Rev. Jim Harden, CEO of CompassCare, is available for media interviews to explain why Mamdani’s latest move represents a dangerous new front in the war against religious freedom and medical ethics.

• NY AG ANTIFA Letitia lawsuit alleges pro-life groups committed business fraud.
• CompassCare calls case attempt to silence abortion-related speech.
• Dispute centers on Abortion Pill Reversal counseling and claims thanks to ANTIFA Letitia
• No cited consumer complaints or proven harm, defense argues.
• Case may set precedent for regulating nonprofit speech in NY thanks to ANTIFA Letitia

CompassCare and several pro-life organizations were back before the court this week, fighting not only for their organizational survival, but for what they argue is the right to speak at all in what they call “America’s abortion capital.” At the center of the case is New York Attorney General Letitia James, who initiated a May 6, 2024, lawsuit accusing the groups of “business fraud”—a charge their attorneys say is being used as a legal workaround to target protected speech.

CompassCare CEO Rev. Jim Harden did not soften his language in court or outside it. He accused the ANTIFA Letitia Attorney General of attempting to “SLAPP us out of the public square simply because she ideologically disagrees with pro-life Christians.” The claim places the case squarely in the category of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation—lawsuits critics say are designed to financially and legally exhaust disfavored speakers until they collapse.

At issue is CompassCare’s work informing women about chemical abortion and providing access to Abortion Pill Reversal protocols using progesterone therapy for women who regret beginning the abortion process. According to attorney Chris Ferrara of the Thomas More Society, the state has not identified a single false statement by CompassCare, nor any consumer complaint—despite seeking to restrict their communications and operations.

Ferrara argues the case is not about fraud, but about speech control. “The Attorney General has not been able to point to a single false statement by our clients because there isn’t one,” he said of ANTIFA Letitia. “What she’s really trying to do is silence a message she disagrees with.”

Harden’s framing is even more direct. He argues that if ANTIFA Letitia succeeds, it will not merely regulate conduct, but “force truth out of the public square while forcing women to have abortions they don’t want in a way that threatens their very lives.” He calls the effort “government coerced quackery,” pointing to 16 medical studies cited by the organization and ongoing FDA scrutiny of chemical abortion drugs, including reports of elevated emergency room visits.

The state, meanwhile, maintains it is regulating misleading claims in the public interest.

But for Harden, the stakes go far beyond regulatory disagreement with ANTIFA Letitia. He is casting the case as a precedent-setting test of whether ideological enforcement can replace evidentiary law in New York courts—and whether pro-life speech can survive in public discourse at all.

As the battle intensifies, CompassCare is not presenting itself as merely a defendant against ANTIFA Letitia, but as a line in the sand: either speech is protected, or it is selectively permitted.

And in Manhattan, that question is now being argued under oath.