{"id":318075,"date":"2024-09-12T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=318075"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:41:55","slug":"report-gargantuan-amounts-funds-funneled-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-gargantuan-amounts-funds-funneled-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: ‘Gargantuan amounts’ of funds to pay for abortions ‘funneled’ instead to ‘vague’ political efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Multiple abortion funding groups have alleged that “gargantuan amounts” of abortion funds have been “funneled” to “vague” political efforts, “rather than supporting people who need abortions now,” according to The Nation.<\/p>\n

Abortion funds are used to assist adult women to obtain abortions \u2014 and sometimes to even traffic teens<\/a> who are traveling<\/a> from states that have pro-life protections in place to states that do not.<\/p>\n

So-called ‘out-of-touch legacy orgs’ like the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) are being accused by those who oversee abortion funds of “siphon[ing] support” for women and then “funnel[ing] that money into campaign bank accounts.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Abortion Funds Dissention Brews Among Pro-abortion Groups<\/p><\/div>\n

States Disperse Millions in Abortion Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Grassroots abortion funds had a fleeting moment in the sun. In the year after Dobbs<\/em>, abortion fund budgets increased by 88%,\u00a0allowing 100 funds to collectively disperse $37 million to people seeking abortions<\/a>, according to National Network of Abortion Funds data,” The Fuller Project (FP) recently reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“One of the biggest chunks of cash comes from the\u00a0$198.5 million<\/strong>, at least, in new state government funding allocated to supporting reproductive healthcare, including abortion, in the year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to the National Institute for Reproductive Health [NIRH] (based on funding in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Jersey and Washington), along with $9.4 million in funding from local governments,” wrote<\/a> Forbes.<\/p>\n

“Post-Dobbs<\/em>, at least 15 localities and six new states dedicated nearly $208 million to funding abortion care, clinical reproductive health services and infrastructure, and practical support like patient navigation for those seeking abortions,” NIRH wrote<\/a> in June of 2023.<\/p>\n

“But conservative-led states outspent governments supporting abortion rights, putting at least\u00a0$252.9 million<\/strong> on funding state alternatives to abortion programs since the Dobbs ruling, which directs money to anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centers,'” Forbes added in 2023.<\/p>\n

Post-Dobbs ‘Rage-Giving’ Slows as Philanthropy Focuses on Political Campaigns\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Action News previously<\/a> documented that, just two years after the Supreme Court\u2019s Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>\u00a0that overturned the decades-old\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em> court decision, abortion funds are allegedly drying up.<\/p>\n

“People running abortion funds knew the flood of Dobbs<\/em> ‘rage-giving’ would dry up quickly. And it has. But at the same time, tens of millions of dollars have flowed<\/a> into the reproductive rights space,” wrote<\/a> the Fuller Project.<\/p>\n

“The small abortion funds that dot America \u2014 and that provide crucial money to women in desperate straits \u2014 are often overlooked by large philanthropic organizations that funnel the bulk of their grants to larger institutions such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Abortion Federation… More than half of the grants \u2014 $336 million \u2014 went to the big two: Planned Parenthood\u2019s national headquarters… and the National Abortion Federation,” FP wrote<\/a> separately.<\/p>\n

“Donations to local funds have dwindled<\/a> and support from Planned Parenthood, NAF, and institutional organizations have retreated. Local funds have been put in a position to disproportionately hold the weight of abortion access while being abandoned based on their more radical and staunch values than their national counterparts,” an open letter<\/a> signed by multiple abortion fund organizations read in part.<\/p>\n

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Abortion funds are crucial to helping people get the care they deserve. Yet as our expert Candace Gibson explains, donations to funds have slowed while the need for care has increased post-Dobbs.<\/p>\n

Supporting abortion funds protects access for all.<\/p>\n

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