Second Circuit Upholds Injunction Protecting Speech About "Abortion Pill Reversal"

Court allows New York pregnancy centers to promote abortion reversal

A federal appeals court sided with a group of pregnancy centers that sued New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) over her attempts to regulate claims about abortion pill reversal, allowing the groups to continue to promote the treatment. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower federal district court’s preliminary injunction, which found the pregnancy centers’ statements and promotion of abort…

Second Circuit Upholds Injunction Protecting Speech About "Abortion Pill Reversal"

Such speech by the National Institute of Family & Life Advocates in this case, the court concluded, was noncommercial speech that was subject to broad First Amendment protection, rather than less protected "commercial speech."