Description: First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is a Christian, pro-life, medical nonprofit that serves pregnant mothers, mothers of newborns, and fathers. New Jersey’s attorney general selectively targeted the nonprofit based on its religious speech and pro-life views with a wide-ranging, unfounded, and burdensome subpoena that requires the organization to expend its limited resources to produce extensive documentation or face judicial sanctions. The attorney general does not refer to any substantive evidence of wrongdoing to justify his onerous demands.
NJ AG continues crusade to shut down pregnancy center, despite unanimous SCOTUS ruling protecting its First Amendment rights
Friday, May 1, 2026
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Of Counsel Erin Hawley regarding New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport’s attempt to defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Wednesday in the case First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport:
“New Jersey’s attorney general is doubling down on her predecessor’s hostile crusade to keep First Choice from vindicating its First Amendment rights in federal court. Just one day after the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that her office’s donor demands burden the ministry’s First Amendment rights, Attorney General Davenport requested that the state court fast-track its enforcement proceedings to preempt the federal court’s review. That move disregards the Supreme Court’s ruling and underscores the stark reality of this case: For more than two years, New Jersey state officials have targeted First Choice simply because they dislike its pro-life views. But this week, the Supreme Court sent a clear message: First Choice is entitled to its day in federal court.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.
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