Latest update: 16-05-2025, 20:43
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case from First Choice Women’s Resource Center in New Jersey. The center wants to stop New Jersey’s attorney general, Matt Platkin, from using a legal order that asks for its private files—like the names of its doctors and donors. First Choice says this order hurts its right to free speech and that it should be able to go straight to a federal court instead of starting in a state court.
Crisis pregnancy centers are places that try to talk women out of getting abortions. In 2023, First Choice went to a federal court to block the order. A state court in Essex County said the order could stand but made it cover less information. Then, a federal judge said First Choice must first challenge the order in state court. In December 2024, a higher federal court agreed. That’s why First Choice is now asking the Supreme Court to step in.
A conservative legal group called Alliance Defending Freedom is helping First Choice. This group often works on cases against abortion pills. The Supreme Court will hear this case when its next term starts in October.
At the same time, New York’s attorney general sued eleven other crisis pregnancy centers in 2024, saying they offered unproven “abortion pill reversal” treatments. In August 2024, a court let those centers keep talking about these services.
