Thomas More Society Responds to NY Attorney General’s Lawsuit to Silence Pregnancy Help Organizations
Today, May 6, 2024, Thomas More Society attorneys representing Heartbeat International, CompassCare and a collective of pregnancy help organizations, released the following statement after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prevent these life-affirming groups from offering and/or promoting Abortion Pill Reversal (APR).
Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation, said:
“Today, New York Attorney General Letitia James has decided to proceed full steam ahead with her witch-hunt against New York’s pregnancy help organizations. Delivering on her threat of lawfare against our life-affirming clients, Ms. James has filed a baseless lawsuit in Manhattan—where none of our clients are located—to unconstitutionally silence their pro-life message. In doing so, Ms. James is seeking to keep in the dark women who desire to urgently try to continue their pregnancies.
"On April 30, we preemptively sued Ms. James on behalf of our clients—Heartbeat International, CompassCare and a group of New York pro-life pregnancy help organizations—after they were blitzed with “Notice of Intention to Sue” threat letters from Ms. James’ office. 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 New York. Ms. James should “follow the science” and face the facts: Abortion Pill Reversal is a safe and effective option for pregnant mothers who have taken the first abortion pill, immediately regret it, and seek to save their unborn babies’ lives. The administration of supplemental progesterone, which is the heart of the Abortion Pill Reversal protocol, has been used for decades to help pregnant women at serious risk for miscarriage. And thousands of pregnant women, at risk of miscarriage because of taking the abortion pill, were able to have healthy babies because of the timely application of supplemental progesterone through the Reversal protocol.
“We will strenuously defend our clients’ right to offer facts, as well as hope, to women in their most difficult circumstances. In the meantime, we invite Ms. James to turn her ire towards organizations like Planned Parenthood, which continue to disseminate inaccurate, misleading, and even false information, about the risks and dangers of the chemical abortion process to women who pay for their services—and have thus far not been targeted with threats or prosecution by Ms. James’ office.”
Read the Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Consolidate filed in Rochester, NY, and AG Letitia James' competing lawsuit filed in Manhattan, here.
For related background on Thomas More Society’s representation of Heartbeat International, CompassCare and the collective of pregnancy help centers, visit here.
Photo of Letitia James by Alec Perkins.
