Posted on 05/19/2019 10:08:05 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Abortion-rights groups see donations soar as Alabama law draws attention from activists, 2020 candidates
Washington (CNN)Donations to abortion-rights groups surged this week as presidential candidates, activists and even a group of Portland, Oregon, basketball fans reacted to Alabama enacting the nation's strictest abortion law. In four days, the National Network of Abortion Funds raised $504,000 from more than 18,000 people to help fund abortions, according to executive director Yamani Hernandez. That's nearly double the 9,500 donations the group receives annually, she said. "I feel like people have our backs," said Hernandez, whose organization supports 76 other funds in 41 states that help low-income women pay for abortions. Contributions to one of those funds in Alabama, The Yellowhammer Fund, easily surpassed $350,000 as of Friday morning -- far exceeding the group's roughly $80,000 annual budget, its executive director Amanda Reyes told CNN. The group helps underwrite abortions at the state's three independent clinics and provides financial help to women who travel out of state for abortions.
The total raised could be higher, Reyes said, because "it's been impossible" for her to track the donations "pouring in from so many sources." "It's been a response I don't think I could have ever anticipated," she said. "And honestly, I don't think it's a response maybe that the lawmakers who supported this really anticipated. I don't think they knew that their misogyny probably would end up paying for a lot of abortions now and in the future."
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Maybe these groups won’t need public funding anymore.
Why does CNN feel the need to report this and who called them up to provide the story cause they do zero investigative journalism. More propaganda.
15 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
English Standard Version 2 Ki 17:15.
Things haven't changed that much in almost 3,000 years.
I had epiphany this morning and possibly another way to look at this.
There was another period in our history where Christians saw injustice and, motivated by their beliefs, encouraged the country to act for the good. Those “human being’s” value was diminished so that they could be mistreated and even killed. They were not a life; they were property.
The Civil War and Slavery.
We all now conclude that slavery was wrong. I guess that hindsight is 20/20. But it was the Christians that moved us in the right direction to do the right thing.
Is there even one so-called “progressive” individual who, looking at an aborted baby’s completeness and beauty, can, with honesty, argue that he/she is not looking at a smaller version of himself/herself?
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