In a 9-0 decision delivered today by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court handed pro-life warriors at First Choice Women’s Resource Centers a massive victory against the radical left’s latest attempt to silence and intimidate faith-based pregnancy centers.
The Court ruled that First Choice has standing to challenge New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport’s (succeeding the notorious Matt Platkin) outrageous subpoena demanding the names, addresses, phone numbers, and employment details of nearly all their donors, even though the subpoena hasn’t been enforced yet in state court.
This is a DEVASTATING blow to Democrat lawfare tactics designed to dox conservative donors and scare them away from supporting pro-life causes!
As TGP reported back on December 3, 2025 during oral arguments, Justice Clarence Thomas absolutely TORCHED the New Jersey AG’s lawyer, forcing him to admit under oath that the state had ZERO public complaints about First Choice before launching their donor-snooping fishing expedition.
Thomas called out the whole charade as a “burdensome way to find out whether someone has a confusing website.” especially since First Choice has been crystal clear since 1985 that they are a religious nonprofit that does NOT provide or refer for abortions. They counsel women, support mothers, and honor life from conception.
But the radical AG’s office didn’t care. They created a phony “Reproductive Rights Strike Force,” blasted out consumer alerts smearing pro-life groups as “misleading” women and “preventing access to reproductive health care,” then dropped this nuclear subpoena demanding 28 categories of documents, including donor info going back to January 1, 2021, through every method except ONE single webpage the AG decided was “safe.”
First Choice fought back in federal court, arguing the demand violated their First Amendment rights to free association and speech. Anonymous donors told the court they would have been far less likely to donate if they knew their private information could be handed over to a hostile Democrat AG with a well-documented record of targeting pro-life organizations.
Lower courts, including a divided Third Circuit, tried to kill the case, claiming no “injury in fact” until a state judge actually forced production. The Supreme Court just LAUGHED at that nonsense.
Justice Gorsuch’s opinion for the unanimous Court was crystal clear and devastating to the left’s agenda:
“An injury in fact arises when a defendant burdens a plaintiff’s constitutional rights, and government demands for a charity’s private donor information have just that effect. Such demands inevitably discourage association with groups engaged in protected First Amendment advocacy and encourage groups to cease or modify protected advocacy the government disfavors. All this occurs not just when a demand is enforced but when it is made and for as long as it remains outstanding.”
This ruling is a MASSIVE rebuke to the weaponization of government power against Christians and pro-lifers.
Attorneys representing the First Choice Women’s Resource Centers celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision in comments to LifeNews.
“In this resounding victory, the Supreme Court held to its long-standing precedent of recognizing that the Constitution protects First Choice and its donors from demands by a hostile state official to disclose donor identities and contact information,” said ADF Of Counsel Erin Hawley, who argued before the Supreme Court in December.
“New Jersey’s attorney general targeted First Choice—a ministry that provides parenting classes, free ultrasounds, baby clothes, and more to its community—simply because of its pro-life views. That is blatantly unconstitutional. Should the Attorney General continue these efforts on remand, we look forward to presenting First Choice’s case in federal court.”
“For more than two years, Attorney General Platkin targeted First Choice with aggressive demands for sensitive documents, including our donors’ identities,” said First Choice Executive Director Aimee Huber. “He has gone to great lengths to frustrate the important work we do—work that has made a tangible, life-saving difference for tens of thousands of New Jersey women and their children. As the Supreme Court recognized, the government can’t evade federal court review when it harasses those who support pro-life ministries just because it disagrees with their message and their mission.”
“An official demand for private donor information is enough to discourage reasonable individuals from associating with a group,” the court wrote in its opinion in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin. “From its allegations and declarations, and given our many and longstanding precedents in the area and reasonable inferences about third party behavior, First Choice has established that the Attorney General’s demand for private donor information injures the group’s First Amendment associational rights.”
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that pro-abortion Democrats can’t harass pro-life pregnancy centers in an attempt to shut them down. pic.twitter.com/vzY9L1Z7gQ
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