Judge blocks NY AG Letitia James from trying to silence pregnancy centers that promote abortion pill reversal

A national justice this week issued New York Attorney General Letitia James a preliminary injunction that bars her from taking enactment against gestation clinics that beforehand termination pill reversal connected the grounds it would restrict protected escaped speech. 

The ruling came amid a suit by the Thomas More Society connected behalf of 2 pro-life ministries, Summit Life Outreach Center and the Evergreen Association. The suit argues that James has targeted gestation centers with threats of prosecution for sharing accusation astir abortion pill reversal, which she has said is unproven.

"These tiny nonprofits, which beryllium to compassionately service women and connection them alternatives to abortion, merit to person their code elevated—not chilled," Peter Breen, Thomas More Society's enforcement vice president and caput of litigation, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "This tribunal bid makes wide Ms. James cannot censor pro-life code purely due to the fact that she dislikes it."

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New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall. James has sued respective pro-life gestation centers implicit their promotion of termination pill reversal.  (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation)

Fox News Digital has reached retired to James' office. 

In his order, Judge John Sinatra Jr., a Trump appointee, wrote that James is barred from preventing the clinics from promoting termination pill reversal connected their websites and societal media platforms. 

Medicinal termination involves taking mifepristone and pursuing it with attraction of misoprostol days later, but pregnancy clinics person advised that those who alteration their minds and privation to proceed the gestation tin bash truthful by abandoning the 2nd cause and alternatively taking doses of progesterone. 

In May, James filed lawsuits against 11 gestation centers that promoted the termination pill reversal procedure, accusing them of engaging successful fraud, deceptive concern practices and mendacious advertising. She claimed the groups were "spreading unsafe misinformation by advertizing … without immoderate aesculapian and technological proof."

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Mifepristone and Misoprostol pills are pictured Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, successful Skokie, Illinois.  (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Despite not being named successful James' lawsuit, Summit Life Outreach Center and the Evergreen Association said her targeting of different gestation centers had enactment them astatine risk. 

Barbara Bidak, the enforcement manager of Summit Life Outreach Center, said her unit works "tirelessly to supply life-affirming options for women successful need."

"We’re incredibly pleased a federal judge has present made wide that Attorney General Letitia James’ ineligible attacks connected our state’s pro-life ministries unconstitutionally chills our First Amendment close to stock the lifesaving connection of Abortion Pill Reversal—which gives large moms successful the mediate of a chemic termination a 2nd accidental to take life."

Breen said the pro-life ministries person a law close to stock accusation astir termination pill reversal, and that "their connection is redeeming thousands of lives."

The Thomas More Society is representing the 11 clinics successful a abstracted case. Last month, a national justice successful that lawsuit ruled the clinics were protected by the First Amendment. 

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a property conference. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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"Based connected a cautious exertion of the preliminary injunction factors, particularly arsenic they subordinate to Plaintiffs’ First Amendment Free Speech claim, question for a preliminary injunction is granted," the justice wrote. 

Fox News Digital's Peter Aitken contributed to this report.