Letitia James by lev radin / Shutterstock.com (Left), Maria Oswalt / Unsplash
CV NEWS FEED // A federal judge this week granted a preliminary injunction that allows two pro-life pregnancy organizations to continue sharing information about Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) despite New York Attorney General Letitia James’ efforts to restrict their speech.
On September 25, the Thomas More Society, which represents the NY-based pregnancy help organizations, reported that District Court Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.’s September 24 ruling protects Summit Life Outreach Center and The Evergreen Association. The ruling prevents James “from silencing the constitutionally protected speech of these pro-life ministries while their lawsuit moves forward.”
APR is a protocol that gives women an opportunity to attempt to save their unborn child if they change their mind after starting the chemical abortion pill procedure.
CatholicVote reported that the Thomas More Society sued the attorney general in August, contending that she violated the U.S. Constitution by infringing on the organizations’ free speech rights. Thomas More Society is also representing Heartbeat International and 11 other pro-life pregnancy centers in a similar New York state case in which James had filed a lawsuit accusing the organizations of promulgating “false and misleading statements” about the effectiveness of the APR pill.
Afraid of “targeted harassment” from James, Summit Life Outreach Center and The Evergreen Association had “limited or avoided altogether the promotion of APR on their social media platforms and websites,” according to an August 8 report from the Thomas More Society.
Peter Breen, Thomas More Society’s executive vice president and head of litigation, stated that the injunction “marks a critical victory for New York’s pregnancy help organizations and another blow to Letitia James’ unconstitutional witch-hunt against pro-life ministries,” according to the September 25 report.
“This court order makes clear Ms. James cannot censor pro-life speech purely because she dislikes it,” Breen added.
