“This unlawful seven-figure payout to an anti-abortion extremist is all the proof the Senate should need that the so-called anti-weaponization slush fund is far from dead,” Katie O’Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, told Jezebel in a statement. ‘If the Trump administration were truly serious about cancelling the slush fund, it would immediately retract this seven-figure payment to a convicted criminal.”