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New Mexico’s fly-in late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd is backing eight Democrats in the upcoming state elections with $1,000-cheques, and a local pro-life group wants the voters to know about it. But the mainstream media won’t report it.

It’s a close election in two weeks with Republicans hoping they can grab the four seats in the House of Representatives to win their first majority there in more than 50 years. Elisa Martinez, executive director of Protect Women & Children New Mexico believes there are enough voters who are pro-life enough to be disgusted by late-term abortions to cast or shift a decisive block of ballots and bring in the pro-life GOP.

“It is disgusting that Emily Kane, Liz Thomson, Tim Keller and Maggie Toulouse Oliver would accept a donation from this abortionist who has made his fortune skirting Texas laws to operate in New Mexico, a state that has no common-sense regulations or restrictions on abortions,” Martinez told LifeSiteNews. “You can only wonder whether these candidates will have New Mexicans' best interest at heart or protecting late-term abortion, if they are to get elected.”

The other Democratic candidates who have received Boyd’s help were Joanne Ferrary, Teresa Smith de Cherif, Stephanie Garcia Richard, and Kenny Martinez.

The pro-life movement got a late-term abortion ban put on a referendum ballot last year in Albuquerque but lost by a 55-percent to 45-percent margin. Martinez told LifeSiteNews, “Planned Parenthood spent nearly $1 million on the election, a lot of it to convince people that all abortions would be banned, not just those older than 20 weeks.” Also unhelpful was a wordy ballot question that left many pro-life voters voting the wrong way by mistake.

That result has had several negative impacts, she believes: first, the news media won’t report pro-life news, believing it a dead issue, and haven’t covered her information on Boyd’s political donations. “You are the first too follow up on the release,” she told LifeSiteNews. Second, Democrats may be “emboldened to believe that accepting donations from late-term abortionists is acceptable. And if any Republican candidates are pro-life, they are the opposite of emboldened and are keeping quiet about it.”

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“National polling shows a majority of Americans want a ban on late-term abortions,” said Martinez (for example, a Huffington Post/YouGovt survey last year showed 59 percent for a ban, 30 percent against). “Without all the money the other side has to spend, we believe that would be how New Mexicans feel too.”

She added that Boyd flies into his Albuquerque abortuary from Dallas, Texas, because that state has enacted increasingly restrictive legislation, while New Mexico has none at all. Martinez herself does sidewalk counselling outside his clinic, so she “can attest that at least a quarter of the licence plates in the parking lot at the Southwestern Women’s Options Center are from Texas.”

The Democratic majority in the New Mexican House of Representatives makes sure pro-life measures get lost in committee and never make it the House floor for open debate, said Martinez. “If we get Republicans in the majority, life issues will get a higher profile. Across the U.S., it has been the Republicans who have passed laws restricting abortion.” Some districts have only 2,000-3,000 voters, so Martinez believes a shift in a few votes could prove decisive.

Boyd is 77 years old and reportedly has been doing abortions since before they were legalized. After the Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 legalized abortion, Boyd opened Texas’s first legal abortion facility and quickly set up a branch operation in Albuquerque. A onetime Baptist minister, he has worked with organizations such as the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice that offer a patina of sanctity to his grisly business.