendants ‘ right to speak to the people and people about valid medical procedures provided by qualified medical specialists”, the defendants, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, position.
Soon after the Supreme Court’s 2022 , Dobbs v. Jackson , choice, Bonta issued a , consumer alert , accusing his state’s pregnancy centers of offering just “limited and possibly misleading” maintenance because they gave women seeking alternatives to ending their babies ‘ lives.
Bonta’s Department of Justice also , launched a federal online page , encouraging Californians who “believe their proper to reproductive care, including accessing pregnancy, has been violated” to record it to his business.
By September 2023, Bonta had filed a lawsuit against five California’s pregnancy centers for what he perceived as “fraudulent and false claims to promote an untested and generally experimental procedure called “abortion pill reversal.” His actions were already being challenged in court again by Culture of Life Family Services in July for “targeting protected speech and actions engaged in for the ultimate benefit of expectant women who have ingested mifepristone — whether deliberately or by trick or power.”
As the October problem warns, pregnancy locations in the Golden Gate State are now” content to injunctions, legal fines of up to$ 2, 500 per’ contravention,’ and possible jail time”.
The Attorney General claims to support a woman’s right to choose whether to continue her maternity, but he also wants to deprive a person who changes her head or who was coerced or deceived into taking the first pregnancy substance of accurate information about a safe and effective way to save her pregnancy, according to the lawsuit.
Bonta’s lawfare, the suit warns, has illegally hampered California-based clinics like the NIFLA-affliated SCV Pregnancy Center , from their ability to “advertise and provide services, counseling, and information about progesterone treatment”.
” A free society values information, which is a prerequisite for making informed medical decisions. But California’s attorney general is silencing pregnancy centers and censoring information about life-saving medical options”, ADF Senior Counsel Caleb Dalton said in a statement. Although Planned Parenthood’s attorneys general and his allies may not like it, the truth is that many women regret having abortions and some attempt to stop the effects of chemical abortion drugs before starting the second abortion. Every step of the way, women deserve to be informed of all their options.
Democrats like Bonta,  , corporate media,  , Big , Tech, and , Planned Parenthood , have tried to paint the abortion pill reversal medication as unsafe. Several , studies, however,  , concluded , that the intramuscular and high-dose oral , progesterone prescribed to women to combat the drug combo responsible for , more than half , of the nation’s abortions is” safe and effective” and resulted in” no apparent increased risk of birth defects” when taken within the recommended three-day window.
On the contrary, the mifepristone and misoprostol handed to women to induce chemical abortion , are known to cause side effects including hemorrhage,  , “fast, weak pulse”,” shortness of breath”, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, vomiting,  , “pain” across the back, arms, neck, and abdomen, and sometimes fatal , complications. Even the U. S. Food and Drug Administration admits nearly , 1 in 25 , women who ingest it will end up in the emergency room or hospitalized.
Literally, abortion pill reverse reverse protects thousands of unborn babies and their mothers from the fetus-wrecking effects of chemical abortion. Particularly beneficial for women who are forced or forced to ingest abortion pills against their will.
Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion attacks on pregnancy centers have only increased. When physical intimidation campaigns led by violent perpetrators such as a man armed with a machete did n’t discourage pregnancy centers from offering women and unborn babies support and care, the Planned Parenthood-allied Democrats running , New Jersey,  , Washington, Colorado, California, and other states have turned to lawfare.
Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, attempted to pull the same stunt on Bonta and other pro-life activists in her state by suing nearly a dozen pregnancy centers for denying women access to abortion pills. However, a recent ruling in favor of the pregnancy centers reaffirmed their support for the reversal of abortion pill reversals as protected speech.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.