Posted on 07/21/2010 5:15:45 AM PDT by 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.”
Trying to normalize butchery. And from the MSM, nothing but the sound of crickets......
Thank you for posting.
Since most abortions are performed on minority babies, dare I say it?
Buffet is a Racist who wants to control the minority population.
That’s right, I said it.
“And yet Buffett has, in the words of his biographer, “’A Malthusian dread that overpopulation (will) aggravate problems in all other areas—such as food, housing, even human survival.’”
....I sold my BRK shares in 2002 so I no longer follow the company closely...but it seems to me that Buffett has been attacked at the annual shareholder’s meeting over his aggressive pro abortion funding.
Hmm. Both Buffett and Gates are elites. I guess the elites would prefer to "decrease the surplus population" to paraphrase Dickens.
It is the standard Learjet Liberal viewpoint. Not that you’d get them to admit it publicly, of course.
He's just another Leftie nut who thinks he knows best for everyone else.
He divorced his wife, moved out of the house he'd famously lived in since his youth and moved to Nutsville, USA (San Francisco).
Sad devolution.
“Since most abortions are performed on minority babies, dare I say it?”
Are you sure about that?
Buffet is a Marxist. He should love minority future voters.
Whoever said Marxism (or racism) was logical?
Planned Parenthood was formed by Margaret Sanger with the expressed intent of controlling the population of the undesirables, i.e., those of color.
She was a militant racist. But since her work is useful to the Left, the facts about her and her motives have not been fed to the masses by their handlers in the media.
Not a suprize. A bunch of billionaires got together and decided the number 1 problem in the world which they intended to try to solve was overpopulation.
The guests included Soros, Buffet, Gates, and Oprah, can’t remember the others.
You are absolutely right. And I also understand that the NAACP supports abortion.
Yes, as I read this article, I kept thinking about Sanger, which is what motivated my response. Democrats have demonstrated racism with their positions on social issues for decades now. Funny how no one ever sees it. Especially the minorities.
“Whoever said Marxism (or racism) was logical?”
Well, I was mostly referring to the percent of black v white abortions.
For blacks, a baby is more welfare.
A white is more then twice as likely to have an abortion.
“Buffet is a Racist who wants to control the minority population.”
second that emotion.........
How can these people be so passionate about butchering babies?
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