Pro-abortion groups are raising nearly eight times as much money as pro-abortion groups for abortion measures that will be on the ballot in about a dozen states in November.
Abortion reform supporters raised nearly $108 million, while pro-life opponents raised nearly $14 million, according to campaign finance data compiled by the watchdog group Open Secrets and reported by The Associated Press.
Abortion-related bills are on the ballot in 10 states. In nine of these states, the measure would enshrine the right to abortion to some extent in their state constitutions, and some states would allow abortion during pregnancy. In New York state, the ballot measure would outlaw discrimination related to “pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive health care and autonomy,” among other things.
Campaigns for or against the measures typically raise money to reach voters through television, radio, digital ads, mailers, yard signs, door knocks, etc., and the better funded they are, the better off they are.
“Data collected by media tracking firm AdImpact shows that significant funding benefits have translated into far more ad buys in Missouri and Montana so far,” the report said. It's dark.
Abortion organizations have raised more than $5 million in donations in Missouri, including $1 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, data show. As a result, abortion groups spent more than $11 million on ads supporting the ballot measure, while pro-life groups opposing it spent less than $50,000, the report continues.
In Montana, pro-abortion advocates raised $11.8 million to $105,000 more than anti-abortion opponents, according to the data.
“Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, and South Dakota are not seeing as much advertising. In Nebraska, anti-abortion opponents raised slightly less money, but they were able to buy more ads. “Nevada and South Dakota do not have to report their contribution totals until later this month,” the report said.
Abortion groups have spent millions supporting Florida's abortion reform bill, reportedly raising more than $60 million compared to $9 million from pro-life groups. .
The report said abortion giant Planned Parenthood Federation of America and some of its regional affiliates donated more than $1 million in support of the amendment. The largest donor is Martha Zlatin Laufer, who often contributes to left-wing causes. She has donated more than $9 million to the state of Florida to support pro-abortion advocates, the report continues.
Left-wing dark finance groups also support the abortion amendment, similar to the previous abortion measure. Arabella Advisors' Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based underground finance group, as well as the Fairness Project, the Advocacy Action Fund, and the George Soros-linked Open Society Action Fund. He has donated more than $1 million to several states.
Nationally, pro-abortion donors increased from 94,000 to 2,600 donors, the report said.
When the Supreme Court handed down its decision, Dobbs The decision on June 24, 2022 was overturned. Roe vs. Wadeinvented the federal right to abortion for 50 years. of Dobbs This decision left the issue of abortion to individual states and their elected representatives, changing the nature of the struggle between the pro-life movement and the abortion industry.
Abortion advocacy groups and activists are quietly turning to voting policies in hopes of strengthening the growing abortion complex in the transition from federal to state power.
Voting measures are particularly effective as attack vectors because they are essentially irreversible. That means it changes the state constitution, overrides laws passed by the state Legislature, and can only be overturned by another ballot measure. Supporters of these measures are typically well-funded left-wing organizations and affiliates such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, out-of-state black-finance groups and billionaires with eugenicist tendencies, and often pro-life organizations. It exceeds spending by two or three times.
Every pro-abortion ballot measure since fall 2019 egg Successful. During the 2022 special election, Kansas rejected a ballot measure that would have excluded abortion rights from the state constitution. During the 2022 midterm elections, voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont codified abortion into their constitutions. At the same time, voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have given rights to babies born alive after botched abortions. Kentucky voters also rejected an amendment similar to Kansas'. Last November, Ohioans also voted to codify the right to abortion into the state constitution with Issue 1.
While Republicans have worked to protect unborn children on a state-by-state basis, Democrats have expanded abortion nationwide through shield laws, telemedicine, and tens of millions of dollars to establish states as abortion havens. Last year, the number and rate of abortions measured in the United States was at its highest. In the US formal health care system, an estimated 1,026,690 fetuses died as a result of abortion, for an abortion rate of 15.7 per 1,000 women of reproductive age. According to A report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. This figure represents a 10 percent increase in abortions compared to 2020.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
