Forbes magazine estimates Michael Bloomberg’s net worth at nearly $77 billion. George Soros, a former hedge fund manager, was long among the wealthiest Americans. He has given more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations for work that aligns with his vision of democracy and individual rights.
The Open Society Policy Center, which has helped fund Proposal 3, is a tax-exempt nonprofit advocacy organization aligned with the Open Society Foundations. The center’s executive director, Thomas Perriello, is a former U.S. congressman from Virginia who campaigned as a Catholic Democrat with faith-based politics. He has served as president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and as a board member for the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood.
As CNA previously reported, in the mid-2000s Perriello helped to launch Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Catholics United, and Faith in Public Life. The two Catholic groups became the focus of controversy in 2016 when leaked emails from leading Democratic strategist John Podesta appeared to suggest they had been founded partly to help foment a “Catholic spring” revolt against the bishops.
In a June 19, 2021 opinion essay for the New York Times, Perriello criticized Catholic bishops for challenging “a practicing Catholic who supports abortion rights” like President Joe Biden and former U.S. Sen. John Kerry. He presented the bishops’ deliberations about Holy Communion as a partisan distraction from racial and economic justice.
The Soros network has long sought to change pro-life laws worldwide. In 2016, a leaked three-year plan for the Open Society Foundations’ Women’s Rights Program showed that it was targeting the pro-life provisions of Ireland’s national constitution. The strategy document suggested change in Ireland could be a model for change in other Catholic countries. The document also cited the foundations’ support for pro-abortion efforts in Mexico, Zambia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and other parts of Latin America and Europe.
Will these pro-abortion funders succeed in Michigan? Pollo, of Citizens to Support MI Women and Children, says it’s up to voters.
“Proposal 3 was intentionally written with confusing language in order to mislead voters into passing an extreme constitutional amendment that would repeal parental consent laws for children seeking abortions, repeal health regulations on abortion clinics, and allow abortion until birth,” Pollo told CNA. “We must vote no to protect women and children and ensure this extreme amendment is not used as a blueprint for other states in the future.”
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