Anti-abortion super PAC Women Speak Out is making its voice heard in several tight Senate races this cycle. But given its most recent donors, that voice might be a few octaves lower than you might expect.

Women Speak Out was founded as an offshoot of the Susan B. Anthony List in 2012, joining the election season fray with an ad narrated by an “abortion survivor.” The super PAC is “aimed at amplifying the voices of women opposed to abortion extremists in Congress,” according to its website.

But almost every individual donor assisting that amplification in the last two months was a man. Out of $16,000 the group received from individuals in September, only one donation of $1,000 came from a woman. In August, ditto: the group received four donations from individuals totaling nearly $530,000. Almost all of that sum — $500,000 — was provided by Robert Mercer, the Renaissance Technologies CEO who has bankrolled many conservative groups. Of the four gifts, one came from a woman: Carole McVaney, the wife of software magnate C. Edward McVaney, who gave $25,000.

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Strikingly, the top individual donors to the group in the three months prior were all men too. Sean Fieler, a hedge fund manager in New Jersey, gave $385,000 in July. John Coors, the great-grandson of beer tycoon Adolph Coors Sr., gave $25,000 in June. Robert Crnkovich, a senior counsel at the Department of Treasury, gave $5,000 in May.The super PAC also received a $200,000 gift from conservative funder Virginia James, a private investor in New Jersey.

Women Speak Out has spent a total $1.3 million this cycle in a handful of Congressional elections, including $900,000 to attack Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina. The group is also backing Republican House candidate Elise Stefanik in New York and opposing Greg Orman, the Independent Senate candidate in Kansas.

It is bankrolled by the Susan B Anthony List, which has donated more than $590,000 in 2014, including for operating costs. The anti-abortion powerhouse is funded by a mix of men and women, as is its pro-abortion rights opponent Emily’s LIST.



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