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作者：约翰·克鲁泽尔
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- 摘要
- 案件源于新泽西州总检察长的传票
- 调查涉及这些中心是否欺骗潜在客户
- 这些机构试图引导女性放弃堕胎
华盛顿，4月29日（路透社）——美国最高法院周三在新泽西州一起案件中支持以基督教信仰为基础的反堕胎“危机妊娠中心”的运营方，该机构正试图阻挠州政府对其是否存在欺诈行为的调查。
大法官们以一致裁决，恢复了“第一选择女性资源中心”提起的联邦诉讼，该中心挑战新泽西州总检察长2023年发出的、要求获取该组织捐赠者和医生信息的传票。下级法院此前驳回了这起诉讼。
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在新泽西州拥有五家分支机构的第一选择中心，就下级法院的裁决提起上诉。下级法院认为，鉴于此事正在州法院进行诉讼，第一选择中心针对当时民主党籍总检察长马修·普拉特金发出的传票提起的联邦诉讼为时过早。
第一选择中心的宗旨是引导女性放弃堕胎。普拉特金发出这份传票，是州政府调查的一部分，旨在查明第一选择中心是否欺骗捐赠者和潜在客户，使其错误相信该机构提供堕胎服务和其他生殖医疗服务，违反了州消费者保护法及其他法规。
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该传票要求获取第一选择中心的内部记录，包括其医生和捐赠者的姓名。第一选择中心表示，这一要求导致部分捐赠者重新考虑对该组织的捐款。
最高法院并未审理这些机构是否存在欺诈行为的问题。相反，本案聚焦于第一选择中心是否具备在联邦法院对传票提起宪法诉讼的法律依据，或是必须继续在州法院审理此事。
唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府在本案中支持第一选择中心。
2023年，在其提交记录的期限临近前几天，第一选择中心在新泽西州联邦法院起诉普拉特金，辩称该传票损害了其受第一修正案保护的言论自由和结社自由权利。
目前最高法院拥有6名保守派大法官和3名自由派大法官，该法院于2022年推翻了1973年“罗伊诉韦德案”的裁决，该裁决曾使堕胎在美国全国范围内合法化。
该裁决出台后，普拉特金的办公室发布了消费者警报，提醒公众危机妊娠中心不提供堕胎服务，并指出此类机构“可能还会提供关于堕胎的虚假或误导性信息”。
危机妊娠中心为孕妇提供服务，目的是劝阻她们堕胎。此类机构通常不会明确宣传其反堕胎立场，堕胎权利倡导者称其具有欺骗性。
第一选择中心由联盟辩护律师事务所代理，这是一家保守派法律团体，曾代表反堕胎原告提起其他诉讼。
在第一选择中心提起联邦诉讼后，普拉特金寻求在州法院强制执行该传票。2024年，一名州法官暂时驳回了第一选择中心撤销传票的请求，命令双方协商缩小传票的范围。该法官表示，宪法相关问题可在后续诉讼中审理。
在联邦案件中，美国地区法官迈克尔·希普驳回了第一选择中心的诉讼请求，认定其联邦主张为时过早，因为该中心可以继续在州法院提出宪法主张，且不会面临立即被裁定藐视法庭的风险。
位于费城的美国第三巡回上诉法院在2024年以2比1的投票结果维持了希普的裁决，促使第一选择中心向最高法院提起上诉。最高法院于去年12月审理了本案的口头辩论。
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US Supreme Court backs anti-abortion pregnancy centers in New Jersey case
2026-04-29 14:09 UTC / Reuters
By John Kruzel
April 29, 2026 2:09 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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- Summary
- Case stems from New Jersey attorney general’s subpoena
- Probe involves whether centers deceive potential clients
- These facilities try to steer women away from abortions
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Wednesday with the operator of Christian faith-based anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey that is trying to impede a state investigation into whether the facilities engage in deceptive practices.
The justices, in a unanimous decision, revived a federal lawsuit brought by First Choice Women’s Resource Centers challenging a 2023 subpoena from the state attorney general seeking information on the organization’s donors and doctors. A lower court had thrown out the lawsuit.
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First Choice, which has five locations in New Jersey, had appealed the lower court’s determination that its federal lawsuit challenging then-Democratic Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s subpoena was premature in light of ongoing state court litigation over the matter.
The First Choice facilities seek to steer women away from having abortions. Platkin issued the subpoena as part of a state investigation into whether First Choice deceived donors and potential clients into falsely believing the facilities offered abortions and other reproductive healthcare services in violation of a state consumer-protection law and other statutes.
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The subpoena sought First Choice’s internal records, including the names of its doctors and donors. First Choice has said this caused some donors to reconsider giving to the group.
The question of whether the facilities acted deceptively was not before the Supreme Court. Rather, the case explored if First Choice has the legal basis to bring a constitutional challenge to the subpoena in federal court, or if it must continue litigating the matter in state court.
President Donald Trump’s administration backed First Choice in the case.
Days before its records were due to be handed over in 2023, First Choice sued Platkin in New Jersey federal court, arguing that the subpoena chilled its First Amendment rights to free speech and free association.
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in 2022 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.
Following that decision, Platkin’s office issued a consumer alert that warned the public that crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortions and noted that such facilities “may also provide false or misleading information about abortion.”
Crisis pregnancy centers provide services to pregnant women with the goal of dissuading them from having an abortion. Such centers often do not clearly advertise their anti-abortion stance, and abortion rights advocates have called them deceptive.
First Choice was represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that has brought other cases on behalf of anti-abortion plaintiffs.
After First Choice’s federal lawsuit, Platkin sought to enforce the subpoena in state court. A state judge in 2024 declined First Choice’s request to quash the subpoena for the time being, ordering the parties to negotiate a narrower subpoena. The judge said that the constitutional issues could be litigated going forward.
In the federal case, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp dismissed First Choice’s complaint, finding that its federal claims were premature because it could continue to make its constitutional claims in the state court and did not face any immediate threat of being held in contempt.
The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision in 2024 upheld Shipp’s ruling, prompting First Choice to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court heard arguments in the case in December.
Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham
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