12/03/2025
“If you don’t help after a baby arrives, you’re not pro-life,” people say. But that’s what pregnancy centers do. Last year they gave away $450M+ in aid, from clothes to diapers to job training.
And for this they’ve been relentlessly targeted. Today we pushed back, as the Supreme Court heard First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin.
It’s something of a David-and-Goliath case: a faith-based nonprofit versus the top law enforcement official in New Jersey.
Attorney General Matthew Platkin has made no secret of his animosity toward pregnancy centers like those operated by First Choice. Without receiving any complaints, Platkin ignited a witch hunt against the ministry, issuing an invasive subpoena for up to 10+ years of records—including the names, addresses, and employers of nearly half of its donors.
In response, Alliance Defending Freedom helped First Choice file a federal lawsuit. But AG Platkin tried to dodge accountability, arguing that First Choice couldn’t take him to federal court until the case had first been litigated in New Jersey courts.
Today we argued that federal courts exist to protect federal rights—like a donor’s right to associate and support causes privately. This is important for ALL Americans seeking protection from lawfare by state officials. That’s why even the ACLU supports our position here, as it did in a past SCOTUS case on donor privacy.
But this case is especially important for pro-life pregnancy centers. Since Dobbs, they’ve been harassed and targeted by officials in blue states across America, who seem determined to cut off women’s access to any option except abortion.
Pregnancy centers are targeted in part because they’re a living rebuttal to the lie often told about the pro-life movement. These centers DO care about both mother and child. They DO offer the support necessary for women & families to choose life—both before and after a baby is born. They ARE fully, passionately pro-life.
The real hypocrisy belongs to those who would ruthlessly limit women to abortion while calling themselves “pro-choice.”