Planned Parenthood Sent State Attorneys General a 14-Point Plan After Roe Fell. Records Show Democrat AGs Followed It.

A memo obtained by the Daily Signal shows Planned Parenthood sent Democrat state attorneys general a 14-point strategy document about a month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The memo pushed AGs to go after crisis pregnancy centers, the nonprofits that offer pregnancy support and counsel women away from abortion.

According to the documents, Brittany Jenkins, policy director of the Progressive State Leaders Committee, forwarded the memo to attorneys general and staff on July 25, 2022. Jenkins told recipients that Rachel Sussman, Planned Parenthood's vice president of state policy, would brief them the next day to discuss "continued actions AGs can take in response to the Dobbs decision."

The memo itself, dated July 12, 2022, accused crisis pregnancy centers of spreading "misinformation" and called on attorneys general to "provide information to the public about CPCs and take steps to curb their misleading and deceptive practices," citing California's consumer alert as a model. It also urged AGs to push the Federal Trade Commission to target what it called misinformation about medication abortion.

What actually happened next

The timeline the Daily Signal lays out is specific. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued his own consumer alert about crisis pregnancy centers less than a month after the briefing, saying "pregnant people" deserved accurate information.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a similar consumer alert in December 2022. He went further, subpoenaing a crisis pregnancy center called First Choice for the names, phone numbers, addresses, and employers of every individual donor. That move ran headlong into a legal problem: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April 2021, in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, that donors to nonprofits have a First Amendment right to give anonymously without fear of government exposure.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the same official named in that 2021 Supreme Court case, was cited in Planned Parenthood's own memo as an example other AGs should follow. Bonta's office later sued several California crisis pregnancy centers directly. In October 2023, Bonta led 15 fellow Democrat attorneys general in a joint open letter opposing the centers, writing that they had "watched with increasing concern" as the centers proliferated, now outnumbering abortion clinics roughly three to one in their states.

The Justice Department report

The Daily Signal also points to an 882-page Justice Department report released in April 2026 that it says detailed coordination between the Biden administration and abortion-rights groups, including Planned Parenthood, on law enforcement matters. That report was produced under the current administration, and its full findings and methodology aren't detailed in what's available here, so its conclusions should be treated as one agency's account rather than an independently verified record.

What's proven and what isn't

The documented facts are these: Planned Parenthood sent a strategy memo to Democrat attorneys general, a briefing followed, and several of those attorneys general took actions that lined up with specific memo items within months. That sequence and overlap deserve scrutiny.

What isn't established is whether these AGs acted because of the memo versus reaching similar conclusions independently, given that many Democrat officials already viewed crisis pregnancy centers skeptically before Dobbs. Coordination between advocacy groups and elected officials who share their views isn't inherently illegal or even unusual. Industry groups, unions, and ideological organizations across the spectrum regularly brief sympathetic attorneys general on legislative and enforcement priorities.

New Jersey's subpoena for anonymous donor information ran directly counter to a unanimous Supreme Court precedent on associational privacy, a point the Daily Signal notes but doesn't say was ever formally struck down or litigated to conclusion in that specific case. Whether Platkin's subpoena was withdrawn, narrowed, or challenged in court isn't detailed in the available record.

Crisis pregnancy centers, for their part, have long said they provide free ultrasounds, diapers, counseling, and material support to women who choose to carry pregnancies to term, and that they disclose they don't perform or refer abortions. Critics, including the AGs quoted here, argue some centers' advertising blurs that distinction. Neither claim is fully adjudicated in what's documented.

No criminal charges or court findings of unlawful coordination have been reported here. What remains unresolved is whether any state's actions against specific crisis pregnancy centers, particularly New Jersey's donor subpoena, will face further legal challenge, and whether the Justice Department's April 2026 report leads to any formal investigation of the coordination it describes.