ACLU pledges $25M to promote abortion ahead of midterms

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced that it will spend $25 million during the midterm elections, in part to "educate voters" on a number of races and ballot measures — including those that impact abortion.

Key Takeaways:

• The ACLU has pledged $25.5 million for its "voter education electoral program" ahead of the midterm elections.

• Abortion is one of the issues on which it aims to 'educate' voters.

• The organization and its affiliates will focus specifically on fighting a measure that is seeking undo the 'right' to abortion in the Missouri constitution. It will also promote a referendum in Virginia to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right in that state.

The Details:

In a July 6 press release, the organization announced its "largest ever" investment of $25.5 million for its "voter education electoral program." That program aims to 'educate' on the issues of "abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting, fair courts, and democracy protections."

According to its release, the ACLU and its affiliated foundations will focus in part on nine priority states, including Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Part of the funding will focus specifically on Missouri, where voters will be faced with a referendum seeking to remove the so-called "right" to abortion from the state's constitution. Efforts will also be focused on Virginia, where voters will decide on an amendment to make abortion a constitutional "right." In every instance, the ACLU will seek to expand and boost abortion.

Zoom In:

The ACLU noted that its funding efforts to sway voters have worked in the past, pointing to a campaign it ran to influence voters regarding a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, which led to the overturn of the state's 150-year-old restriction on abortion.

The organization also boasts that in Ohio in 2023, the ACLU, ACLU Foundation, and ACLU of Ohio helped defeat a 2023 ballot measure that would have made it more difficult for voters to amend the state's constitution; that vote came just 12 weeks before voters enshrined a "right" to abortion in the state's constitution.

The organization says it played a "leading role" in securing abortion in the state.

More recently, the organization pointed to the fact that the chemical abortion pill is now available in Missouri for the first time since 2018, due in part to litigation spearheaded by the ACLU.

The Bottom Line:

The ACLU is entirely beholden to abortion, having worked for years in promoting and boosting the intentional killing of preborn children under the guise of "rights." Its commitment to pledge millions to push abortion even further is a sign that pro-lifers must fight more than ever for innocent preborn lives.