The Daily Beast: Anti-Abortion Groups Pocketed Millions in Federal COVID-19 Aid, Says Report - July 8, 2020
“Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT groups got their hands on millions of dollars from the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief program, according to a report from The Guardian. The groups that pocketed funds include the American Family Association—which has previously blamed the Holocaust on gay people—and the American Center for Law & Justice, an A movement that emerged in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, a decision which prevented states from outlawing abortion under most circumstances. Learn more group headed by Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow. Both groups reportedly got between $1-2 million each under the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program. “What we’re seeing with this is a lightyear leap into direct government financing of major A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more political entities on a scale we’ve never seen before,” Frederick Clarkson from Political Research Associates told the newspaper.”