Letitia James Sues Pregnancy Centers Over Abortion Reversals

New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued a number of disaster being pregnant facilities Monday for saying they will reverse abortion pills.

James, a Democrat, focused 11 disaster being pregnant facilities in New York, accusing them of “misleading” pregnant ladies about whether or not medication abortion could also be reversed, based on the court docket submitting.

James claimed that the facilities, together with the group Heartbeat International, engaged in “deceptive acts or practices” and “false advertising.”

“Abortions cannot be reversed. Any treatments that claim to do so are made without scientific evidence and could be unsafe,” James said in a press launch Monday. “Heartbeat International and the other crisis pregnancy center defendants are spreading dangerous misinformation by advertising ‘abortion reversals’ without any medical and scientific proof.”

Heartbeat International highlights on its website 17 instances from its Abortion Pill Rescue Network, which connects ladies who’ve taken an abortion tablet with a medical supplier to start the reversal course of.

“Medication abortion is an essential component of reproductive health care and has been an important tool in expanding abortion access in New York, particularly in rural and underserved communities where procedural abortion may be unavailable or more difficult to obtain,” the New York Attorney General’s Office wrote within the court docket submitting, including:

In gentle of the elevated use of medicine abortion during the last 20 years and its rising significance within the reproductive well being panorama, this protected and efficient routine for terminating early pregnancies has turn out to be a major goal for opponents of abortion, who not solely search to discourage pregnant folks from selecting to have a drugs abortion within the first place, but additionally more and more search to discourage pregnant people who’ve begun the method of a drugs abortion from finishing that course of.

The submitting seeks a court docket order requiring the being pregnant facilities to take away any content material that “violate[s] New York Executive Law § 63(12) and General Business Law Article 22-A, §§ 349 and 350” in addition to bar them from “engaging in the fraudulent, deceptive, and illegal acts or practices.”

In 2022, James demanded that Google censor search outcomes exhibiting disaster being pregnant facilities. In February, she sued the U.S. division of JBS, a meatpacking firm, claiming that it lied concerning the results its operations had on local weather change.

James additionally promised to analyze then-President Donald Trump throughout her 2018 marketing campaign for lawyer common, labeling him an “illegitimate president.”

She sued Trump in September 2022, alleging that he overstated the worth of actual property holdings to acquire loans.

Originally printed by the Daily Caller News Foundation