California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com

California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants a court to punish pro-life organizations for telling women they may have another choice after starting a chemical abortion.

His case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions targets their communications about abortion pill reversal and seeks millions in penalties along with restrictions on what they can say. But to understand what California is asking the court to suppress, look beyond the legal briefs and listen to the women who actually sought that help.

Three of them took the witness stand. They told the court what happened when they took mifepristone, regretted their decisions, and desperately searched for a way to keep their babies and continue their pregnancies. Today, each is raising the child she feared she had lost.

And in California’s own closing brief, the state described what these women received from Heartbeat and RealOptions with a remarkable word: “hope.”

“That Defendants offered hope to these individuals underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” Those words appear on page 45 of the California attorney general’s post-trial brief in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International and RealOptions.

The “individuals” are women who took the first drug in a chemical abortion, regretted that decision, and urgently searched for another option. The “hope” was that they might still be able to sustain their babies and continue their pregnancies. The “misconduct” was telling them about abortion pill reversal.