KANSAS CITY, Mo.  — Thousands and thousands of {dollars} are pouring into the abortion vote campaigns in Kansas.

The KSHB 41 I-Workforce seemed on the latest marketing campaign studies filed this week and thus far, the difficulty has raised greater than $11 million.

We have seen the campaigns on either side ramping up their fundraising and their messaging because the Aug. 2 main attracts close to.

So, who’s forward with slightly beneath two weeks to go?

Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, the group on the “Vote No” facet, has raised greater than $6.5 million.

Worth Them Each, the anti-abortion group on the “Vote Sure” facet, has raised practically $4.7 million.

The Catholic Archdioceses in Kansas look like the driving pressure behind the Worth Them Each marketing campaign, donating $3.1 million.

The Archdiocese of Kansas Metropolis in Kansas has pulled in $2.Four million, whereas the Diocese of Wichita has donated about $552,000 and the Diocese of Salina donated $100,000.

Catholic church buildings and teams throughout the state have raised practically $160,000, however $100,000 of that got here from one faculty — St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Leawood.

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic males’s group, has raised about $41,000.

Anti-abortion teams, just like the Kansas Catholic Convention and Kansans for Life, have donated about $618,000 {dollars}.

Church buildings cannot donate to political candidates, however can donate to political causes, so this fundraising seems to fall according to what the IRS permits.

On the opposite facet of the difficulty, the Vote No facet, cash is pouring in from locations from Hawaii to New York to Canada.

Large activist teams just like the ACLU and Deliberate Parenthood have helped increase greater than $2 million.

Different philanthropic teams, reproductive rights teams and particular person donors are giving six-figure sums.

Not solely have donations ramped up within the final a number of months, however so have tensions surrounding this situation.

We have seen vandalism at church buildings like Ascension Catholic church, which donated practically $19,000 to the Worth Them Each trigger, and Village Presbyterian Church, which is encouraging voters to vote no.

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