SCOTUS Hears Arguments About Pregnancy Center Donor Information

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Aimee Huber, executive director of First Choice Women’s Resource Centers in New Jersey


 By Kim Roberts - Posted at MinistryWatch:

Justices raised concerns about chilling effect subpoenas would have on donors.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving pregnancy resource centers in New Jersey that have been fighting a legal battle to prevent the subpoena of its donor records.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a subpoena in November 2023 demanding the names and contact information of donors to First Choice Women’s Pregnancy Centers. He claimed he wanted to make sure no donors had been misled into donating to First Choice.

First Choice Executive Director Aimee Huber saw it as an attack on First Choice that could lead to further harassment of other pregnancy centers—so she pushed back.

“I knew that if we didn’t stand up, that other pregnancy centers would be harassed and targeted, and I couldn’t let that happen,” Huber said in an article produced by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the public interest law firm representing First Choice.

First Choice challenged the attorney general’s subpoena in federal court based on the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, claiming the subpoena chilled the right to freedom of association and freedom of speech.



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