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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Nick Robins-Early

Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game

Abortion rights protesters on 16 May 2023, in Raleigh, North Carolina, after state house members voted to override the governor’s abortion-ban veto.
Abortion rights protesters on 16 May 2023, in Raleigh, North Carolina, after state house members voted to override the governor’s abortion-ban veto. Photograph: Chris Seward/AP

As North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban is due to come into effect on 1 July, an analysis from the non-profit Center for Political Accountability (CPA) shows several major corporations donated large sums to a Republican political organization which in turn funded groups working to elect anti-abortion state legislators.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) received donations of tens of thousands of dollars each from corporations including Comcast, Intuit, Wells Fargo, Amazon, Bank of America and Google last year, the CPA’s analysis of IRS filings shows. The contributions were made in the months after Politico published a leaked supreme court decision indicating that the court would end the right to nationwide abortion access.

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