Letitia James Hit With New Lawsuit

New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with another lawsuit this week by an anti-abortion group relating to abortion pill reversal protocol.

Last week, the National Institute for Family and Life Advocates, Gianna’s House, Inc., and Choose Life of Jamestown, Inc., filed a lawsuit against James, alleging that she is using “the State’s power to regulate business fraud to stop nonprofit pregnancy centers and a network of affiliated centers from providing the information” regarding Abortion Pill Reversal.

An APR procedure involves a woman who has changed their mind about aborting a pregnancy after taking mifepristone, a drug that is used to end a pregnancy. APR involves taking progesterone to offset the effects of mifepristone.

The lawsuit states that a woman identified as Maranda recently welcomed her daughter into the world after an APR. According to the lawsuit, Maranda was taking mifepristone but later changed her mind about her pregnancy and received information from “New Hope Family Services’ website about a method of using FDA-approved progesterone supplements, which physicians may lawfully prescribe under New York law, in an effort to save a developing child by counteracting the hormone-blocking effects of mifepristone.”

“The Attorney General alleges that New Hope and the other pro-life pregnancy centers are spreading ‘false and misleading’ information about progesterone treatment. She seeks an injunction and other penalties to censor their attempts to provide this information,” the lawsuit says. “This action seeks to enjoin the Attorney General from targeting, chilling, and punishing Plaintiffs’ speech about progesterone treatment, and to declare that her actions violate Plaintiffs’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to speak freely, to practice their religion, and to due process under the law.”

Newsweek reached out to James’s office and the National Institute for Family and Life Advocates via email for comment.

Earlier this month, James was hit with a similar lawsuit by a coalition of anti-abortion groups that said she sought to block Christian pregnancy centers from promoting so-called abortion pill reversal protocol.

The Abortion Pill Rescue Network says that studies of APR have shown it has a 64-68 percent success rate of allowing the pregnancy to continue, but the course of action has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Jor-El Godsey, President of Heartbeat International, one of several anti-abortion groups named as plaintiffs in the suit, said in a statement that “New York State laws protect abortionists and abortion on demand up until birth. Now they are targeting those who assist a woman in exercising her right to continue her own pregnancy.”