President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order freezing federal funding of Planned Parenthood and other groups that conduct abortions. This is a significant victory for the pro-life movement despite recent setbacks at the ballot box. For example, in last year’s presidential election, Trump won Arizona’s electoral college votes, but pro-lifers suffered a stinging defeat with the passage of a ballot measure to enshrine abortion in the state constitution. Why the discrepancy? One overlooked factor was the “Voters’ Right to Know Act,” a complex donor disclosure regime which suppressed support for the state’s pro-life law.
The misleadingly titled Voters’ Right to Know Act was passed via Prop 211 in 2022 after proponents claimed the measure would bring transparency to so-called “dark money.” However,
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