{"id":1810,"date":"2024-01-06T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2024-01-06T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T10:30:24","slug":"dark-money-is-flowing-to-groups-trying-to-limit-medication-abortion-leonard-leo-is-again-at-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/dark-money-is-flowing-to-groups-trying-to-limit-medication-abortion-leonard-leo-is-again-at-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark money is flowing to groups trying to limit medication abortion. Leonard Leo is again at the center."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central to the effort to block use of the drug is conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, who has played a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/04\/17\/the-conservative-pipeline-to-the-supreme-court\">well-known role<\/a> shaping the current judiciary <a href=\"https:\/\/fedsoc.org\/board-of-directors\">via the Federalist Society<\/a> and advising former President Donald Trump on Supreme Court picks. Less examined is the vast web of entities linked to Leo that work to promote his conservative Christian worldview by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2023\/12\/how-leonard-leos-dark-money-network-orchestrated-a-new-attack-on-the-voting-rights-act\/\">weakening the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/29\/oklahoma-public-christian-schools-00132534\">promoting publicly funded religious schools<\/a> \u2014 and restricting access to medication abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/01\/leonard-leo-center-medication-abortion-restriction-efforts\/\">19th News <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central to the effort to block use of the drug is conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, who has played a well-known role shaping the current judiciary via the Federalist Society and advising former President Donald Trump on Supreme Court picks. Less examined is the vast web of entities linked to Leo that work to promote &#8230; <a title=\"Dark money is flowing to groups trying to limit medication abortion. Leonard Leo is again at the center.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/dark-money-is-flowing-to-groups-trying-to-limit-medication-abortion-leonard-leo-is-again-at-the-center\/\" aria-label=\"More on Dark money is flowing to groups trying to limit medication abortion. Leonard Leo is again at the center.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,211,141,276],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion-funding","tag-anti-abortion-organizations","tag-anti-abortion-strategy","tag-christian-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}