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.
SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH WHETHER STATES CAN TARGET DONOR LISTS
The subpoena Platkin served First Choice in 2023 demanded, among other records, the names of most donors to the pregnancy center. The Democrat demanded the identities as part of an investigation into claims the group misled donors into thinking they were giving to an abortion clinic.
During oral arguments in December 2025, the justices appeared largely skeptical of New Jersey’s claims that the subpoena is not an unlawful chilling of First Choice’s First Amendment rights, especially regarding the state’s claims that the subpoena cannot be viewed as enough of a threat to the pregnancy center’s free speech rights to have a case in federal court.
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