Voters in ten states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota—will decide on 11 abortion-related ballot measures in Nov. 2024. This is the most on record for a single year.
Ten of these measures would provide for a state constitutional right to abortion, while one measure would place a constitutional limit on abortion after the first trimester.
Regarding the campaigns registered to support or oppose the ballot measures, 11 campaigns describe themselves as pro-choice or pro-reproductive rights (hereafter, pro-choice campaigns), and 17 as pro-life (hereafter, pro-life campaigns).
As per the latest campaign finance reports, the pro-choice campaigns reported $111.7 million in contributions and $69.1 million in expenditures, while pro-life campaigns reported $10.4 million in contributions and $4.93 million in expenditures. In total, the pro-choice campaigns received 10.7 times more in contributions than pro-life campaigns while reporting 14 times more in expenditures.
The most expensive abortion-related ballot measure is Florida Amendment 4. Through Aug. 30, 2024, the campaign supporting the amendment reported $51.45 million in contributions and $28.9 million in expenditures, while the campaigns opposing the amendment reported $5.3 million in contributions and $883,374.28 in expenditures.
Several organizations have donated across multiple campaigns. The Fairness Project contributed $7.05 million to the abortion-related ballot measures in Arizona, Missouri, and Montana. The Sixteen Thirty Fund contributed $3.82 million to ballot measures in Arizona, Montana, and Nevada, and the American Civil Liberties Union contributed $3.17 million to ballot measures in Arizona, Florida, and Missouri. This does not include contributions from statewide chapters of these organizations.
This report shows the reported campaign contributions and expenditures of campaigns registered to support the abortion-related ballot measures on the Nov. 5, 2024 ballot.
A constitutional amendment that would establish a state constitutional right to abortion that the state may not interfere with before the point of fetal viability.
- Supporting campaign: Arizona for Abortion Access PAC
- Contributions as of July 13, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $21.8 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $1.71 million
- Total Contributions: $23.1 million
- Cash Expenditures: $11.7 million
- Total Expenditures: $13.4 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Arizonans Fed Up With Failing Health: $5 million
- The Fairness Project: $4.17 million
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund: $2.25 million
- American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.: $1.64 million
- Sixteen Thirty Fund: $1.25 million
- Opposing campaign: It Goes Too Far PAC
- Contributions as of July 13, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $836,699.06
- In-Kind Contributions: $29,636.32
- Total Contributions: $866,335.38
- Cash Expenditures: $444,096.78
- Total Expenditures: $473,733.10
- Top donors and amounts:
- David Lambert: $110,000.00
- John Connelly: $100,000.00
- Jonathan Mount: $35,000.00
- Laureen Mount: $35,000.00
A constitutional amendment that would provide a right to abortion in the state constitution. The initiative would prohibit the state or local governments from denying or impeding the right to an abortion and allow abortion to be a covered service under health insurance plans.
- Supporting campaign: Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom
- Contributions as of September 11, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $6.81 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $1.14 million
- Total Contributions: $7.95 million
- Cash Expenditures: $4.6 million
- Total Expenditures: $5.75 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Cobalt Advocates: $1.72 million
- Open Society Policy Center: $1 million
- Michael Bloomberg: $750,000.00
- Cobalt Foundation: $585,000.00
- Institute for Responsive Government Action, Inc.: $510,000.00
- Opposing campaigns: Pro-Life Colorado Fund, Coloradans for the Protection of Women and Children, and Vote No on 79
- Contributions as of September 11, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $126,870.24
- In-Kind Contributions: $14,109.61
- Total Contributions: $140,979.85
- Cash Expenditures: $13,046.90
- Total Expenditures: $27,156.51
- Top donors and amounts:
- Archdiocese of Denver: $50,000.00
- Andrew Wommack Ministries: $30,000.00
- Tactical Data Solutions, Inc.: $10,000.00
- Catherine Wheeler: $5,000.00
- Colorado Right to Life Committee: $3,993.61
A constitutional amendment that would provide a constitutional right to abortion “before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
- Supporting campaign: Floridians Protecting Freedom
- Contributions as of August 30, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $48.2 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $3.21 million
- Total Contributions: $51.4 million
- Cash Expenditures: $25.7 million
- Total Expenditures: $28.9 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Marsha Laufer $9.6 million
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation: $5.35 million
- Tides Foundation: $3.19 million
- Florida Advancement Project $2.11 million
- American Civil Liberties Union: $1.26 million
- Opposing campaign: Florida Voters Against Extremism, Keep Florida Pro Life, Do No Harm Florida, and Life First PC, and Florida Freedom Fund
- Contributions as of August 30, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $5.07 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $257,337.50
- Total Contributions: $5.33 million
- Cash Expenditures: $626,036.78
- Total Expenditures: $883,374.28
- Top donors and amounts:
- Conservatives for Principled Leadership: $1.05 million
- Floridians for Economic Leadership: $1 million
- Michael Charles Dearing: $500,000.00
- Holly Boswell: $400,000.00
- Archdiocese of Miami: $322,593.00
A constitutional amendment that would guarantee a right to reproductive freedom, including the ability to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy. The ballot measure is designed to prohibit the constitutional right from being denied or infringed unless there is a compelling state interest, which would need to be achieved using the least restrictive means.
- Supporting campaign: Freedom in Reproduction
- Contributions as of August 27, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $553,435.08
- In-Kind Contributions: $14,925.71
- Total Contributions: $568,360.79
- Cash Expenditures: $257,607.93
- Total Expenditures: $272,533.64
- Top donors and amounts:
- Planned Parenthood: $150,000.00
- Planned Parenthood of Metro Washington DC: $100,000.00
- Nancy Hackerman: $35,000.00
- Alexandra Ledbetter: $25,000.00
- Robert Meyerhoff: $25,000.00
- Opposing campaign: Health Not Harm MD
- Contributions as of August 27, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $79,473.99
- In-Kind Contributions: $3,343.00
- Total Contributions: $82,816.99
- Cash Expenditures: $39,149.78
- Total Expenditures: $42,492.78
- Top donors and amounts:
- Donald Burke: $5,200.00
- Frederick County Right to Life: $5,000.00
- Law Office of Robert A. Brocate, PA: $5,000.00
- Mary McDonald Hand: $5,000.00
A constitutional amendment that would provide a right to reproductive freedom, and provide that the state legislature may enact laws that regulate abortion after fetal viability.
- Supporting campaign: Missourians for Constitutional Freedom and Abortion Action Missouri.
- Contributions as of July 25, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $5.34 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $210,545.78
- Total Contributions: $5.55 million
- Cash Expenditures: $3.67 million
- Total Expenditures: $3.88 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- The Fairness Project: $795,805.75
- Global Impact Social Fund: $500,000.00
- American Civil Liberties Union, Inc.: $266,009.00
- Health Forward Foundation: $250,000.00
- American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri: $203,453.27
- Opposing campaign: Missouri Stands with Women
- Contributions as of July 25, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $198,089.00
- In-Kind Contributions: $0
- Total Contributions: $198,089.00
- Cash Expenditures: $182,630.59
- Total Expenditures: $182,630.59
- Top donors and amounts:
- Raymond Rudder: $100,000.00
- Jon Sauer: $20,000.00
- House Republican Campaign Committee Inc.: $10,000.00
- Missouri Senate Campaign Committee: $10,000.00
A constitutional amendment to provide for the right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including a right to abortion.
- Supporting campaign: Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights
- Contributions as of: August 25, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $11.5 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $300,827.86
- Total Contributions: $11.8 million
- Cash Expenditures: $7.7 million
- Total Expenditures: $8 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Advocacy Action Fund: $3 million
- Sixteen Thirty Fund: $2.07 million
- GISWF – Montana: $1.47 million
- The Fairness Project: $1.26 million
- Gwendolyn Sontheim: $1 million
- Opposing campaign: Defend Life and Montana Life Defense Fund
- Contributions as of: August 25, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $10,176.00
- In-Kind Contributions: $17,362.86
- Total Contributions: $27,538.86
- Cash Expenditures: $8,602.96
- Total Expenditures: $25,965.82
- Top donors and amounts:
- Montana Family Foundation: $14,912.86
- Prolife Montana: $3,500.00
- Lost Media: $2,450.00
A constitutional amendment that would prohibit abortions after the first trimester unless necessitated by a medical emergency or the pregnancy is a result of sexual assault or incest.
- Supporting campaign: Protect Women & Children
- Contributions as of: July 30, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $3.12 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $645.00
- Total Contributions: $3.12 million
- Cash Expenditures: $2.74 million
- Total Expenditures: $2.74 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Pete Ricketts: $1.11 million
- Marlene Ricketts: $1 million
- Shawn Peed: $500,000.00
- Thomas Peed: $500,000.00
A constitutional amendment that would establish a right to abortion until fetal viability.
- Supporting campaign: Protect Our Rights
- Contributions as of July 30, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $2.82 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $865,779.27
- Total Contributions: $3.69 million
- Cash Expenditures: $2.1 million
- Total Expenditures: $2.97 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska: $972,929.11
- ACLU Nebraska Inc: $689,073.87
- Nebraska Appleseed Action Fund: $317,906.45
- Women’s Fund of Omaha: $162,481.45
- Nebraska Civic Engagement Table: $107,705.96
A constitutional amendment to establish a state right to an abortion. The measure would allow for the state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, except where medically indicated to protect the life, physical health, or mental health of the pregnant woman.
- Supporting campaign: Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom PAC
- Contributions as of June 30, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $4.61 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $38,303.40
- Total Contributions: $4.65 million
- Cash Expenditures: $3.73 million
- Total Expenditures: $3.77 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- Opposing campaign: The Coalition for Parents and Children
- Contributions as of June 30, 2024
- No contributions/expenditures reported
A constitutional amendment to prohibit the denial of a person’s rights based on the person’s “ethnicity, national origin, age, [and] disability,” as well as the person’s “sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
- Supporting campaign: New Yorkers for Equal Rights
- Contributions as of July 11, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $2.1 million
- In-Kind Contributions: $629,909.13
- Total Contributions: $2.73 million
- Cash Expenditures: $1.24 million
- Total Expenditures: $1.87 million
- Top donors and amounts:
- New York Civil Liberties Union: $856,753.31
- LJS Revocable Trust: $400,000.00
- Ntl Institute for Reproductive Health: $330,197.69
- Planned Parenthood Empire States Acts: $325,066.52
- NIRH Action Fund: $150,000.00
- SEIU New York State: $150,000.00
- Opposing campaign: Coalition to Protect Kids-NY
- Contributions as of July 11, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $274,834.00
- In-Kind Contributions: $0
- Total Contributions: $274,834.00
- Cash Expenditures: $241,941.78
- Total Expenditures: $241,941.78
- Top donors and amounts:
- Carol Crossed: $250,000.00
South Dakota Constitutional Amendment G
A constitutional amendment that would provide a trimester framework for regulating abortion. During the first trimester of pregnancy, the state would be prohibited from regulating a woman’s decision to have an abortion. During the second trimester of pregnancy, the state may regulate abortion, but “only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman.” During the third trimester of pregnancy, the state may regulate or prohibit abortion, except “when abortion is necessary, in the medical judgment of the woman’s physician, to preserve the life and health of the pregnant woman.”
- Supporting campaign: Dakotans for Health
- Contributions as of May 15, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $349,272.88
- In-Kind Contributions: $0
- Total Contributions: $349,272.88
- Cash Expenditures: $308,945.05
- Total Expenditures: $308,945.05
- Top donors and amounts:
- Elizabeth Zieglmeier: $10,000.00
- Stanford Adelstein: $10,000.00
- Arlene Kirby: $5,000.00
- Evelyn Rozner : $5,000.00
- Merwin Foster: $5,000.00
- Opposing campaign: Life Defense Fund
- Contributions as of May 15, 2024
- Cash Contributions: $365,892.98
- In-Kind Contributions: $846.72
- Total Contributions: $366,739.70
- Cash Expenditures: $317,453.74
- Total Expenditures: $318,300.46
- Top donors and amounts:
- SD Right to Life Committee: $68,000.00
- Sioux Falls Right to Life: $26,755.00
- Mitchell Right to Life: $10,742.00
- Rapid City Right to Life: $9,100.00
- Vermillion Area Right to Life: $8,100.00
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