Supreme Court hands crisis pregnancy center win in fight against New Jersey’s donor list subpoena Story by Jack Birle and Kaelan Deese,
Washington Examiner via MSNApril 29, 2026
The Supreme Court handed a crisis pregnancy center a significant win on Wednesday in the anti-abortion center's bid to quash New Jersey's subpoena demanding it hand over its donor lists, after the center successfully argued it was unlawfully targeted.
The justices found that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers had established a "present injury" to its First Amendment rights, allowing it to continue its case in federal court, where the pregnancy center has alleged that the subpoena unlawfully chills its First Amendment free speech rights.
The case, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, stems from a dispute over whether First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, a pregnancy center that offers resources for expectant and new mothers, can challenge the constitutionality of the subpoena from then-New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin in federal court. Platkin argued that the subpoena was part of an investigation into whether First Choice misled donors into thinking it is an abortion clinic, something pregnancy centers do not typically do. ...
