{"id":2316662,"date":"2024-07-31T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-ag-sued-for-unconstitutional-attack-on-abortion-pill-reversal\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:10:15","slug":"ca-ag-sued-for-unconstitutional-attack-on-abortion-pill-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-ag-sued-for-unconstitutional-attack-on-abortion-pill-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"CA AG Sued For \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 Attack On Abortion Pill Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fca-ag-sued-for-unconstitutional-attack-on-abortion-pill-reversal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2316662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crisis-pregnancy-centers-that-democrats-smeared-as-fake-clinics-saved-800000-lives-since-2016\/\" title=\"Crisis Pregnancy Centers That Democrats Smeared As \u2018Fake Clinics\u2019 Saved 800,000 Lives Since 2016\">pro-life pregnancy clinic<\/a>, Culture of Life Family Services (COLFS), has filed a\u200c lawsuit against California \u200bAttorney General Rob Bonta,\u2062 accusing him of waging a politically motivated campaign against \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-refuses-to-guarantee-that-taxpayer-money-in-stimulus-bill-wont-go-toward-abortions\/\" title=\"Psaki Refuses To Guarantee That Taxpayer Money In Stimulus Bill Won\u2019t Go Toward Abortions\">pro-life organizations<\/a> that provide abortion \u2063pill reversal (APR) treatments. The clinic claims\u2064 that Bonta \u200cis infringing upon their First Amendment rights by targeting their legally protected activities aimed at helping women who wish to\u200b reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone. They argue that Bonta\u2019s actions also violate the \u2062Fourteenth\u2063 Amendment\u2062 rights of pregnant women by suggesting that they cannot choose to continue their\u200c pregnancies after taking the pill.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c lawsuit emphasizes that APR, often offered for free by pregnancy centers, gives women a \u2062second chance at \u200dkeeping their babies\u200c and that multiple \u200bstudies support its safety and efficacy. Despite this evidence, Bonta has \u2062dismissed the science on APR, labeling it as misleading and unproven. Additionally,\u2064 after the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 decision on abortion, Bonta issued alerts and launched initiatives to\u2062 scrutinize pregnancy centers that offer alternatives to abortion. The lawsuit contends that Bonta&#8217;s characterization of these centers as fraudulent misrepresentations\u200b is unfounded, suggesting instead that his position seeks to suppress \u2062divergent viewpoints in favor of\u2064 a \u2062pro-abortion narrative. The COLFS calls attention to the\u2062 irony of attacks on\u200c APR amidst concerns over the safety of chemical abortions, which have been \u200clinked to significant\u2063 health complications.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A pro-life pregnancy clinic sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday for carrying out a &ldquo;politically motivated campaign&rdquo; against pro-life organizations that offer abortion pill reversal (APR) treatments to women who change their mind about ending their unborn babies&rsquo; lives.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads-ssl.webflow.com\/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46\/66a93d0518202cb2a1627f7a_Dkt.%201_Complaint_COLFS%20v.%20Bonta.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a> filed in the U.S. District Court in San Diego, California, Culture of Life Family Services alleges Bonta is actively violating its free exercise of religion and free speech rights under the U.S. and California constitutions by &ldquo;targeting protected speech and activities engaged in for the sole benefit of pregnant women who have ingested &mdash; whether voluntarily or via trick or force&mdash; mifepristone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The AG&rsquo;s quest to demonize APR and anyone who touts it, the lawsuit from the Catholic nonprofit that operates state-licensed COLFS Medical Clinic in San Diego, California continues, also &ldquo;violates the Fourteenth Amendment rights of pregnant women to not be forced to undergo or continue an abortion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>APR, which pregnancy centers often offer free of charge, gives women and their babies a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/01\/abortion-pill-reversal-gave-my-daughter-and-me-a-second-chance-at-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second chance at survival<\/a>. Despite Democrats&rsquo;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/abortion-pill-reversal-controversy-legal-battles-medical-debate-rcna159515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media&rsquo;s<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/05\/02\/youtube-suspends-abortion-pill-reversal-explainers-harmful-dangerous-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/01\/if-google-had-banned-abortion-pill-reversal-info-in-2013-my-beautiful-child-could-be-dead-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tech&rsquo;s<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/blog\/can-the-abortion-pill-be-reversed-after-you-have-taken-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s<\/a> attempts to paint the medication as unsafe, <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/abortion-pill-reversal-a-record-of-safety-and-efficacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30831017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studies<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37969420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have determined<\/a>&nbsp;that increasing intramuscular and high-dose oral&nbsp;progesterone in women who ingest the abortion drug regimen and regret it&nbsp;is &ldquo;safe and effective&rdquo; and resulted in &ldquo;no apparent increased risk of birth defects.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As COLFS notes in the lawsuit, &ldquo;there is no evidence of a single woman harmed by Abortion Pill Reversal.&rdquo; Yet, Bonta has repeatedly disregarded the science on APR &ldquo;in favor of abortion-on-demand or his view of what constitutes &lsquo;credible scientific evidence.&rsquo;&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 2022 <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision, Bonta issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-bonta-issues-consumer-alert-warning-californians-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consumer alert<\/a> accusing his state&rsquo;s pregnancy centers of offering only &ldquo;limited and potentially misleading&rdquo; care simply because they offer women alternatives to ending their babies&rsquo; lives. Bonta&rsquo;s Department of Justice also <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/reprorights#:~:text=Wade.-,Your%20Rights%20to%20Birth%20Control,plans%20cover%20the%20following%20services.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched a government web page<\/a> encouraging Californians who &ldquo;believe their right to reproductive healthcare, including accessing abortion, has been violated&rdquo; to report it to his office.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;lawfare&rdquo; against pro-lifers didn&rsquo;t stop there. By September 2023, Bonta <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-bonta-sues-anti-abortion-group-five-california-crisis-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started an official campaign<\/a> on five of California&rsquo;s pregnancy centers with a lawsuit accusing them of making &ldquo;fraudulent and misleading claims to advertise an unproven and largely experimental procedure called &lsquo;abortion pill reversal.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But the idea that the speech of purely charitable pregnancy help organizations amounts to &lsquo;fraudulent misrepresentation&rsquo; by offering women no-cost services is incongruous. The subtext of Bonta&rsquo;s argument is that pregnancy help organizations may speak, but only if they speak the State&rsquo;s message,&rdquo; the COLF lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/13\/ny-ag-letitia-james-sues-pregnancy-centers-over-life-saving-abortion-pill-reversal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat attorneys general<\/a>-led attacks on no-cost abortion pill reversal are ironic given chemical abortions&rsquo; proven history of causing dangerous and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33939340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sometimes fatal&nbsp;complications<\/a> to women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Mifepristone, which is responsible for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2022\/02\/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half<\/a>&nbsp;of the nation&rsquo;s abortions, is also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/public-health-threat-chemical-abortion-leads-to-significantly-higher-rate-of-er-visits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responsible<\/a>&nbsp;for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/07\/federal-judge-says-fda-wrongfully-approved-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500 percent increase<\/a>&nbsp;in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-misrepresenting-chemical-abortions-as-miscarriages-at-increased-risk-of-multiple-hospitalizations-study-finds\/\" title=\"Women Misrepresenting Chemical Abortions As Miscarriages At Increased Risk Of Multiple Hospitalizations, Study Finds\">abortion-related emergency room visits<\/a> for side effects such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prochoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/phone_triage_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hemorrhage<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/drugs-supplements\/mifepristone-oral-route\/side-effects\/drg-20067123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;fast, weak pulse,&rdquo; &ldquo;shortness of breath,&rdquo; diarrhea, dizziness, headache, vomiting<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/drugs-supplements\/mifepristone-oral-route\/side-effects\/drg-20067123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;pain&rdquo; across the back, arms, neck, and abdomen<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/fact-sheet-risks-and-complications-of-chemical-abortion\/#_ftn19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">myriad other risks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Abortion Pill Reversal gives these women a second chance to choose life, a choice that Bonta and the abortion industry would strip from her,&rdquo; Thomas More Society Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation Peter Breen said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmoresociety.org\/news\/pregnancy-help-organization-sues-california-ag-for-censoring-its-pro-life-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;In his quest to silence pregnancy help ministries, Bonta is violating Culture of Life Family Services&rsquo; right to speak and aid women in exercising their reproductive privacy rights,&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Paul M. Jonna, partner with LiMandri &amp; Jonna LLP and special counsel to the Thomas More Society, called Bonta&rsquo;s actions &ldquo;politically motivated and blatantly unconstitutional.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With all of the crime and corruption in California, it is tragic and beyond comprehension that AG Bonta &ndash; our state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-on-if-illegal-border-crossing-should-still-be-a-crime-if-hell-prosecute-i-dont-know\/\" title=\"Garland On If Illegal Border Crossing Should Still Be A Crime, If He\u2019ll Prosecute: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know\u2019\">top law enforcement officer<\/a>, with a $1.3B budget &ndash; is using his vast resources to target pregnancy centers and strip women of their right to procreative choice, and their right to continue with a pregnancy through the safe and effective Abortion Pill Reversal process,&rdquo; Jonna noted.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-life pregnancy clinic has filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta, claiming he is conducting a &#8220;politically motivated campaign&#8221; against organizations that provide abortion pill reversal (APR) treatments for women who reconsider their decision to terminate their pregnancies. The complaint, submitted to the U.S. District Court in San Diego by Culture of Life Family Services, argues that Bonta is infringing on their rights to free exercise of religion and free speech as protected by both the U.S. and California constitutions. The lawsuit contends that Bonta&#8217;s actions target legitimate speech and activities aimed at assisting pregnant women who have taken mifepristone\u2014whether willingly or under duress.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic nonprofit asserts that Bonta&#8217;s efforts to vilify APR also violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights of pregnant women by coercing them into continuing with an abortion. APR services are often provided at no cost by pregnancy centers, offering women and their unborn children another chance at life. Despite opposition from Democrats, mainstream media, Big Tech companies, and Planned Parenthood labeling the treatment as unsafe, various studies have shown that increasing doses of progesterone for those regretting taking the abortion drug regimen is &#8220;safe and effective,&#8221; with no significant risk of birth defects.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit highlights that there has been no documented harm caused by Abortion Pill Reversal; however, it claims Bonta has consistently ignored scientific evidence in favor of his own views on what constitutes credible science regarding abortion access. Following the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, Bonta issued a consumer alert accusing pregnancy centers in California of providing only &#8220;limited and potentially misleading&#8221; care because they offer alternatives to abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta&#8217;s Department of Justice also created a website encouraging Californians who feel their reproductive healthcare rights have been violated\u2014including access to abortions\u2014to report such incidents to his office. By September 2023, he initiated legal action against five pregnancy centers for allegedly making &#8220;fraudulent and misleading claims&#8221; about APR.<\/p>\n<p>The COLF lawsuit argues that characterizing charitable organizations&#8217; assistance as \u201cfraudulent misrepresentation\u201d simply because they provide free services is illogical; it suggests these organizations can only express themselves if aligned with state-approved messages.<\/p>\n<p>Critics point out the irony in attacks led by Democratic attorneys general on no-cost APR options given the known risks associated with chemical abortions\u2014specifically mifepristone\u2014which account for over half of all abortions in the U.S., along with significant increases in emergency room visits due to severe side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Breen from Thomas More Society stated that Abortion Pill Reversal offers women an opportunity to choose life\u2014a choice he believes AG Bonta seeks to eliminate through his actions against pregnancy help ministries which infringe upon Culture of Life Family Services\u2019 right to assist women exercising their reproductive privacy rights.<\/p>\n<p>Paul M. Jonna from LiMandri &amp; Jonna LLP criticized Bonta\u2019s conduct as politically driven and unconstitutional while lamenting how resources meant for addressing crime are being used instead against pregnancy centers aiming to support women&#8217;s choices regarding safe APR procedures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2316663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4310,20195,13682,36773,5803],"class_list":["post-2316662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion","tag-ag","tag-ca","tag-pill-reversal","tag-unconstitutional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled-design-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}