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Warren Buffett Gives $750 Million to Foundations Linked to Planned Parenthood

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 92-year-old investor donated 1&period;5 million Class B shares of his conglomerate to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation&comma; named for his first wife&period; He also gave 300&comma;000 Class B shares apiece to the three foundations run by his children&colon; the Sherwood Foundation&comma; the Howard G&period; Buffett Foundation&comma; and the NoVo Foundation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;influencewatch&period;org&sol;non-profit&sol;susan-thompson-buffett-foundation&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;is the largest funder of pro-abortion activism in the world and is supported by Buffett&period; The foundation was created in 1964 as the Buffett Foundation but was renamed in the early 2000s after his late wife&comma; Susan Thompson Buffett&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">According to&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;capitalresearch&period;org&sol;article&sol;warren-buffetts-foundation-has-poured-4-billion-into-pro-abortion-advocacy&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Capital Research<&sol;a>&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;From the start&comma; the foundation’s goal was population control—what a biographer has called Warren Buffett’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wsj&period;com&sol;articles&sol;SB115223979105400349" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">Malthusian dread<&sol;a>” of overpopulation among the world’s poor&period; &lpar;Before the 1973&nbsp&semi;Roe v&period; Wade&nbsp&semi;decision that legalized abortion in America&comma; Buffett and his business partner Charles Munger operated a fake church that helped women reach abortion clinics where it was legal&period;&rpar;&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Berkshire Hathaway owns more than 90 companies&comma; including GEICO insurance&comma; Kraft Heinz&comma; Dairy Queen&comma; Benjamin Moore&comma; Fruit of the Loom&comma; Duracell&comma; Pampered Chef&comma; and BNSF railroad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading" id&equals;"h-supporting-abortions-and-planned-parenthood">Supporting Abortions and Planned Parenthood<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">According to NewsBusters&comma; the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation contributed &dollar;76&comma;967&comma;256 to Planned Parenthood 2017-18&comma; which was enough to pay for over 81&comma;000 to 219&comma;000 first-term abortions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">From 2000 to 2018&comma; the Buffett Foundation poured&nbsp&semi;<a target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;influencewatch&period;org&sol;app&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;STBF-Grants-to-Abortion-Groups&period;xlsx" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"><strong>&dollar;4 billion<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;into groups that advocate for abortion on demand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Associated Press states&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation keeps a low profile&comma; but over the years&comma; it has been a major supporter of abortion rights&comma; making large gifts to Planned Parenthood and other groups&period; Buffett has not announced changes in his giving plans since the U&period;S&period; Supreme Court overturned&nbsp&semi;<em>Roe v&period; Wade<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;earlier this year&comma;” however&comma; Buffett has a reputation for donating quietly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Buffett’s donations also have been used to push unrestricted abortion on demand in countries all across the world&comma; fund unethical experiments involving abortion drugs and poor women in Africa&comma; promote do-it-yourself abortions&comma; and support other population control measures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Planned Parenthood aborted more than 383&comma;000 babies in abortions in 2020&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Some reports point to Buffett as trying to&nbsp&semi;<a target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;liveaction&period;org&sol;news&sol;bill-gates-warren-buffett-population-control&sol;" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">control the number of people<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;born worldwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading">Warren Buffett and Bill Gates<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are two of the world’s wealthiest individuals&period; Per Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires List&comma; Gates and Buffett have a net worth of &dollar;124 billion and &dollar;96 billion&comma; respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Buffett has been making annual donations to the same five charities every year since 2006&comma; when he unveiled a plan to give away his fortune over time&comma; with the Gates Foundation receiving the most significant donations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Wednesday’s donations mark the first time the 92-year-old has made a second major gift within the same year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">As stated on the Bill Gates Foundation’s website&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As a trustee from 2006 – 2021&comma; Warren Buffett worked along with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates to help shape our vision and develop strategies to address some of the world’s most challenging inequities&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Billionaire buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffett also teamed up to build a nuclear reactor on the site of a coal plant that’s being phased out in Wyoming&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Nuclear reactor design company TerraPower&comma; which Gates founded about 15 years ago&comma; and power company PacifiCorp&comma; which Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns&comma; are partners on the Natrium nuclear reactor pilot project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Buffett’s son&comma; Howard Graham&comma; born December 16&comma; 1954&comma; has been the Director of The Coca-Cola Company since 2010&period; Before that&comma; Howard was a short-lived farmer in Tekamah&comma; Nebraska&comma; before he became the VP and Assistant to the Chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Company&period; He has also led companies like The GSI Group&comma; Conagra Foods&comma; Agro Tech Foods Ltd&comma; and Berkshire Hathaway&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Howard also was the Chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Authority and Development Board from 1989 to 1991&period; He also served as a sheriff in Macon County&comma; Illinois&comma; and was sworn in on September 15&comma; 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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