By Kevin J. Jones, CNA Staff - Open Society Foundations and its aligned groups have funded efforts to legalize abortion in Ireland, Poland, Mexico and other traditionally Catholic countries. The Soros network has also funded efforts to change the political priorities of American Catholics and to pass strongly pro-abortion legislation, such as a Michigan ballot measure to declare abortion a constitutional right... The foundations’ founder George Soros... has claimed success in undermining South African apartheid and in liberalizing his home country of Hungary and the Soviet Union itself.