The group behind Florida’s abortion-rights initiative, Amendment 4, is suing a state health care agency, alleging that an agency media campaign against “fear mongers” is actually an illegal, taxpayer-funded political operation to torpedo the initiative.

Floridians Protecting Freedom Inc. filed the lawsuit Sept. 12 in the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County against the state Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). The plaintiff, which is represented by the ACLU of Florida and Southern Legal Counsel, is seeking to block the AHCA’s statements about Amendment 4.

“The state’s materials misrepresent what the amendment would do, make allegations that are explicitly refuted by the language of the amendment itself, and mislead through both inaccurate statements and through omission of countervailing information,” the lawsuit states. “Such actions violate the political power that has been constitutionally reserved to the people, and therefore should be enjoined.”