Warren Buffett has given $1.2 billion to abortion groups
By Dan Gainor
Published May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014, marks one year since
Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder
“in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with
scissors at his grimy, ‘house of horrors’ clinic,” according to the Associated
Press. Gosnell instantly became the face of abortion in the prolife community.
But there’s another, more
recognizable face pushing abortion in the U.S. – liberal billionaire Warren Buffett.
The so-called “Oracle of Omaha” has donated more than $1.2 billion to abortion
organizations from 2001 to 2012.
That’s equal to the cost of
roughly 2.7 million first-trimester abortions – more than twice the number of
abortions that occur in an entire year in the United States. Unlike Gosnell,
however, everything Buffett has done has been entirely legal. But Buffett does
share something else in common with the abortionist. Both their stories have
been largely unreported.
Imagine the equivalent of the
lives of 2.7 million children snuffed out to serve the whims of the third
richest man in the world. Most people would say that’s a story, most likely
several.
Imagine the equivalent of the
lives of 2.7 million children snuffed out to serve the whims of the third
richest man in the world. Most people would say that’s a story, most likely
several.
Oh no, supporters will cry. Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other similar groups do more
than just abortions. And Buffett does more than fund the abortion industry. But
that is the core of his agenda, just as it is theirs.
Buffett’s own charity, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, is
named after his first wife who was an abortion supporter. Its domestic
operation is led by pro-abortion activist Tracy Weitz, Ph.D., MPA. Weitz has
worked at Planned Parenthood, The Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
and once defined abortion as “a moral action undertaken by moral agents.”
None of that is obvious from the
charity’s website. It includes information on college scholarships and the
“Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award.” Neither that award, for “Outstanding Omaha Public School Teachers (K –12),” nor the
scholarships even hint at the darker direction of the massive charity.
The site itself seems deliberately
insular. Copyrights on the pages read “2008” and the charity makes it clear:
“The Buffett Foundation responds to questions about College Scholarships and
the Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award only. We will not respond to any
other inquiries.”
No wonder. They wouldn’t want to
damage Warren Buffett’s incredible
media profile by telling the nearly half of America that is prolife how he
spends some of his billions. Lord knows the American media would never do that.
Since 2001, there has only been
one tangential mention of Buffett’s support for abortion on the broadcast TV
network morning and evening news shows. It wasn’t even really about Buffett. It
was the NBC “Nightly News” obituary
for his wife and it included her support for Planned Parenthood. That’s out of
at least 545 appearances or mentions of the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and
CEO.
Nowhere did the media explain how
Buffett has given $289,811,421 to Planned Parenthood since 2001. Buffett was
never mentioned as a top donor when Live Action embarrassed Planned Parenthood
with two videos of staffers assisting a Live Action actor with a possible sex
selection abortion.
That wasn’t the only embarrassment
for the abortion provider. In early 2011, Live Action’s Lila Rose trained
investigators to pose as a pimp and a prostitute running a sex ring composed of
14- and 15-year-olds. Planned Parenthood workers were quite willing to help
provide underage abortions.
No mention of Buffett’s billions
then either.
Instead we get grandfatherly
Buffett, tax-hiking Buffett, investor Buffett. As a reliable liberal
businessman, journalists turn to him as a source for almost any commentary.
It’s easy to understand. If you
give $1,000 to a ballot initiative to defend traditional marriage, that’s
controversial. If you give $1.25 billion to promote abortion, journalists, who
are wildly pro-abortion, don’t dare
see any controversy.
But now the information is out
there. Watch as the supposedly “neutral” news media does its best to hide it.
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Susan A. Buffett
is the chair for the Susan Thompson
Buffett Foundation, the ONE Campaign, and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Note: Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Tom
Brokaw is an overseer for the International
Rescue Committee, and was an anchor for the NBC Nightly News.
Harold E. Ford Jr. is an overseer for
the International Rescue Committee, a
political commentator at MSNBC, and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Karen
Finney is a frequent commentator for MSNBC,
and a board member for the NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Urban Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Urban Institute (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank),
Media Matters, and People for the
American Way.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a contributor
for MoveOn.org, and is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society
Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the American Constitution Society, and the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Warren E. Buffett
is Susan A. Buffett & Howard G. Buffett’s father, a life
trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank), a trustee & major donor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and an adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the chairman for the Turner Foundation, and a member of Kappa Sigma.
Cecile Richards
was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation, and is the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Harold J. Daub Jr.
is a member of Kappa Sigma, and was
the mayor of Omaha (NE).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Ilyse
Hogue is a senior adviser at Media
Matters, the president of the NARAL
Pro-Choice America, and was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org.
Caroline
Fredrickson is the president of the American
Constitution Society, was the Washington
legislative director for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the general counsel for the NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Margery Tabankin
is the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation, and a director at People for the American Way.
America Votes is
a national partner with People for the
American Way.
Cecile Richards
was the founder & president for America
Votes, and is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Alec
Baldwin is director at People for
the American Way, and was the host of Up
Late With Alec Baldwin.
Up Late
With Alec Baldwin was an MSNBC program.
Karen
Finney is a frequent commentator for MSNBC,
and a board member for the NARAL
Pro-Choice America.
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