Imagine fighting a case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States—only to admit during oral arguments that the entire premise was based on a lie.

This embarrassing scenario became a reality for New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin this month, in his case, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc. v. Platkin. During questioning, counsel for New Jersey acknowledged that the state had not received any complaints regarding First Choice Women’s Resource Center prior to issuing the subpoena, despite alleging that First Choice misled customers. When pressed, counsel clarified that any complaints received involved other pregnancy centers, not First Choice, which is the sole subject of the subpoena in this case.

Despite this admission, Platkin was not ashamed to force the good women staffing the center to go all the way to the Supreme Court—devoting precious time, money and resources—to defend themselves from what was ultimately a transparent case of lawfare against political opponents. He hoped that this lawfare would successfully convince Americans that centers like First Choices are “fake” and “misleading” clients.

In my decades of experience working as an OBGYN and medical director of four separate pregnancy centers in North Carolina, nothing could be further from the truth. The nation’s nearly 3,000 pregnancy centers are not only credible and professional, but they also provide vital services that American women and children desperately rely on.

Anyone asserting otherwise is either uninformed or anti-woman.

In a nation that........

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