Supreme Court sides with pro-life pregnancy centers targeted by New Jersey - LifeSite
“WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously backed a group of faith-based pregnancy centers suing New Jersey for trying to force them to turn over massive amounts of donor information and confidential internal documents.
The justices ruled that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers could challenge in federal court New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s subpoena demanding 28 categories of documents, including records with donors’ names, phone numbers, addresses, and places of employment.
According to First Choice’s lawsuit, Platkin’s subpoena demanded “All Documents physically or electronically provided to Clients and/or Donors, Including intake forms, questionnaires, and Pamphlets,” as well as copies of “every solicitation and advertisement” posted by the pregnancy center network, among many other kinds of documentation.
The sweeping subpoena “did not explain why the Attorney General sought First Choice’s donor records,” the Supreme Court noted, and did not cite any evidence of wrongdoing. It also “warned twice that failure to comply may render the group liable for contempt of court and other penalties.”
New Jersey AG’s office attorney Sundeep Iyer even admitted during questioning that the office had received “no complaints” about First Choice.
Platkin, a strongly pro-abortion Democrat, had also issued a “consumer alert” after the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022 denouncing pregnancy centers. His office collaborated on the notice with Planned Parenthood, the country’s top abortion vendor, emails later revealed. The alert urged women to distrust pro-life centers, claiming that they may provide “misleading information,” and encouraged them to visit Planned Parenthood’s website.
First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, an “abortion clinic alternative,” offers free telehealth nurse consultations, pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, and consultations about abortion information, as well as baby products and other help for pregnant women. It does not offer abortion or birth control or refer for abortions.
The Supreme Court said that Platkin’s subpoena caused an “ongoing injury” to the pregnancy centers’ First Amendment rights and sent the case back to the lower courts for “further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
“An official demand for private donor information is enough to discourage reasonable individuals from associating with a group. It is enough to discourage groups from expressing dissident views,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the ruling.
“From its allegations and declarations, and given our many and longstanding precedents in the area and reasonable inferences about third party behavior, First Choice has established that the Attorney General’s demand for private donor information injures the group’s First Amendment associational rights,” he added.” …….
They claim to be “pro-Choice”–but only if the choice is Death.
This is a Spiritual Battle that plays out in the political.
Moloch and Jezebel want the blood of infants just like Epstein and Pfauci. Do we think God is neutral? He is not.
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Father, thank You for this Victory for Your children, Hallelujah!
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