These Conservative Christian Lawyers Are Helping States Defend Their Abortion Bans Mother Jones [Video]

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider its third major abortion case in two years—and the third brought with the help of a legal nonprofit attempting to infuse American life with its far-right brand of Christianity.

Not only is the group, Alliance Defending Freedom, behind legislation to ban abortion, it is also increasingly representing state governments in their efforts to protect and enforce the bans. The result is an ethically fraught arrangement that puts legal representation of the public in the hands of a religious organization that hauls in more than $100 million per year in tax-exempt donations, largely from undisclosed sources. (Though the group is not required to disclose its donors, the New Yorker reportedlast year that the family behind the Hobby Lobby craft store—which sued successfully against the contraception coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act, with …