Pro-abortion advocates frequently claim that crisis pregnancy centers are dishonest because they give women facts about pregnancy and try to dissuade them from choosing abortion.

Such was the reasoning behind the Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act, an Illinois law signed last month that would save women from “manipulation or misinformation from politically motivated, non-medical actors,” according to Governor J.B. Pritzker. But the act is no more than a thinly veiled attempt to crack down on abortion alternatives through any means necessary, and an Illinois judge is not playing along.

For example, on August 3, U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston put a temporary block on the law, saying that it was “painfully and blatantly a violation of the First Amendment.”

“Justice Scalia once said that he wished all federal judges were given a stamp that read ‘stupid but constitutional,’” Johnston wrote in an order explaining his injunction. “SB 1909 is both stupid and very likely unconstitutional.”

In other words, the law’s stated intent—“to protect the individuals to access the full range of reproductive health care and make fully informed decisions including the right to use or refuse reproductive health care,” per Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul—is not its real purpose at all. The law would be abused to burden crisis pregnancy centers with heavy fines for presenting women with alternatives to abortion, which could easily be construed as “deceptive tactics” by pro-abortion advocates.

Pro-abortion advocates in politics and the media have long waged a rhetorical and cultural war on crisis pregnancy centers, while turning a blind eye to literal attacks that threaten these havens for vulnerable women.

Jean Marie Davis, a survivor of sex trafficking, recently wrote that a pregnancy center saved her from a life of abuse. After she became pregnant, she ran away from her pimp to a domestic violence shelter and was connected with a local pregnancy center, “where a woman named Phyllis changed everything,” she writes.

“She calmed me with a single kind touch and the words, ‘I know a man named Jesus who can help you,’” Davis says. “The warmth of her hands filled me with an encouragement and hope that I’d never known before. In that moment, despite my hardened heart, I abandoned my former life forever.”

The pregnancy center didn’t just provide emotional and spiritual support, but material help as well: “The pregnancy center provided me with free resources and support to take care of my son. I was also able to realize and pursue dreams I had never imagined, such as earning a college degree. I worked with families at the pregnancy center and secured a job at a local hospital.”

Despite the attacks against them, crisis pregnancy centers are literally live-saving, and not just for unborn babies. When many women end up getting abortion against their will, it’s important for them to know about their alternatives. With efforts like these, the people pushing these laws reveal they aren’t really pro-choice at all, but pro-abortion.