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In an essay in his 1976 collection, “Mortal Lessons,” the physician, Richard Selzer, describes a strange suburban scene. People go outside in the morning in his neighborhood, after the garbage trucks have passed, and find “a foreignness upon the pavement,” a softness underfoot.
Looking down, Dr Selzer first thinks he sees oversize baby birds, then rubber baby dolls, until the realization comes that the street is littered with the tiny, naked, all-too-human bodies of aborted fetuses.
Later, the local hospital director speaks to Dr Selzer, trying to impose order on the grisly scene. It was an accident, ofcourse: The tiny corpses were accidentally “mixed up with the other debris” instead of being incinerated or interred. “It is not an everyday occurrence. Once in a lifetime, he says.”
And Dr Selzer tries to nod along: “Now you see. It is orderly. It is sensible. The world is not mad. This is still a civilized society."
“But just this once, you know it isn’t. You saw, and you know.”
But the reluctance to look closely doesn’t change the truth of what there is to see. Those were dead human beings on Richard Selzer’s street 40 years ago, and these are dead human beings being discussed on video today:
Human beings that the nice, idealistic medical personnel at Planned Parenthood have spent their careers crushing, evacuating, and carving up for parts.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civiland/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights).
Possibly full investigations crentering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a "pattern" (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the "pattern" of racketeering activity.
Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
If they defunded PP, they’d lose a campaign issue and we can’t have that now, can we!
Reprinted with permission from NewsBusters.
July 31, 2015 (NewsBusters) -- In response to a series of incriminating under-cover videos from The Center for Medical Progress about the major abortion provider, organizations have been cutting ties -- or denying ties -- to Planned Parenthood. But where nonprofits are concerned, tax records keep the story straight. Between 2010 and 2013, no fewer than 966 individual organizations donated to Planned Parenthood. Of those, 31 gave more than $1 million each during those four years, totaling $374,199,059. The seven highest donors made up $324.8 million of that.
These largest Planned Parenthood donors include Warren Buffett, George Soros, Bill Gates, and others. A summary of the top seven funders follows.
<><><>>The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation -- $230,915,706---Warren Buffett’s Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation is by far the largest donor to Planned Parenthood in America. The President and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway gave a total of $231 million to Planned Parenthood between 2010 and 2013. That’s over ten times as much as the next largest donor. What’s more, Buffett’s contributions comprised over one fourth of Planned Parenthood’s private donations in 2013.
Buffett has always been tight-lipped about his abortion support and channels most of the money through the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after Buffett’s late wife, who was a strong supporter of abortion. The Foundation’s staff has ties to Planned Parenthood as well. Tracy Weitz, the Director of Domestic Programs at the Foundation, served as the manager of a San Francisco based Planned Parenthood for six years.
<><><>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- $22,827,000 ---The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has a long history of funding Planned Parenthood. Grant records starting in 2001 show millions of dollars in donations to Planned Parenthood’s “Population” program. In the four years from 2010 to 2013, the Hewlett Foundation gave $22.8 million to Planned Parenthood. The Planned Parenthood support is part of Hewlett’s larger Global Development and Population Program, which claims to “expand women’s choices about whether to have children.”
Hewlett is one of the core organizing groups for the 2015 International Conference on Family Planning. In 2013, Hewlett was listed as a Core Donor and in 2011 as a Sponsor. The conference promotes population control through abortion and contraception. Planned Parenthood, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation have also been part of each conference’s International Steering Committee since 2009.
In mid 2014, Hewlett Packard hired Christine Clark, a previous Planned Parenthood employee, as a Program Officer in the Global Development and Population Program.
<><><>Open Society Institute -- $18,350,000 ----Liberal billionaire George Soros is the third largest donor to Planned Parenthood. His Open Society Institute gave $18.4 million to the abortion giant. In 2011 alone, Open Society pledged to give Planned Parenthood $20 million over a four-year period. The grant was specifically to build centers in the “south and southeast regions” of the U.S. There are staff connections between Open Society Foundations and Planned Parenthood as well. David Berry, the Senior Communications Officer at Open Society, and Magda Ali, an Advisory Board Member were both previously employed by Planned Parenthood. Eric Ferrero, the current Vice President of Communications at Planned Parenthood, was previously employed as the Deputy Director of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations.
<><><> The David and Lucile Packard Foundation -- $14,691,659 --- Planned Parenthood’s “Population and Reproductive Health” program is near and dear to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Of the $14.7 million they gave between 2010 and 2013, nearly all went to that single program. Since 2013, The Packard Foundation has added another $1.5 million in donations to Planned Parenthood - bringing their total financial support to $16.2 million since 2010. The Packard Foundation’s own Population and Reproductive Health program seeks to “stabilize population growth,” among other things. Subprograms within that program include promoting abortions in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.
Packard has also partnered with Planned Parenthood in the International Conference on Family Planning. Previous Planned Parenthood employees now working at the Packard Foundation include Lisa Dacey, Program Operations Manager for the Population and Reproductive Health program; and Felicia Madsen, Communications Director.
<><> Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- $14,521,748 --- In December 2014, Melinda Gates attempted to argue that her foundation only supported the contraception element of Planned Parenthood - not the abortion side. Unfortunately for her argument, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the fifth largest Planned Parenthood donor between 2010 and 2013 -- giving over $14.5 million. Abortion’s biggest funder -- Warren Buffett -- is also a Gates Foundation trustee, and helps “shape and develop strategies” for the Foundation. Buffett is also a large contributor to the Gates Foundation.The Foundation has also been heavily involved in supporting and sponsoring each International Conference on Family Planning.
Like the other major Planned Parenthood donors, The Gates Foundation has also hired previous Planned Parenthood employees. A non-exhaustive list includes Clarissa Brundage, Associate Program Officer for Family Planning; Emily Lockwood, Program Officer; Mariah Richardson, Associate Program Officer for Global Policy & Advocacy; and Meg DeRonghe, Senior Program Officer for Global Policy & Advocacy. Laura Tolosa-Leiva, Program Assistant, is so on the Board of Advocates for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands.
<><><>Ford Foundation -- $13,486,250--- The liberal Ford Foundation (not associated with Ford Motors) has one of the most direct and strong connections to Planned Parenthood. Not only did the Ford Foundation given $13.5 million to Planned Parenthood between 2010 and 2013, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s own president, Cecile Richards, is on the Ford Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
Similar to the other organizations who fund Planned Parenthood, The Ford Foundation has its own Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Justice program which promotes the idea that “sexuality and the right to reproductive health are fundamental to the human experience.” Since 2013, the Ford Foundation has donated another $1.4 million dollars -- bringing their total Planned Parenthood support to $14.9 million.
<><><>Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program -- $10,031,210--- The last group which gave over $10 million is the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program. Unlike the six other largest donors, Vanguard is a donor-driven fund, meaning that individual donors -- not Vanguard -- chose Planned Parenthood as the recipient of their money. Donors who give to Planned Parenthood through Vanguard have the option of giving anonymously, therefore the actual sources of the $10 million Planned Parenthood donations are impossible to find.
Together, these top seven funders gave Planned Parenthood a total of $324.8 million between 2010 and 2013.
The Huber Foundation $6,200,000
The Educational Foundation of America $3,478,800
The JPB Foundation $3,323,993
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $2,900,000
Dyson Foundation $2,463,000
George D. Smith Fund, Inc. $2,200,000
Houston Endowment Inc. $2,200,000
The Grove Foundation $2,164,500
The Holland Foundation $2,055,000
James and Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation $1,985,000
Tulsa Community Foundation $1,951,296
Peierls Foundation $1,848,600
The Perot Foundation $1,780,000
Boston Foundation, Inc. $1,779,300
The California Wellness Foundation $1,550,000
The Minneapolis Foundation $1,509,142
The New York Community Trust $1,456,450
The Offield Family Foundation $1,350,000
F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. $1,325,000
Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation $1,316,676
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation $1,200,000
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc. $1,140,000
Weingart Foundation $1,132,600
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation $1,066,129
Reprinted with permission from NewsBusters.
My Senator Rubio is not listed as far as I can see.
I am so sick of the ignorant voters and the media in this country. A group kills babies and then sells body parts and there is hardly a mention from people. Most people I talked to in the last few days have had no idea about it and when I mention it they reply.” Well it sounds bad , but are you sure because the news I just watched this morning never mentioned it.”
Just so sick of this crap.
Wormwood can’t come soon enough...
Interesting list of million dollar donors supporting a racist organization. 78% of their clinics are in black communities.
Interesting list of million dollar donors supporting a racist organization. 78% of their clinics are in black communities.
It likely went down like this:
KIRK: Before I vote, please find out where The Combine stands on this. What did Durbin vote?
AIDE: Durbin said “No” therefore The Combine wants you to vote “No”.
KIRK: OK then! Record my vote as “No”. Oh, and bring me a few young boys and a hooker, please.
FIFTH video [from David Daleiden] is on its way! From Twitter:
Stand by for our fifth #PPSellsBabyParts video which we will be posting in ~1hr. #DefundPP
https://twitter.com/CtrMedProgress/status/628546512394539008
Getting control of the Senate really did a hell of a lot of good.
It’s the same black vote that screams: “Black Lives Matter”...
YEP. 1,000
We really need a theme song at this point.
No actually we need two marble statues. One of each of us placed outside the doors of the Supreme Court. That way all who enter could gaze upon our prophetic visages and say to themselves “Are we doing something do obvious that Steve and Normie could see it coming?”
Amen to that!
: )
The 12 & 14 noobs played into to the stupidity of DC protocol in re-seating the two idiots currently leading the houses. Perhaps the next round will be smarter about the foolishness of DC inbreeding.
I agree with your sense of the GOP-Enough’s vindictive nature. I will happily contribute to its political death.
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