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Meet The Shadowy Leftist Network Pushing Abortion Pills In Red States

Meet The Shadowy Leftist Network Pushing Abortion Pills In Red States

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"position&colon;relative" data-narration-container&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Shortly after a draft Supreme Court decision striking down <em>Roe <&sol;em>v&period; <em>Wade<&sol;em> leaked&comma; three politically connected friends came together to form a new &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;charity” to promote abortion pills in states that ban them&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The group&comma; Mayday Health&comma; sponsors stunts across the country that instruct women how to defy pro-life state laws&period; Just a few weeks ago&comma; it <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailywire&period;com&sol;news&sol;gop-ag-sues-biden-alums-pro-abortion-group-over-state-fair-stunt" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">caught the attention<&sol;a> of Kentucky’s attorney general&comma; who is now suing the company for flying a banner over the state fair advertising illegal abortion pills&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">M<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">ayday’s actions often catch the eye of legacy media outlets&comma; but the complex web of liberal money backing the enterprise has managed to remain a mystery&comma; until now&period; Tax documents obtained by The Daily Wire reveal that <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday’s dubious activities are funded with millions of dollars from a cadre of influential leftist nonprofits and some of the most prominent liberal billionaires in the country&comma; including George Soros&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The founders of the New York-based Mayday include a transgender-identifying former Biden administration official named Olivia &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Liv” Raisner&comma; who now goes by Leo Raisner&semi; Democrat speechwriter Sam Koppelman&semi; and entrepreneur Nathaniel Horwitz&period; The trio&comma; former <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;politico&period;com&sol;news&sol;magazine&sol;2024&sol;05&sol;25&sol;hunterbrook-media-sam-koppelman-journalism-00158129" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">roommates<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> in Williamsburg&comma; are all closely linked to Hunterbrook&comma; a liberal publisher that <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;hntrbrk&period;com&sol;about-us" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">openly aims<&sol;a> to game financial markets with its stories&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday says its purpose is to provide &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reliable and accurate health information” on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reproductive health medications” including &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;abortion medication” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;gender affirming care&comma;” according to the tax documents&period; It purports to receive over 73&comma;000 visits per day to its website and to have reached &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;over 45 million people” through its campaigns&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mayday did not respond to request for comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Who’s Funding Mayday&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Tax filings from 2022 and 2024 show that Mayday’s efforts are powered by a who’s who list of liberal activists and organizations&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178127" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-scaled&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"2560" height&equals;"1060" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-scaled&period;png 2560w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-300x124&period;png 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-1024x424&period;png 1024w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-768x318&period;png 768w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-1536x636&period;png 1536w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-01-at-2&period;26&period;26-PM-1-2048x848&period;png 2048w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 2560px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 2560px"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Among the funders is the New York-based Soros Economic Development Fund at the Open Society Foundations&comma; an entity infamous among conservatives for its founder&comma; leftwing billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros&comma; and its support for liberal immigration and soft-on-crime initiatives&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The Soros Economic Development Fund gave Mayday &dollar;150&comma;000 in 2024&comma; <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;133965896&sol;202523219349103257&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">according<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to tax records&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The same year&comma; the Soros Economic Development Fund gave &dollar;1 million to Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;to provide malpractice insurance to shield providers enabling telehealth abortion access” and &dollar;195&comma;000 to National Women’s Health Network for the purpose of creating a new insurance company to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cover the independent providers of telehealth-related abortion services to those in states where abortion is not legal&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday launched in a large part thanks to the Hopewell Fund&comma; which is linked to one of the most infamous dark money networks in the country&comma; <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailywire&period;com&sol;news&sol;bill-gates-cuts-off-dem-dark-money-network-that-hes-given-millions-to" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Arabella Advisors<&sol;span><&sol;a>&period; The Hopewell Fund told The Daily Wire it was Mayday’s fiscal sponsor before the abortion group broke off to become independent in 2023&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the fiscal sponsor&comma; the Hopewell Fund was able to process tax deductible donations for Mayday before the organization officially became its own nonprofit&period; Run<span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> by the former chief of staff for New York Attorney General Letitia James&comma; the Hopewell Fund <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;473681860&sol;202333149349300038&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">disclosed<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> that it funneled &dollar;1&comma;586&comma;219 to Mayday for the fiscal year ending December 2022&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;1178133" style&equals;"width&colon;1034px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-1178133" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1178133" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-1087975552&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sideline of the World Economic Forum &lpar;WEF&rpar; annual meeting&comma; on January 24&comma; 2019 in Davos&comma; eastern Switzerland&period; Billionaire investor George Soros said&comma; on January 24&comma; 2019 that Chinese President Xi Jinping was &quot&semi;the most dangerous enemy&quot&semi; of free societies for presiding over a high-tech surveillance regime&period;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-1087975552&period;jpg 1024w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-1087975552-300x200&period;jpg 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-1087975552-864x576&period;jpg 864w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-1087975552-768x512&period;jpg 768w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 1024px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 1024px"&sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p id&equals;"caption-attachment-1178133" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Credit&colon; Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI &sol; AFP via Getty Images&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">That fiscal sponsorship came when <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;882577468&sol;202321319349302872&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">filings<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> from Mayday showed its total revenue for its first year came in at &dollar;2&comma;800&comma;250&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hopewell Fund is proud to support Mayday’s work to provide people with information about safe&comma; legal reproductive health care&comma; including medication abortion&comma;” the organization told The Daily Wire&comma; adding that it complied with all legal requirements&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We stand with organizations working to expand and protect reproductive rights&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Hopewell&comma; which has disbursed &dollar;600 million to liberal groups since 2015 and whose staff make <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fec&period;gov&sol;data&sol;receipts&sol;individual-contributions&sol;&quest;contributor&lowbar;employer&equals;hopewell&plus;foundation" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">frequent contributions<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to Democrats&comma; would go on to <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;473681860&sol;202423179349304767&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">funnel <&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&dollar;768&comma;240 to Mayday in 2023&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Tax records indicate that Hopewell has served as a pass-through for donations to Mayday for the Ford Foundation&comma; another massive nonprofit that funnels millions to leftist organizations&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Ford Foundation filings from <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;131684331&sol;202343199349104934&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2022<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;131684331&sol;202423199349105557&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2023<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> show that the organization routed &dollar;500&comma;000 total to Mayday through the Hopewell Fund&period; The money was designated for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;corp support” for Mayday and to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;raise awareness of safe reproductive health options and advocacy to protect healthcare providers&period;” <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday’s own 2023 filing&comma; which was obtained by The Daily Wire&comma; notes a &dollar;250&comma;000 donation from the Ford Foundation&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The Ford Foundation&comma; which funds a plethora of leftist groups&comma; has a history of funding abortion groups directly and through dark money groups&period; It <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;131684331&sol;202203199349101880&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">routed<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> &dollar;800&comma;000 in 2021 through dark money group New Venture Fund for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;core support” for the All Above All Reproductive Justice Coalition to expand &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;abortion access&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Another major Mayday donor who apparently used a pass-through organization is abortion activist Phoebe Gates&comma; the daughter of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&period; Phoebe&comma; a major Democratic <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fec&period;gov&sol;data&sol;receipts&sol;individual-contributions&sol;&quest;contributor&lowbar;name&equals;phoebe&plus;gates" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">donor<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and outspoken a<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">bortion <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vogue&period;com&sol;slideshow&sol;phoebe-gates-reproductive-freedom-for-all-washington-diary" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">supporter<&sol;a>&comma; gave Mayday &dollar;100&comma;000 in 2024&comma; according to tax records obtained by The Daily Wire&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;1180011" style&equals;"width&colon;1034px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-1180011" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-1180011" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-2243869774&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SAN FRANCISCO&comma; CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 28&colon; Phoebe Gates&comma; Co-Founder&comma; Phia&comma; speaks onstage during day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on October 28&comma; 2025 in San Francisco&comma; California&period;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-2243869774&period;jpg 1024w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-2243869774-300x200&period;jpg 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-2243869774-864x576&period;jpg 864w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-2243869774-768x512&period;jpg 768w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 1024px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 1024px"&sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p id&equals;"caption-attachment-1180011" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Phoebe Gates&colon; Credit&colon; Photo by Kimberly White&sol;Getty Images for TechCrunch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Gates designated the funding through <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;charity&period;org&sol;about&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Global Impact<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&comma; a Washington&comma; D&period;C&period;-based charity adviser and intermediary that has routinely <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;charity&period;org&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;Global-Impact-2024-Form-990-Public-Copy&period;pdf" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">routed<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> other funds to pro-abortion groups&period; In previous interviews&comma; Gates <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;christinaohlyevans&period;com&sol;blog-1&sol;born-to-give-the-philanthropic-urge-of-phoebe-gates&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;chatgpt&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">acknowledged<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> that she gave millions to so-called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reproductive health” groups&comma; but did not specify how much and to what groups&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday has received other funds through similar donor-advised charity groups&comma; <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;527082731&sol;202403209349313980&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">including<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> at least &dollar;2&period;1 million through the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and another &dollar;10&comma;000 from the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust&period; Those platforms enable donors to anonymously send funds to nonprofits&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Other major nonprofits that have donated to Mayday in the last three years include the Gottesman Fund &lpar;&dollar;150&comma;000 between <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;526061469&sol;202411939349100121&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2022<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;526061469&sol;202601959349100300&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2024<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&rpar;&comma; the Educational Foundation of America &lpar;&dollar;200&comma;000 between <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;133424750&sol;202433209349100103&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2023<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;133424750&sol;202523159349103007&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2024<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&rpar;&comma; the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund &lpar;&dollar;300&comma;000 <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;ldgfund&period;org&sol;our-grants&sol;grants-database&sol;&quest;&lowbar;search&lowbar;term&equals;mayday" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">between<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> 2023 and 2025&rpar;&comma; the Surgo Foundation US &lpar;&dollar;650&comma;000 between <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;611733092&sol;202503179349100240&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2024<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;611733092&sol;202631329349103513&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2025<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&rpar;&comma; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation &lpar;&dollar;600&comma;000 <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;packard&period;org&sol;grantee&sol;mayday-medicines&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">between<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> 2023 and 2025&rpar;&comma; the George Kaiser Family Foundation &lpar;&dollar;75&comma;000 in 2023&rpar;&comma; and the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund &lpar;&dollar;125&comma;000 between <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;946064551&sol;202303149349102125&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2022<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;946064551&sol;202533189349103623&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2024<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&rpar;&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Many of these organizations have radical pro-abortion initiatives and maintain ties with the shadowy world of abortion pill distribution&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">For example&comma; the Gottesman Fund in 2024 <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;526061469&sol;202601959349100300&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">donated<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to the Yellowhammer Fund &lpar;&dollar;200&comma;000&rpar; and the Brigid Alliance &lpar;&dollar;200&comma;000&rpar;&comma; both organizations that cover abortion related travel&period; Additionally&comma; it gave &dollar;200&comma;000 to If&sol;When&sol;How Lawyers For Reproductive Justice&comma; a leftist organization fighting for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reproductive” justice&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The Maryland-based Educational Foundation of America&comma; a charity started by the co-founder of textbook giant Prentice-Hall&comma; funds a plethora of abortion causes&comma; including the pro-abortion investment group Reproductive Health Investors Alliance&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The same <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;projects&period;propublica&period;org&sol;nonprofits&sol;organizations&sol;133424750&sol;202433209349100103&sol;full" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">year<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> it gave to Mayday&comma; it wrote a &dollar;100&comma;000 check to the Hopewell Fund routed to the Reproductive Health Accountability Fund&comma; a Democrat-aligned group that <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thehousemajoritypac&period;com&sol;news&sol;memo-hmp-launches-100-million-reproductive-freedom-accountability-fund" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">engages<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> in pro-abortion voter registration and mobilization campaigns&period; It also routed another &dollar;100&comma;000 through the Hopewell Fund for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;resources for abortion delivery general operating support&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The Surgo Foundation US is led by Oliver Haarmann&comma; the German financier and reported beau of actress Reese Witherspoon&period; Haarmann’s ex-wife Mala Gaonkar&comma; a major <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fec&period;gov&sol;data&sol;receipts&sol;individual-contributions&sol;&quest;contributor&lowbar;name&equals;Mala&plus;Gaonkar&amp&semi;two&lowbar;year&lowbar;transaction&lowbar;period&equals;2026&amp&semi;min&lowbar;date&equals;01&percnt;2F01&percnt;2F2025&amp&semi;max&lowbar;date&equals;12&percnt;2F31&percnt;2F2026" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">donor<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to the Democrat aligned <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;madepac&period;com&sol;about" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Made In America<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> PAC&comma; also runs the fund&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Each of these groups&comma; which The Daily Wire reached out to for comment&comma; helped fund Mayday’s mission of promoting the abortion pill in restricted states&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>What is Mayday&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday Medicines &lpar;doing business as Mayday Health&rpar; was incorporated in Delaware on May 23&comma; 2022&comma; according to business records&period; That came just 21 days after Politico published a draft of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down <em>Roe <&sol;em>v&period;<em> Wade<&sol;em> and return abortion law to the states&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The organization is based in New York City&comma; where Democrats have passed a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;shield law” stipulating that it will not cooperate with law enforcement attempting to arrest individuals who ship abortion pills into states where they are prohibited&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday’s website highlights its various campaigns&comma; including <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;threeforfreedom&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Three for Freedom<&sol;span><&sol;a>&comma;<span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> a guide to obtaining mail-order abortion and birth control pills run by influencer Dr&period; Jennifer Lincoln<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">One of the organizations promoted by Mayday Health is <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;abuzzhealth&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Abuzz<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&comma; which promises &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fast” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;discreet” abortion pill shipping to all <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">50 states&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Packages arrive in 2-5 days&period; Medications are shipped in a plain mailing envelope&comma;” Abuzz’s website says&period; The cost of the pills is a sliding scale between &dollar;0 and &dollar;145&comma; and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;providers do not require a phone call or video visit” typically when requesting the pills&comma; which are known to have dangerous side effects&comma; including death&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Abuzz allows people to stockpile abortion pills and encourages them to lie to medical professionals if experiencing complications from undergoing an abortion&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The treatment for a miscarriage and abortion are the same&comma; so you can just say something like &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m bleeding but it doesn’t feel like my usual period&period; I’m afraid something is wrong’ or &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m pregnant and bleeding&period; I’m scared there’s something wrong’ and you should get the care you need&comma;” its website says&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">It also encourages young girls to get abortions without parental approval&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In some states there are laws that make it difficult for young people to access abortion&period; If you’re under 18&comma; the resources below can help you access abortion even if you don’t have support from your parents&comma;” Abuzz says&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image"><img loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178149" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"2454" height&equals;"1028" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM&period;png 2454w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM-300x126&period;png 300w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM-1024x429&period;png 1024w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM-768x322&period;png 768w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM-1536x643&period;png 1536w&comma; https&colon;&sol;&sol;dw-wp-production&period;imgix&period;net&sol;2026&sol;09&sol;Screenshot-2026-09-14-at-1&period;50&period;28-PM-2048x858&period;png 2048w" sizes&equals;" &lpar;max-width&colon; 2454px&rpar; 100vw&comma; 2454px"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Mayday also promotes groups like At Home Abortion&comma; which <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;athomeabortion&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">boasts<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> that it can provide &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;abortion pills online anywhere in the U&period;S&period;” in a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;plain mailer” in two to four days&period; There’s also <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Plan C&comma; a radical organization funded by the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund that documents what activist groups provide abortion pills with no questions asked&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">In addition to promoting abortion pill providers&comma; Mayday pushes multiple &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;gender-affirming care” organizations including <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;queermed&period;com&sol;what-we-do&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">QueerMed<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&comma; the Black Trans Travel Fund&comma; and <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;elevatedaccess&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Elevated Access<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&period; QueerMed provides cross-sex hormone treatments to adults and kids through telemedicine while Elevated Access gives free plane rides to people traveling for transgender procedures&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Who’s Behind Mayday&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">The founders of Mayday — Olivia Raisner&comma; Nathaniel Horwitz&comma; and Sam Koppelman — have deep roots in Democrat politics&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Before starting Mayday&comma; Raisner worked for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign before becoming President Joe Biden’s traveling content director in 2020&period; She went on to take a similar role in Biden’s administration at the White House Office of Digital Strategy&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Raisner targeted crisis pregnancy centers in a <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;msmagazine&period;com&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;15&sol;crisis-pregnancy-center-undercover&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">2022 video<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;exposing” how employees of an Indiana center encouraged her to keep her baby and offered her financial support after she lied and told them she was pregnant&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">That was before she identified as transgender and underwent gender surgery&comma; <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;assignedmedia&period;org&sol;breaking-news&sol;gender-exploration-therapy-conversion-therapy-liv-raisner&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">according<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to Assigned Media&period; She then did another investigation of therapists who encourage gender-confused individuals to embrace their actual identity&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Raisner started Mayday with Horwitz and Koppelman in 2022&period; In 2024&comma; she became the group’s executive director and earned a &dollar;174&comma;000 salary&comma; according to tax filings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We kept hearing from groups&comma; activists&comma; advocates that abortion pills were going to be the future in a post-<em>Roe<&sol;em> era&comma; but that very few people knew about them&comma;” Raisner <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;time&period;com&sol;6239573&sol;mayday-health-abortion-pills&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">told<&sol;a> Time Magazine&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A lot of groups couldn’t take on the risk of spreading the word&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Koppelman also spent time writing for former Attorney General Eric Holder&comma; New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg&comma; and surrogates for the Biden-Harris campaign&period;  <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Raisner&comma; Koppelman&comma; and Horwitz are all <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;hntrbrk&period;com&sol;team" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">linked closely<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> to leftist journalism platform called Hunterbrook&comma; where Horwitz is the CEO&comma; Koppelman is the publisher&comma; and Raisner is a senior advisor&period; The<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> <&sol;span><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;hntrbrk&period;com&sol;about-us" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">publication<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400"> is a journalism model that attempts to make money off of playing the market based on stories they write on various companies&comma; saying the money will be used for activism&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hunterbrook Media investigates and then publishes&period; Hunterbrook capital invests based on those findings to fund news without ads or paywalls&period; Hunterbrook law then partners with litigation firms to seek justice for people who have been harmed&comma;” the company says&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon;400">Its roster of advisors includes ProPublica CEO Paul Steiger and Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hunterbrook also did not respond to request for comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Mayday’s Battle Against Red States<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Kentucky’s lawsuit against Mayday is not the first time the organization has faced legal problems&period; It fought off a subpoena from Mississippi after it put up billboards in the state following the fall of <em>Roe&comma; <&sol;em>and it recently won a victory in South Dakota after a federal judge appointed by Biden blocked a state law targeting groups like Mayday&period; That followed an initial settlement when Mayday agreed to remove abortion pill ads following action from Attorney General Marty Jackley&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mayday has maintained its efforts are protected by the First Amendment and that it is only providing information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many red states have grappled with how to deal with a flood of abortion pills flowing freely across their borders after <em>Roe <&sol;em>was overturned&period; Some estimates appear to show tens of thousands of unborn children are still being aborted in states where medication abortions are technically illegal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some pro-life activists have urged the FDA to remove guidelines allowing the abortion pill to be sent through the mail&comma; while others have pushed for challenges to shield laws in states like New York that have blocked Republican attorneys general from taking action&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><br &sol;>&NewLine;<br &sol;><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailywire&period;com&sol;news&sol;mayday-exposed-inside-the-shadowy-leftist-network-pushing-abortion-pills-in-red-states">Source link <&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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