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Danco's efforts to win approval to market mifepristone were aided by a $10 million loan from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Los Altos philanthropy funded by the founder of electronics pioneer Hewlett-Packard Co.


The David & Lucille Packard Foundation

About the Foundation

David and Lucile Packard believed America to be the home of a unique type of organization dependent upon private funding and volunteer leadership. Together, universities, national institutions, community groups, youth agencies, family planning centers, and hospitals constitute a great American tradition that complements government efforts to focus on society's needs.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard (19121996), the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, and his wife, Lucile Salter Packard (1914 1987). Throughout their lives in business and philanthropy, the Packards sought to use private funds for the public good, giving back to a society which enabled them to prosper.

What We Fund

Guided by the business philosophy and values of our Founders, the Packard Foundation invests in and takes smart risks with innovative people and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth’s natural systems.

Core Grantmaking Programs
We focuses the majority of our grantmaking in three program areas:

Our Conservation and Science Program seeks to protect and restore our oceans, coasts, and atmosphere and to enable the creative pursuit of scientific research toward this goal.

Our Population Program seeks to slow the rate of growth of the world's population, to expand reproductive health options among the world's poor, and to support reproductive rights.

Our Children, Families, and Communities Program seeks to ensure opportunities for all children to reach their potential.

1 posted on 02/09/2006 10:14:06 AM PST by cgk
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To: 4lifeandliberty; AbsoluteGrace; afraidfortherepublic; Alamo-Girl; AlbionGirl; anniegetyourgun; ...

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

2 posted on 02/09/2006 10:16:13 AM PST by cgk (Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. - Ann Coulter)
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"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," said Carly Fiorina, (ex-)chief executive of the Hewlett-Packard Co.

Except the job of being a mother.

4 posted on 02/09/2006 10:22:16 AM PST by cgk (Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. - Ann Coulter)
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To: cgk

Deceptive headline. HP is not the same entity as the Packard Foundation. Bad form. Yes, HP has much to be ashamed of - but at least we fired Carly!


5 posted on 02/09/2006 10:23:22 AM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: cgk
We focuses the majority of our grantmaking...

I verified it's like that on their web page. Bad grammer, or at least poor proofreading, in addition to their lack of morality.

7 posted on 02/09/2006 10:41:47 AM PST by Menehune56
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To: cgk
This, by the way, is why I have a Xerox laser printer, a Canon inkjet printer, a Canon scanner, and won't look at HP or Compaq laptops. I've known this for a while now.
8 posted on 02/09/2006 10:47:09 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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RU-486: The ultimate legacy
The Washington Post learned additional specifics about foundation investment in RU-486. Buffett's foundation gave the Population Council at least $2 million in loans, interest free. The cash paid for clinical trials of the abortion pill. The Packard Foundation chipped in with a loan of $10 million, earmarked for approval and marketing of the drug.

The Post reported there's also a Planned Parenthood connection. Richard Hausknecht is Danco's medical director. Previously, he held a similar position at Planned Parenthood of New York City. Hausknecht still serves on a Planned Parenthood advisory board.


RU-486: DEATH AND PROFIT BY PRESCRIPTION
The history of RU-486, as outlined by Rachel Zimmerman in Tuesday's edition of The Wall Street Journal, is rather simple. Roussel Uclaf is the original manufacturer for the abortion pill. In the early 1980s, President George Bush banned its importation to the United States. In 1994, Roussel Uclaf awarded the U.S. patent rights to the Population Council. They were persuaded to do so by pro-death Democratic Party Presidential nominee Al Gore's boss, Bill Clinton. The Population Council, in turn, licensed the marketing, distribution and manufacturing of the drug to Danco. Now the FDA is three weeks away from approving RU-486's use in this country.

In addition to the Clinton Administration's support (without which RU-486 would still effectively be banned from the U.S.), the Population Council and Danco are backed by the foundations of Warren Buffet, George Soros, and the late David Packard. To date, Danco has collected more than $34 million to finance production (probably by a firm in China, whose national pro-abortion policy dictates that women have only one child).

Sarah Clark, director of the Packard Foundation's population program, spoke about the $10 million loan it gave to the project. "It's consistent with our strategy and foundation philosophy that American women should have the full range of options when it comes to their own reproductive health. We don't make loans to anything we don't believe in." Make no mistake, they believe in death for the unborn.



RU-486 (mifepristone) and Cytotecâ (misoprostol)
RU-486 is a man-made steroid in the form of a pill that acts against the natural process of a pregnancy. The FDA
approved it for general use on September 28, 2000.

How it works: An RU-486 abortion takes place in four visits to the doctor. During the first visit, the woman undergoes a pregnancy test, blood test, pelvic exam and often an ultrasound exam. RU-486 is only effective during the first forty-nine days after conception. At the second visit, the woman takes three RU-486 pills. This anti-progesterone prevents the endometrium (lining of the uterus) from providing progesterone to the [unborn child], which is necessary for its nourishment. Thus, the [unborn child] starves to death. At the third visit, the woman receives Cytotecâ, which induces cramping in order to expel the dead [child] from her body. The fourth visit occurs about a week later to ensure the abortion is complete and to monitor the woman’s bleeding. If the abortion is not successful (5-10 percent of all cases),24 the woman undergoes a surgical abortion.

Side effects and risk factors: Nausea; abdominal pain; vomiting; heavy and extended bleeding; heart attack; hemorrhage; impaired future fertility; harmful to any future children; significant blood loss; possible death (one woman in France has died from RU-486.)25 Long-term effects to a woman’s fertility and immune system are not known.

11 posted on 02/09/2006 10:54:59 AM PST by cgk (Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. - Ann Coulter)
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13 posted on 02/09/2006 1:18:45 PM PST by Coleus (IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
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To: cgk

OMG!!! A pill that prevents a cell from implanting!

Oh the humanity.

Nutcases.


16 posted on 02/09/2006 3:24:04 PM PST by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: cgk

BTTT!


20 posted on 02/09/2006 10:12:06 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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self ping


21 posted on 02/20/2006 6:19:20 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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