Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal from New Jersey faith-based pregnancy center
Source: AP
Updated 9:55 AM EDT, June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear from a faith-based pregnancy center in New Jersey challenging a state investigation alleging it misled people into thinking its services included referrals for abortion.
The justices agreed to consider an appeal from First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which wants to block a 2023 subpoena from New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin seeking information about donors, advertisements and medical personnel. It has not yet been served.
Attorneys for First Choice Women’s Resource Centers describe the organization as a “faith-based, pro-life pregnancy center.” The organization generally seek to women facing an unwanted pregnancy away from choosing an abortion. The group challenged the subpoena in federal court, but a judge found that the case wasn’t yet far enough along to weigh in. An appeals court agreed.
First Choice Women’s Resource Centers appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the push for donor information had chilled its First Amendment rights. “State attorneys general on both sides of the political aisle have been accused of misusing this authority to issue demands against their ideological and political opponents,” its lawyers wrote. “Even if these accusations turn out to be false, it is important that a federal forum exists for suits challenging those investigative demands.”.
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ananda
(32,573 posts)I hate rightwing crazies.
sinkingfeeling
(55,883 posts)attempt to save democracy or the Constitution.
slightlv
(6,094 posts)Been actively working towards this day for decades, it's the ONLY thing that matters... they've even had to make nice with those heretical Catholics to do it! /snark
azureblue
(2,487 posts)note how a faith-based, pro-life pregnancy center will dodge when a woman asks them to provide financial support for the child..
wolfie001
(5,687 posts)Scrolito and Clarence the Clown will
Grins
(8,587 posts)Republicans have always balked at revealing who funds their shittery. The fraud that is "Citizens United,'" immediately comes to mind. The Reich have argued - and won - in courts that funding elections/politics is free speech, and then turn around and deny their funders that free speech.
Writing A BIG FAT CHECK is not just speech - it is screaming speech! Begging to be heard; PROUD to be heard. Not releasing donor information is what has "chilled First Amendment rights."
* I have always wondered: "What do those donors fear?"
drmeow
(5,687 posts)individual in this country develop untreatable impotence/vaginismus, sterility (if of childbearing age), and incontinence immediately for the rest of their lives (or until they become pro-women's health care).