The Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential First Amendment rulings in years Wednesday, and it did so without a single dissent.

Beneath the legal architecture of the Court’s unanimous decision in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport lies a story the pro-life movement must understand clearly: a state attorney general, wielding the full machinery of government, set out to destroy a pregnancy center not because anyone had complained about it, not because it had broken any law, but because it offered women an alternative to abortion.

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers has served pregnant women in New Jersey since 1985. For four decades, it has provided counseling, material support and genuine care to pregnant women without the natural supports to help them carry their pregnancy to term and beyond. First Choice exists to tell them: you are not alone, your child has value and we will help you.

That is its mission. That is why the attorney general came for it.

In 2022, Attorney General Matthew Platkin created a “Reproductive Rights Strike Force” dedicated, in effect, to protecting the abortion industry’s monopoly on the narrative around pregnancy. Not a single member of the public had filed a complaint about First Choice. No matter. The subpoena came anyway, demanding the names, addresses, phone numbers and employers of virtually every donor the........

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