Dem Group Spends $500K To Legalize Abortion In South Dakota
A left-of-center advocacy group called Think Big America, founded by Illinois’ Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, has recently donated $500,000 to a South Dakota pro-abortion group, Dakotans for Health. This funding aims to support a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot that would allow abortions throughout pregnancy under vague criteria related to women’s health. The amendment has drawn criticism for its potential implications, including enabling groups like Planned Parenthood to challenge parental rights and conscience protections for doctors. The contribution boosts Dakotans for Health’s fundraising efforts, now totaling nearly $800,000, as they try to close the gap against pro-life initiatives that have collectively raised $1.5 million. Despite the significant implications of this amendment for unborn children, South Dakota’s Republican leadership has been largely silent on the issue until recent reports prompted them to voice their opposition. The debate around this proposed amendment highlights broader tensions regarding abortion rights and legislative priorities in the state.
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.
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