Buffett Secretly Spending Millions on Abortion Med-School Scheme: NY Times

Lifesite News ^ | July 19, 2010 | Patrick B. Craine

[rhema]

Billionaire investing mogul Warren Buffett has been secretly backing a campaign to combat the decrease in doctors who are training as abortionists and to bring abortion into mainstream medicine, revealed the New York Times this week.

In her NYT magazine cover story, journalist Emily Bazelon describes how abortion “rights” activists are working to “recast doctors, changing them from a weak link of abortion to a strong one.”

The piece, entitled “The New Abortion Providers,” claims that abortionists and the pro-abort lobby are trying to dispel the image of the “greedy, butchering ‘abortionist’.” “The bold idea at the heart of this effort is to integrate abortion so that it’s a seamless part of health care for women — embraced rather than shunned,” writes Bazelon.

The strategy, she says, aims at moving abortuaries away from stand-alone facilities into hospitals and encourages family physicians to offer abortions within their practices.

She describes two training programs for abortionists that are central to this strategy. The first, called the “Family Planning Fellowship,” is a two-year post-residency program designed to further equip doctors for providing abortions and contraception. She says this fellowship is now being offered at 21 university campuses. The second is called the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program, which aims to supply medical schools with funds to train ob/gyn residents in providing abortions. So far, this program has funded 58 campuses in the U.S. and Canada.

Both programs are run out of the University of California at San Francisco, and both are directed by Uta Landy, the former director of the National Abortion Federation. Bazelon spoke with Jody Steinauer, the associate director of the Fellowship program, but she said that Landy declines all interviews out of fear that publicity would scare off potential universities, or their lone donor.

“The money for the Ryan and the Family Planning Fellowship comes from one foundation and from one family,” writes Bazelon. “The donor has chosen to remain anonymous, which helps to explain why there’s been so little publicity about the pro-choice strategy of bringing abortion into academic medicine. It has been covered by a veil of semisecrecy.”

But as the two training programs have grown, this anonymous donor has become more widely known, she says. “In the course of my reporting, two doctors who had not done the fellowship themselves, but who work in universities, volunteered to me that the money for the programs comes from the Buffett Foundation,” she wrote.

According to Bazelon, the Buffett Foundation’s tax records reveal that most of its spending is allocated to “abortion and contraception advocacy and research.” The Foundation has given tens of millions to Planned Parenthood and Ipas, as well as millions to other pro-abortion groups like Catholics for Choice. Buffett has pledged to give away 99% of his estimated $47 billion assets, with most of it going to the Gates Foundation, which is infamous for its avowed emphasis on population control.

Despite Buffett’s and the rest of the pro-abortion movement’s efforts to bring abortion into the mainstream of medicine, however, pro-life leaders insist that abortionists are by nature at the bottom rung of medicine, where debauched doctors end up when they are too incompetent for any other area.

“No one goes to medical school with the intent of working in a Planned Parenthood or some other abortion clinic,” said Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics Inc., last month, after an Ottawa abortionist was disciplined for his incompetence in treating 25 of his clients. “The wash-outs from the leftovers of medicine wind up working in these abortion clinics.”

[wheresmyusa]

Sorry, didn’t know that link had gone dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmzeYYWntxw

[mimaw]

Matthew 19:24

[sportutegrl]

It was bad enough when only lesbians and menopausal women were the ones publicly backing abortion. When a man gets involved, this is a whole new level of creepy to me. But, it reinforces what I have always believed: Pro abortionists don’t want the right to have an abortion for themselves, they simply don’t want YOU to have a baby.

[KingOfVagabonds]

This is surreal. These people are sick and twisted and have dangerous amounts of money to play with.

[Lorica]

“No one goes to medical school with the intent of working in a Planned Parenthood or some other abortion clinic,” said Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics Inc., last month, after an Ottawa abortionist was disciplined for his incompetence in treating 25 of his clients. “The wash-outs from the leftovers of medicine wind up working in these abortion clinics.”

[jim_trent]

Not many people here are aware that Warren Buffett’s wife (who died a few years ago) was long involved in population control (actually, population reduction). She set up a foundation before she died to carry on the work. I could not tell from this article if the foundation listed here was his, or was the one his wife set up. He has no control over that one.

Also not known by many people here, he separated from his wife many years before she died. However, they did not divorce. It was cheaper to give her as much money as she could spend rather than divorce her. She moved to California (I think it was San Fransisco) many years ago.

[momtothree]

How can these people be so passionate about butchering babies?

I think they have no soul or have sold it long ago. Think about how much good you could do if you had billions to give away? You could SAVE babies rather than killing them, educate people, help others in need. I wouldn’t want to meet my maker and have Him ask, “what did you do with all that money?” Their response would be what? I reduced the population.

[rhema]

All the more reason to energetically support candidates who'll work to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortuaries once they've been elected.

[Susan B. Anthony List] "Today a Rasmussen poll released in the Arkansas shows SBA List Candidate Fund endorsed John Boozman beating Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the general election, 60% to 29%! Similarly in Indiana, Rep. Brad Ellsworth—who betrayed his constituents by voting for health care reform that included abortion funding—is learning that votes do have consequences: Ellsworth is trailing Coats in the polls, 30% to 51%."

[rhema]

Funny you should mention it.

[Pro-choice journalist Jennifer Senior] "NARAL’s Nancy Keenan likes to say that abortion’s biggest defenders right now are a “menopausal militia”—a rueful, inspired little joke. These baby-boomers, whose young adulthoods were defined by the fight over the right to choose, will soon be numerically overtaken by a generation of twentysomethings who is more pro-life than any but our senior citizens. As GOP strategists Christopher Blunt and Fred Steeper have pointed out, this group came of age during the partial-birth debate and was the first to grow up with pictures of sonograms on their refrigerators.

"The Abortion Distortion"

[AliVeritas]

ping

Of special interest to Catholics as well re: CRS

http://slatts.blogspot.com/2010/01/catholic-relief-services-forms.html

[boop]

What is it with billionaires like Buffett and Gates eliminating babies of color?