By Gabriella Borter

(Reuters) – U.S. rights advocates for abortion will spend $150 Million on 2022 midterm elections. The groups are focusing on battleground States as they increase efforts to ensure access to abortion in America, they stated on Monday.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL Pro-Choice America partnered to invest in Emily’s List. They said the investment was intended to “aggressively respond to unprecedented attacks on the sexual and reproductive rights across the nation and increase voters’ awareness about the legislators who are to be blame.”

A case involving a Republican-backed Mississippi abortion bill is set to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of June. This decision could alter or reverse 1973 Roe v. Wade, the ruling which legalized abortion in the United States.

The conservative justices in this case indicated that they were willing to significantly reduce U.S. abortion rights during oral arguments.

Republican-led state legislatures in anticipation of the ruling have been adopting increasingly stringent abortion bans. Five states passed 2022 laws that prohibit abortion in pregnancies earlier than was allowed under Roe v. Wade.

According to the three organizations, the majority of the money will go to swing states or states that can be crucial to their efforts in preventing abortion access from being lost across the country.

The money will be used for advertising and voter outreach. It also supports in-person activities in Washington D.C. and state capitals. They will also support national and state candidates.

Alexis McGill Johnson of Planned Parenthood stated that we have entered a “crisis moment” for access to abortion because some conservative politicians are participating in a concerted effort to control both our bodies as well as our futures.

A 2021 survey https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/08/24/0824ff5b-ee5c-49d4-a1dd-4de2c5a05919/me-14139_abortion_in_2022_11-12-21_1_1_1_1.pdf of “ambivalent registered voters” in mostly swing states, commissioned by Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List and American Bridge 21st Century, found the issue of abortion rights motivated voters to support Democrats over Republicans by a wide margin.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll in December found that 48% believe abortion should not be allowed for all cases. 38% think it should be banned in most cases or none at all, while 14% remain unsure.