Last week, a Florida Circuit Court judge rejected Planned Parenthood’s motion to dismiss a false advertising lawsuit from 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 a lawsuit stating Planned Parenthood’s safety claims regarding the abortion drug Mifepristone are “manifestly false” and violate Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit notes that “about one in 25 women” who ingest abortion drugs “will end up in the emergency room” and that “36 Mifepristone-related deaths have occurred” since the drug’s FDA approval in 2000.
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The lawsuit seeks $350 million in damages, a $10,000 statutory penalty for the estimated 35,000 Florida abortions where Planned Parenthood’s deception was involved. AG Uthmeier also seeks the court to declare Planned Parenthood’s “repeated misleading advertisements” as a “pattern of racketeering activity” that may warrant other penalties, such as divesting the company of its Florida real estate locations, barring it from committing abortions, or dissolving the organization in Florida altogether.
The lawsuit reads, “Planned Parenthood and its Florida operations mislead women about the critical and undeniable risks of a chemical abortion by deceptively claiming these powerful drugs are less risky than everyday pain medication. This is no accident. Planned Parenthood profits from this deception.”
On May 27, First Circuit Court Judge J. Scott Duncan for Santa Rosa County denied Planned Parenthood’s dismissal motion allowing the case to move forward. According to the ruling, Planned Parenthood argued that its safety claims are akin to “non-actionable puffery.” However, Judge Duncan concluded that Planned Parenthood’s abortion pill safety claims cannot be dismissed as such “at this stage of the litigation.”
“The defendants did not simply claim the abortion-inducing medications were safe; rather, according to the Complaint, they claimed they were safer than other medications,” wrote Judge Duncan. “In making a comparison, the Defendants went beyond vague promotional language. Now whether these statements are actionable or non-actionable may depend upon the context in which they were made. However, that is a question the Court currently cannot answer. The Court is bound to the four corners of the Complaint. Accordingly, the Court declines to dismiss the Complaint in its entirety.”
Currently, Planned Parenthood’s website says Mifepristone “is safe and effective,” and “safer than common medications like Tylenol and Viagra.”
“It is vile that Planned Parenthood cares more about lining their pockets than providing women with factual information about the health risks of chemical abortion drugs,” Uthmeier stated. “When it comes to health and safety in Florida, we won’t tolerate blatant lies using fabricated medical ‘facts’ that have no scientific basis.”
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Comparing chemical abortion drugs that cruelly kill innocent unborn children and harms women to Tylenol is misleading. The abortion industry has an agenda of death that disregards the life of unborn children and the health of their mothers. There is a deliberate strategy to misinform people about chemical abortion, and the science clearly proves that it is unsafe and devastatingly harmful to women. Planned Parenthood needs to be held accountable for these reprehensibly deceptive practices and the FDA needs to remove these dangerous chemical abortion drugs from the market.”
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