Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Emily’s List said their joint investment was “to respond aggressively to the unprecedented attacks on sexual and reproductive rights and abortion rights across the country and raise awareness among readers to the legislators who are to blame”.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by the end of June on a case involving a Republican-backed Mississippi abortion law that has the potential to change or overturn the landmark ruling of 1973 Roe v. Wade who legalized abortion nationwide.
During the oral arguments in this case, the conservative judges signaled their desire to drastically reduce the right to abortion in the United States.
In anticipation of this ruling, Republican-led state legislatures have enacted increasingly strict abortion bans. In 2022, five states have enacted laws banning abortion earlier in pregnancy than Roe vs.
The three groups said the money will be spent primarily in swing states and states that could be integral to their efforts to maintain abortion access nationwide, including Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and California.
The money will go towards, among other things, advertising, reader outreach and in-person actions in state capitals and Washington, DC Organizations will support candidates at the state and national level.
“We have reached a moment of crisis for abortion access because conservative politicians have engaged in a coordinated effort to control our bodies and our future,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, in a statement. .
A 2021 survey of “voters Ambivalent Enrollees” in Most Balanced States, commissioned by Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List and American Bridge 21st Century, found that the issue of abortion rights had readers backing Democrats over Republicans by a wide margin.
A December Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 48% of American adults think abortion should be legal in most or all cases, 38% say it should be illegal in all or most cases, and 14 % are uncertain.