A Florida Circuit Court judge has rejected Planned Parenthood’s attempt to dismiss a false advertising lawsuit brought by the Florida Attorney General over the abortion giant’s claims that chemical abortion drugs are “safer than Tylenol.”
In November 2025, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed the lawsuit, arguing that Planned Parenthood’s safety claims about the abortion drug Mifepristone are “manifestly false” and breach Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit states that “about one in 25 women” who take abortion drugs “will end up in the emergency room” and that “36 Mifepristone-related deaths have occurred” since the drug received FDA approval in 2000.
LifeNews reports that the lawsuit is seeking $350 million in damages, including a $10,000 statutory penalty for an estimated 35,000 Florida abortions allegedly involving Planned Parenthood’s deception. AG Uthmeier is also asking the court to classify Planned Parenthood’s “repeated misleading advertisements” as a “pattern of racketeering activity”, potentially opening the door to further penalties, including divestment of its Florida real estate holdings, barring it from carrying out abortions, or dissolving the organisation in Florida altogether.