# Pro-Lifers and Pharmaceuticals
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 20, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262 "2001-02-20T22:27:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262/1 "2001-02-20T22:27:04Z")
I was told by a college professor that many pro-life organizations receive significant contributions from pharmaceutical companies, the idea being that criminalizing abortions would increases sales of contraceptives. I dismissed it as a sort of urban legend, but I’d still like to check on it. Are non-profit organizations required to disclose their corporate donors? If so, how would I go about following the money?
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### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262/2 "2001-02-20T22:43:30Z")
my company just filed our 990’s for last year, so they were handy to me. and I know that I actually found our 990’s from a couple of years ago listed on a web site (which I naturally cannot find now).
however, according to [This](http://www.equalitystate.org/ESPC%20Website%20Generic%20Pages/workprogramfolder/Non%20profit%20files/w22nonprofit.html),
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> Documents That These Organizations Must Disclose
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> These tax-exempt organizations must disclose their Form 990, including all schedules and attachments, that they have filed within the last three years. This includes Forms 990-EZ or 990-BL, however organizations need not disclose Form 990-T (which reports information about unrelated businesses a tax-exempt organization may operate). \*\*Organizations may withhold the portion of their Form 990 that discloses the names and addresses of contributors, \*\*however they must disclose, upon request, the portions of the return that show the amount of compensation they have paid to certain persons.
highlighting mine.
Doesn’t appear as if they are required to tell you. Of course, if there’s a tax expert around here, they may come in and show me up.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262/3 "2001-02-21T03:15:48Z")
Wouldn’t it depend? I mean, there are some like the Catholics who don’t believe in birth control either?
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### Author:  [@Trucido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucido)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-lifers-and-pharmaceuticals/55262/4 "2001-02-21T03:40:19Z")
I didn’t say it made complete sense. Catholics that serious about birth control wouldn’t go for an abortion anyway, though. I guess we’re just talking about the liberal and the irreligious who want to avoid a coathanger in a back alley…