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A San Diego-based Catholic nonprofit filed a lawsuit this week against California Attorney General Rob Bonta that seeks to protect access to a treatment that’s said to reverse medication-induced abortions if taken quickly enough.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Diego, is a response to a state lawsuit Bonta filed last year alleging that a national anti-abortion group and five crisis pregnancy centers in Northern California were using “false and misleading statements” to advertise and promote what they call “abortion pill reversal,” or APR.
The federal lawsuit seeks an injunction against Bonta’s efforts to sue the crisis pregnancy centers, alleging that the attorney general is violating their First Amendment rights.
“Bonta has no business butting into the intimate medical decision of an expectant mother, in consultation with the medical professional of her choice, to carry her pregnancy to term and save her unborn baby from the disastrous effects of mifepristone while there is still time to undo the effects of that powerful chemical,” the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Catholic nonprofit Culture of Life Family Services, which operates COLFS Medical Clinic at three locations in San Diego County, by attorneys from the Thomas...
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