BREAKING: Dark Money Floods Arizona to Get Unlimited Abortion “Rights” on the 2024 Ballot
Mega-donors and “dark money” groups are going all in to murder the unborn in Arizona from now ‘til Doomsday
It’s David vs. Goliath in Arizona’s fight to abort the next generation, and Goliath’s not even on the ballot yet.
Restoration News has traced close to $14 million from Democratic mega-donors and “dark money” groups to the committee behind Arizona’s proposed constitutional amendment inserting abortion rights into the state constitution. That’s 26 times more money for unlimited abortion access than is funding the campaign to protect Arizona’s current 15-week ban, which reports less than $524,000 in contributions so far.
Arizona’s ban is already more liberal than the roughly 12-week bans in place in Canada and most of Europe. It also comes at a time when abortion rates are falling both globally and in the United States despite the work of ideologues to loosen laws even further.
Professional abortionists are finishing signature-gathering to place a constitutional amendment on Arizona’s Nov. 2024 ballot asserting that “every individual has a fundamental right to abortion” and prohibits Arizona from adopting any law that “denies, restricts or interferes with that right before . . . [or] after fetal viability.”
It’s been endorsed by Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the socialist group Indivisible. But the measure’s also meant to boost Democratic voter turnout in the critical swing state where Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 4–7 points, as of writing—which is why outside groups are pouring so much cash into the campaign.
“The deep-pocketed far left has Arizona’s unborn babies and moms in their crosshairs,” SBA Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser told Restoration News. “They are spending millions of dollars of out-of-state dark money to make Arizona’s abortion laws mimic the extreme laws of California and even China. If successful, their radical constitutional amendment will wipe away Arizona’s limits such as those preventing painful late-term abortions and ensuring parental involvement to protect young girls from the horrors of abortion.
“It goes far beyond Roe and would put Arizona abortion law far outside the mainstream, both in the U.S. and around the world. Everyone must do their part to inform Arizona voters about this deceptive campaign underway, who is funding it, and why it must be rejected,” Dannenfelser added.
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The Spigot Never Runs Dry
Nearly all the big donors to Arizona for Abortion Access are from California, D.C., or other blue strongholds.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund (total contribution: $1.3 million) is part of the multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network run by Arabella Advisors in Washington, D.C., the biggest political funding machine in the world—meaning the original donors’ identities can never be traced. But we know one of the network’s top donors is Swiss billionaire Hans Wyss, who is not an American citizen.
Arizonans Fed up with Failing Healthcare, the Fairness Project, and Healthcare Rising (collective contributions: $8.5 million) are fronts for the SEIU, a massive government workers union and one of the biggest election spenders backing Democrats in 2024 with a $200 million campaign to win back working class voters for Biden.
Reproductive Freedom for All—formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America—has given the committee $111,000.
The Green Advocacy Project (cont.: $300,000) is a “dark money” spin-off of NextGen, a top climate change funder bankrolled by California hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, which pushes the radical Green New Deal.
Between them, Planned Parenthood and its affiliates—the nation’s biggest abortion provider—have poured $417,000 into the committee. The ACLU has pumped another $500,000 into it. And J.B. Pritzker, Illinois’ quadruple-XL Democrat Governor, funds Think Big America (cont.: $250,000) to export Chicago’s unlimited abortion laws to the rest of the country.
We’ve also traced $100,000 from Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and his wife, retired actress Kate Capshaw; $50,000 from Greg Serrurier, who heads the Palo Alto climate change equity management fund Redwood Grove Capital; $50,000 from Sheli Rosenberg, an investor and ex-director for the ultrafeminist National Partnership for Women & Families; and $100,000 from the retired Arizona banker David Reese and his wife Louise, whose foundation funds left-wing get-out-the-vote groups.
Expect more “dark money” to flow in as we edge nearer to November.