Thread by @UnKochCampus

Today, the Supreme Court heard arguments surrounding #abortion today, so it’s a good time to reflect on Koch involvement in the restriction of reproductive rights. 1/10 #DobbsvJackson

The Koch network has long been involved in the fight against safe, quality reproductive health options, supporting some of the most active anti-abortion organizations: Alliance Defending Freedom, Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, and more over the years. 2/10

The Koch network has poured tens of millions of dollars into organizations like the Center to Protect Patient Rights and Freedom Partner, both of which spent millions in promoting anti-choice legislation and candidates. 3/10

Koch-funded orgs contributed to anti-abortion laws that flooded state legislature in 2013. CPPR funded 39% of Americans United for Life’s budget in the early 2010’s, which helped AUL produce the “model legislation” for stripping abortion access. bit.ly/3Edavbi 4/10

In addition to funding organizations that help pass restrictive reproductive health bills, the Kochs’ connection to climate misinformation has had an irreparable impact on Black maternal health. 5/10

The Koch network has a vested interest in data that supports deregulation and lax environmental laws, and thus funds climate misinformation that advocates for deregulation, like George Washington University’s Center for Regulatory Studies. bit.ly/3lqXlzM 6/10

Because of lax policies that come from deregulation, 68% of Black Americans end up living next to polluters, causing chronic medical conditions contributing to Black and Indigenous maternal mortality rate = 2-3x higher than white women in the U.S. bit.ly/3EdsZbu 7/10

The impact of Koch money is real and incredibly dangerous. By 2014, Texas only had 24 abortion clinics, and by that October, there were only eight, due to HB2, a highly restrictive, anti-abortion bill that passed in Texas in 2013, promoted by the orgs fueled by Koch money 8/10

More recently, the Kochs threw a lot of money behind Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court (after also backing Brett Kavanaugh in 2018). Coney Barrett has made it clear that she is no supporter of abortion rights. bit.ly/31e0tbI 9/10

All thanks to the deep, dark pockets of the Koch Network, we could possibly see national restrictions on #abortion, or even access to birth control. 10/10 #UnKochReproHealth #UnKochEverything