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CV NEWS FEED // Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, whose estimated worth is $3.7 billion, poured millions of dollars into abortion ballot initiatives across eight different states through his pro-choice nonprofit Think Big America.
Advantage News reports that on November 7, Pritzker himself said, “People felt like their reproductive rights were under attack and so there were a lot of people who showed up to vote around that issue and I am proud to say the organization I founded, Think Big America, we won the vast majority of the referenda across the country that protected women’s reproductive rights.”
He added, “Tens of millions across the country have rights that they didn’t have codified before, rights that are now codified in their constitutions.”
Abortion ballot measures failed to pass in Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska; however, seven other states -– Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York — all passed legislation enshrining abortion in their state constitutions, as CatholicVote previously reported.
Advantage News states that Think Big American spent millions of dollars on the ballot measures in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona. The organization spent thousands on abortion ballot measures in Montana, Maryland, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Missouri.
David Smith, executive director of Illinois Family Institute, pointed out that the pro-choice movement is not an organic women’s rights movement.
“It’s not organic, it doesn’t come from the grassroots,” Smith said. “It’s all hyped up by fear-mongers who claim they [state governments] are going to take this right away from women, when that is not the truth.”
Smith also said he thinks Pritzker wanted to secure votes for the 2028 primary, and to do so aggressively pursued abortion “rights.”
He added, “I think that by being involved in all these states and giving liberally he is shoring up his credentials in the eyes of the far left-wing activist, who might be influential in the primaries of early 2028.”
