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A pair of billionaire brothers is quietly funding the assault on abortion rights in the United States, and, no, it’s not the Kochs! (Though they also give lots of money to groups and politicians that oppose reproductive freedom.) Dan and Farris Wilks made billions in masonry and fracking, and are now funneling tens of millions into antiabortion organizations and crisis pregnancy centers.

As Joan Shipps at Inside Philanthropy pointed out on Tuesday, Farris Wilks gave Media Revolution Ministries, which is also called Online for Life, $2.2 million in recent years. To put that kind of cash infusion into perspective, the group’s entire budget is $2.4 million. Focus on the Family received a cool $1.4. Heartbeat International, a network of crisis pregnancy centers, got nearly $200,000.

For a refresher on what crisis pregnancy centers actually do, here are a few testimonials from women who have mistakenly gone to these centers seeking reproductive health services (via ExposingFakeClinics, a Tumblr collecting the stories of women who have been lied to by anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers):
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