ATTORNEY GENERAL BONTA ISSUES STATEMENT FOLLOWING CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING OF "ABORTION PILL REVERSAL"

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 17 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:

OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement after closing arguments concluded in the California Department of Justice's (DOJ) lawsuit against Heartbeat International (HBI), a national anti-abortion group, and RealOptions Obria (RealOptions), a chain of five crisis pregnancy centers in Northern California. Filed in September 2023 in Alameda County Superior Court, the lawsuit alleges that HBI and RealOptions use false and misleading claims to advertise "abortion pill reversal" (APR), an unproven experimental procedure, in violation of California's False Advertising Law and Unfair Competition Law. DOJ's presentation...