These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans - 2019-06-13

These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans June 13, 2019, Alex Kotch, Sludge

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Conservative lawmakers in a number of states recently passed some of the most restrictive anti-abortion legislation in history. In the first five months of 2019, legislatures in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio passed bans on abortions after six weeks, a point at which many women don't know they're pregnant. Missouri approved an eight-week abortion ban, Arkansas and Utah passed 18-week bans, and Alabama enacted the harshest law so far this year, a near-total ban on abortions. Governors of these states signed the laws, but none are in effect, either because of legal challenges or future enactment dates.

Reports show that these extreme efforts to ban abortion were inspired by the confirmation of conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who opposes abortion. Despite his claim that he considers the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade an "important precedent," the nation's biggest anti-abortion groups think that Kavanaugh's replacement of former Justice Anthony Kennedy may be what they need to overturn the decision and outlaw abortion once and for all.

A web of state and national groups spent millions of dollars on organizing and lobbying in the states to pass this year's abortion bans. But where did the money come from to make this all possible?

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