red dawn?

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Jan 23, 2007

The National Organization for Women's Kim Gandy is very pleased with the edge stropped on the Democratic curette ...

The field of candidates for the 2008 Democratic nomination is like a dream come true: contenders include a woman frontrunner, an African American, a Latino, and several pro-choice, pro-peace, pro-family men. This rainbow represents much of the diversity of our nation, and has the potential to bring issues of relevance to far more people during the primary contest.

... and very cross with the folks who marched in Washington yesterday:

We have endured more than three decades of challenges and roadblocks from a well-funded opposition, and our rights are more tenuous than ever -- but we are determined to fight, and we will not go back to the days when women had 12, 15, 18 children, often dying in childbirth, their bodies spent. Or they died in back alleys or dirty motel rooms, or were left injured and infertile after botched illegal abortions.

Well-funded opposition? It would be interesting to match up the top half-dozen organizations pro- and contra abortion and compare their annual budgets. Anyone know of a publicly accessible source?

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Update: on a tip from a reader, I checked the 990 forms available at www.guidestar.org for 2004 (the last year returns were available for all the organizations listed). Below are the figures entered in the "contributions" line (1d) of the 990 form:

Pro-Abortion groups:

PPFA $55,005,202
NARAL $11,807,298
NOW $6,103,244
PFAW $4,810,695
CFFC $4,108,932
NAF $861,285

Anti-Abortion groups:

NRTL $11,834,502
PFL $7,142,253
ALL $6,397,419
LLDF $1,220,323
FFL $316,274
PLAN < $25,000

The upshot: methinks Kim Gandy doth protest too much.

Key: PPFA = Planned Parenthood Federation of America. NARAL = NARAL Pro-Choice America. NOW = National Organization for Women. PFAW = People for the American Way Action Fund. CFFC = Catholics for a Free Choice. NAF = National Abortion Federation. NRTL = National Right to Life. PFL = Priests for Life. ALL = American Life League. LLDF = Life Legal Defense Fund. FFL = Feminists for Life. PLAN = Pro-Life Action Network. Note: I can't say whether or not these groups in fact rate as the top half-dozen organizations pro and con; they were selectied off the top of my head to get a rough sense of the parity.