Planned Parenthood just found out James Uthmeier doesn't quit.
Now Florida's Attorney General is turning a sealed family court case – one where the baby already left the country – into the vehicle that forces fetal personhood before the Florida Supreme Court.
Democrats are scrambling after James Uthmeier made one move that could end all abortions in Florida.
The Baby Was Already Gone and He Kept Fighting Anyway
The case started in a Broward County family court last December.
Two French men hired a Florida woman to carry their child.
She agreed willingly.
No coercion. No dispute.
The day after the baby was born, Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an emergency motion to intervene in sealed proceedings he had no legal role in.
Nobody knows how he learned about a confidential family court case.
In his sealed brief, Uthmeier cited Bible verses and argued that surrogacy violates the Thirteenth Amendment – the one that abolished slavery.
"If you are buying and selling a human being, what is that? That's slavery," he said.
The family court judge assigned to the case was Marlon Weiss – appointed by DeSantis in 2025, then elevated by DeSantis to the Fourth District Court of Appeals just last month.
Before any ruling came, the fathers took the baby home to France – adopting the child with the birth mother's full blessing.
A state appeals court hearing is scheduled for January.
His stated goal is to get the case before the Florida Supreme Court – where he will demand the justices issue a ruling on fetal personhood itself.
"It is going to bring the conversation of fetal personhood and life front and center," Uthmeier said on the Lila Rose Show. "Is this a human being? Which I believe truthfully, factually, the answer is unequivocally yes."
Planned Parenthood Is Looking at Bankruptcy
While the surrogacy case inches toward the state Supreme Court, Uthmeier opened a second front.
In November 2025, he filed a 37-page racketeering lawsuit against Planned Parenthood – seeking $354 million in damages – for claiming the abortion pill is "safer than Tylenol."
He's using Florida's RICO statute.
"If we ultimately do win and reach a verdict, they could be liable for billions, which could bankrupt that company," Uthmeier said.
His office asked the court to consider shutting down all Planned Parenthood operations in Florida if violations are proven.
Earlier this year, Uthmeier also got the appeals court to strike down Florida's judicial waiver law – the mechanism that allowed minors to get a judge's approval for an abortion when parental consent wasn't available.
A 17-year-old girl was using that process when Uthmeier intervened.
He turned her case into a constitutional challenge and won.
Abortion clinics in Florida lost that option entirely because James Uthmeier showed up to a case he wasn't invited to.
DeSantis appointed Uthmeier as attorney general in February 2025 specifically because of his record.
"That was not an easy fight," DeSantis said at the swearing-in ceremony, referring to Uthmeier's role in defeating Florida's 2024 abortion amendment. "No one thought that it could be successful, and yet we would not have succeeded in that fight if it wasn't for James's leadership."
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Uthmeier called defeating that amendment "the most important fight we'd ever been in."
Voters passed it 57 percent to 43 percent – but Florida requires 60 percent to amend the constitution.
The pro-abortion side got a majority and still lost.
Why the Florida Supreme Court Is the Whole Ballgame
This is the part the mainstream media doesn't want you to understand.
Uthmeier isn't filing cases to win cases.
He's filing cases to build a record that forces the Florida Supreme Court to answer one question: is an embryo a person under the Florida Constitution?
If the answer is yes, abortion doesn't just become illegal in Florida – the mechanism that makes it illegal becomes the state constitution itself.
No future legislature reverses that.
No future governor undoes it.
No ballot amendment fixes it, because the 60 percent threshold that saved Florida in 2024 works both ways.
The Florida Supreme Court already tipped its hand.
In April 2024, a majority of justices signaled they could find fetal personhood rights inside Florida's existing constitutional provisions – even while allowing the abortion referendum to go to voters.
He told Lila Rose he intends to see an end to abortion in Florida in his lifetime.
"I certainly pray so," he said. "I do believe we have the truth on our side and the truth will prevail."
A man who kept fighting a case after the baby left the country tends to mean what he says.
Sources:
- James Uthmeier, Florida Office of the Attorney General, "Attorney General James Uthmeier Brings Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood for Deceptive Marketing Practices," myfloridalegal.com, November 6, 2025.
- Florida Phoenix, "Uthmeier files $354 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for alleged racketeering, deception," floridaphoenix.com, November 7, 2025.
- Bloomberg Tax, "Fetal Personhood Fight Spurred by Florida Abortion Ballot Ruling," news.bloombergtax.com, April 2, 2024.
- State Court Report, "Dispute over Abortion for Florida Teen Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences," statecourtreport.org.
- Lila Rose, "Florida AG James Uthmeier on Ending Abortion in Florida," Live Action, October 14, 2026.
