A pro-life pregnancy center in New Jersey is fighting back with a lawsuit after the attorney general, Democrat Matthew Platkin, opened a civil investigation against it for allegedly violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
Platkin targeted First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a pregnancy center network that aids women and families facing unplanned pregnancies by providing ultrasounds and resources, by issuing a subpoena and investigating the organization. The attorney general has demanded First Choice provide 10 years of documentation to prove it hasn’t violated any laws.
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In First Choice’s lawsuit against the attorney general, filed with attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, it states, “AG Platkin has never cited any complaint or other substantive evidence of wrongdoing to justify his demands but has launched an exploratory probe into the lawful activities, constitutionally protected speech, religious observance, constitutionally protected associations, and nonpublic internal communications and records of a non-profit organization that holds a view with which he disagrees as a matter of public policy.“
In a statement, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Lincoln Wilson explained the importance of this lawsuit.
“It’s unlawful for New Jersey’s attorney general to use the authority of his office to harm those with whom he disagrees,” Wilson said. “Attorney General Platkin has aligned himself with Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion mission and even enlisted its help to target pro-life pregnancy centers like our client First Choice.”
Platkin has made no attempt to hide his anti-religious bigotry and pro-choice stances in the public sphere. In 2022, he issued a consumer alert telling his constituents he would ensure they had access to abortion providers. In the press release, the office smeared pregnancy centers, echoing the Division of Consumer Affairs saying that “crisis pregnancy centers ... may not even provide any health care at all.”
Pro-life pregnancy centers are an integral part of helping mothers and creating a culture of life in a way that laws alone cannot. Yet hostility against them has increased since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Government animus toward pro-life pregnancy centers, especially faith-based ones, is neither constitutional nor just. Pro-life pregnancy centers have a First Amendment right to exist and thrive in the public for constituents, namely mothers and fathers, facing what is often a time of crisis and need. Government attacks, under the guise of a faux investigation, waste precious time and resources pregnancy centers can’t spare.
Instead of championing only abortion as a means of birth control or as a “reproductive right,” blue states such as New Jersey should support organizations that are trying to offer informed alternatives to abortion and support parents in their time of need — not attempt to shut them down. The child, the parents, and the state would benefit from pro-life pregnancy centers’ availability to consumers. It’s unfortunate to see New Jersey’s government is not just pushing abortion on women but smearing pro-life pregnancy centers at the same time.
Nicole Russell ( @russell_nm ) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. She is a mother of four and an opinion columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.
As New Jersey investigates pro-life pregnancy center, it fights back
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21.12.2023
A pro-life pregnancy center in New Jersey is fighting back with a lawsuit after the attorney general, Democrat Matthew Platkin, opened a civil investigation against it for allegedly violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
Platkin targeted First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a pregnancy center network that aids women and families facing unplanned pregnancies by providing ultrasounds and resources, by issuing a subpoena and investigating the organization. The attorney general has demanded First Choice provide 10 years of documentation to prove it hasn’t violated any laws.
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In First Choice’s lawsuit against the attorney general, filed with attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, it states, “AG Platkin has never cited any complaint or other........
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