Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and a collective of pregnancy help organizations have filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James to block her from suing them for supposedly misleading and lying about Abortion Pill Reversal (APR).
“This is a political witch-hunt against small nonprofits that have selflessly served New York’s pregnant women and their children for over 50 years,” said Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation. “Letitia James should be heralding these charities, not launching outrageously false claims against them under laws that don’t apply to their noncommercial speech.”
Breen added: “We will fight back as long as it takes against Ms. James’ efforts to jeopardize the Christian and life-affirming missions of Heartbeat International, CompassCare, and all similar pro-life ministries in the State of New York.”
A woman needs two drugs to have a drug-induced abortion. Sometimes, a woman changes her mind after she takes mifepristone, the first pill. Progesterone is used “to ‘outcompete’ the mifepristone at the progesterone receptor sites.” It signals to the body to “sustain the pregnancy.”
APR is a way to help a woman reverse any effects of mifepristone and save her baby. The doctor gives the woman a dose of progesterone to counter the mifepristone.
Also, progesterone is a pregnancy-safe pill, filed under Category B with Tylenol.
On April 22, James sent a “Notice of Intention to Sue” to many pregnancy centers “that offer or share information about the APR protocol.” She claimed the centers lie and mislead women.
The collective, represented by the Thomas More Society, filed a complaint against James on April 30, asking for “declaratory and injunctive relief from the latest threatened legal action by” James against the organizations.
The complaint proved that they had done nothing wrong and didn’t lie to women or mislead them.
“For decades, doctors have been prescribing supplemental progesterone for pregnant women at serious risk for miscarriage—but because this safe and long-established practice may actually reverse abortions, ideologues like Letitia James now want to squelch it,” explained Breen. “Ms. James’ Notices of Intention to Sue are a transparent attempt to harass small pro-life charities into silence, targeting her political opponents because of their beliefs, in flagrant violation of the First Amendment.”
The complaint also points out that James has not done anything to those who claim that chemical abortions are safe, especially from organizations that favor her, such as Planned Parenthood.
Heartbeat International has the APR Network, which has physicians or other medical providers who want to help women who change their minds about abortion.
APR Network’s data implies it has saved over 5,000 babies.
“New York State laws protect abortionists and abortion on demand up until birth, stated Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International. “Now they are targeting those who assist a woman in exercising her right to continue her own pregnancy. It is unconscionable to see the abortion industry and its paid-for politicians go so far as to insist she complete an abortion she no longer wants.”
James and her ilk don’t sound very pro-choice, do they? It’s why I call them pro-abortion.
“If we truly believe that women should have a choice in her pregnancy decision, then she should also have the choice to reconsider her abortion after taking the first chemical abortion pill, said Kathy Jerman, Executive Director of New Hope Family Services & President of NYS Coalition for Life. “The NY Attorney General is falsely accusing our centers of sharing misinformation with our clients about this life-saving protocol. It is simply not true. Abortion Pill Reversal gives women a second chance to choose life.”
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