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When a draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade circulated this month, activists got to work rallying their bases. NARAL Pro Choice America, which along with allies had already promised to spend $150 million to influence the upcoming midterm elections, sent out fundraising emails asking for emergency donations. Students for Life Action, which takes credit for helping pass 18 different state laws limiting abortion aside from Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban that is now in front of the Supreme Court, saw more money come in and announced a transition to a 50-state plan. Abortion: Anti-abortion groups could win a 50-year fight. They aren’t stopping there. But the leaked opinion could be a boost for the abortion rights side, experts say.“Big events that tend to scare one side or the other tend to be really good for fundraising and so you can expect a decision overturning Roe to be a massive boost to groups on the abortion rights side of the spectrum,” said Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.“Having a big scary focal point seems to be a better fundraiser than having a big positive focal point,” he said. Roe v. Wade: Why was Roe v. Wade never codified in Congress? Democrats ‘kind of dropped it’In the past two decades, abortion rights political action committees have outraised anti-abortion PACs by a two-to-one margin, according to an analysis of fundraising data from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics. From 1990 to 2022, abortion rights committees like Planned Parenthood raised $56.8 million, while anti-abortion groups like Susan B. Anthony’s List raised $28.2 million. Since the 2018 fundraising cycle, during which Mississippi passed its 15-week abortion ban, abortion rights committees raised $23.4 million, compared to $9.5 million for anti-abortion groups. Those numbers are conservative because they do not include fundraising by Emily’s List, a left-leaning group that supports candidates who broadly support women’s issues including abortion rights. Emily’s List is one of the most prolific fundraising committees not affiliated with a party in the country.“The pro-choice money is dominated by Planned Parenthood and its affiliates, and then by Emily’s List,” said Pete Quist, deputy research director at Open Secrets. “Planned Parenthood, of course, works on other issues as well. This includes other areas of family planning and reproductive health, such as research on certain cancers, and that broader work may help explain some of its large fundraising.”At the state level, abortion rights groups including Emily’s List spent $10.8 million in state elections from 2019 to 2022, and anti-abortion groups spent $384,000, according to Open Secrets. Despite that spending, in the past two years, state legislatures in Texas, Idaho, Arizona, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Florida have passed laws restricting abortion.All data is taken from the source: http://usatoday.comArticle Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/17/abortion-donations-2022-midterms-democrats/9629541002/#abortion #newscast #bbcworldnewstoday #newsworldbbc #usanewstoday #newstodayinusa #