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The most important abortion case in 2024 is covered in Leo’s fingerprints.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in a case challenging the legality of the abortion pill, mifepristone, new reporting from The 19th News reveals the role of conservative kingpin Leonard Leo in the effort to outlaw the medication.

Through an opaque trail of dark money transfers, Leo appears to bankroll the leading member of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), a coalition at the center of the abortion pill case. Ahead of AHM’s challenge of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone earlier this year, Leo funneled money through his shadowy network to the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists – a key group behind the Alliance. In fact, the reporting suggests that Leo deployed some of his $1.6 billion financial windfall to back AHM’s efforts.

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Leonard Leo’s decades-long campaign to undermine constitutional protections for abortion care and overturn Roe clearly wasn’t enough. Key groups in Leo's network are now funding an all-hands-on-deck effort to cut access to the abortion pill, threatening access to reproductive care even in states where abortion is legal. As usual, Leo is leveraging his shady web of nonprofits to force an extreme and wildly unpopular anti-abortion agenda on America.”

Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone.

Earlier this year, reports emerged about Leonard Leo’s deep connections to the judge who initially ruled against the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, Matthew Kacsmaryk. Now, its fate rests before Leo’s hand-picked Supreme Court justices who eliminated abortion rights at their very first chance. Leo’s plan to outlaw abortion nationwide remains clear: fund right-wing organizations to make the legal arguments to overturn laws he doesn’t like and then stack the courts with right-wing judges who rule the way he likes.

Leo’s efforts to influence the future of abortion rights demonstrate his continued commitment to eliminating reproductive freedom nationwide and using his billion-dollar network to do it. Learn more about Leo, his dark money network, and his dangerous agenda at LeonardLeo.org.

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