Report: Group Founded By Illinois’ Democrat Governor Drops $500K In South Dakota To Enshrine Abortion Into Law
A left-wing advocacy group founded by Illinois’ Democrat governor recently dumped half a million dollars into South Dakota to enshrine abortion into the state’s constitution, according to a new report.
On Thursday, the left-wing South Dakota Searchlight revealed that the Chicago-based Think Big America donated $500,000 to Dakotans for Health, a pro-abortion group behind the campaign to pass a baby-killing amendment appearing on South Dakota’s 2024 ballot. Think Big America is a major proponent of radical abortion policies and was founded by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
As my colleague Jordan Boyd previously reported, the initiative, known as Amendment G, contains “vague and undefined language would allow [abortion] through all nine months of pregnancy as long as a physician deems it necessary for women’s ‘health.’” The proposed constitutional amendment also “opens the door for outside activists like Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union to sue to eliminate parental rights and conscience protections for doctors who have moral or religious objections to abortion,” Boyd wrote.
Promoting pro-abortion causes is hardly the only left-wing advocacy Think Big America engages in, however.
According to InfluenceWatch, Pritzker previously indicated the group “will campaign to combat” conservative efforts such as keeping material “deemed inappropriate for children” out of school libraries and passing legislation enhancing the integrity of elections. The Democrat governor claimed, as described by the nonprofit watchdog, that “those who support such initiatives along with supporting abortion restrictions are ‘right-wing extremists.’”
South Dakota Public Broadcasting noted that Think Big America’s $500,000 donation brings Dakotans for Health’s total fundraising to nearly $800,000, “cut[ting] the funding gap” between the pro-abortion organization and two pro-life groups “in half.” Life Defense Fund and No G for SD collectively raised $1.5 million over the past five months “to oppose Amendment G,” according to the outlet.
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Despite the threat Amendment G poses to unborn babies in South Dakota, the Mount Rushmore State’s Republican leadership was largely mum on the subject in the months leading up to the November election. As noted by Boyd last month, “Gov. Kristi Noem, Senate Minority Whip John Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds, Rep. Dusty Johnson … [were] curiously quiet about the biggest threat to their constituents’ values.”
These GOP officials came out in opposition to Amendment G following the publication of Boyd’s report highlighting their silence.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
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