With abortion rights on up to nearly a quarter of state ballots this November, many groups are worried that funding is too tight to campaign successfully in all of them.
In ultra-conservative states such as Arkansas and South Dakota, even large-scale national donors are slim. Because of how conservative the states are, donors said they were focusing on states where legislation could actually be passed and went at least as far as Roe v. Wade.
“Our motto is, ‘No steps backwards,’” Beth Huang, the civic engagement and democracy program officer for the Tides Foundation, told Politico. “Roe is the floor, and we are prioritizing measures that reestablish the floor. We don’t want to support policies that enable backsliding.”
In both Arkansas and South Dakota, there are near-total
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