After six decades, Buffett is retiring from a legendary career that’s made him the most famous investor in the world. With just six years until his 100th birthday, we wish the Oracle of Omaha a peaceful retirement in his remaining twilight years.
Perhaps he can spend them pondering his less-known and less-celebrated legacy: Funneling more money into the abortion industry than perhaps anyone else in human history.
I’ve called Buffett the secret patron of Abortion Inc. for pumping perhaps $5.3 billion over two decades into abortion providers as well as the constellation of activist, lobbying, and policy groups insulating the baby-killing industry in Washington.
That’s a conservative estimate, by the way.
Or — in Buffett’s spirit of keeping philanthropy local — it’s also enough to abort all the people living in Nebraska, his home state, five times over.
$5.3 billion is chump change to a man worth $168 billion. But it’s enough to pay for 10 million abortions at $550 a pop, according to estimates from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute — about the populations of Portugal, Greece, or 10 U.S. states together.
That fact is all the more stunning given Buffett’s carefully cultivated image of a respectable, mild-mannered, coupon-cutting businessman. He lives in the same house he purchased in 1958 and drives an 11-year-old Cadillac: how radical could he really be?
“You mean you didn’t know Warren Buffett’s foundation has been funding abortion rights organizations?” NPR wrote facetiously in 2006. “Well, that’s just the way the Buffetts wanted it.”
The billionaire’s secret is masking his abortion funding as “philanthropy.” Since 2002, he’s poured a vast fortune into a set of foundations deeply involved in bankrolling abortion-on-demand groups — including Planned Parenthood — and the United Nations’ population control crusade in poor, non-white countries.
One of these you know: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 39 percent of whose revenues actually come from Buffett. Much of that wealth goes toward anti-human advocacy groups such as the Population Council, created in the 1950s to depopulate the Third World. (RELATED: America’s Abortion Blind Spot: How Liberals Convinced Americans to Ignore the Fetus)
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, however, does a much better job of hiding its radicalism. The group’s website advertises “college scholarships for Nebraska students” and “does not respond to other inquiries.”
This same “benign” education philanthropy has poured $76 million into Marie Stopes International (MSI), a far-left purveyor of abortions overseas for girls as young as 16 — some of them illegal. MSI, incidentally, is named for Britain’s version of Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who wrote love poetry to Adolf Hitler. (Really.) Virtually all of its clinics are based in African and Asian countries that restrict abortion or enshrine the right to life for the unborn in their national constitutions, such as Kenya.
In 2020, Kenyan police caught MSI abortionists dumping the decomposing corpses of 10 babies they’d illegally aborted in a dumpster. Police later arrested two unregistered medical practitioners for performing unlawful abortions in MSI’s Nairobi facility after the government kicked them out. (RELATED: Defunding USAID: Trump’s Biggest Gift to Pro-Lifers After Dobbs)
The Buffett Foundation was also one of the top donors to Gynuity Health Projects: A New York nonprofit that conducts horrifying experiments on women in Burkina Faso, a destitute West African country (GDP per person: $715). Gynuity provides mail-order abortifacients in the U.S. designed to induce a miscarriage in the first trimester; the drugs tested in Africa would extend that to the second trimester (28 weeks). Excessive bleeding is a common side effect, requiring large quantities of blood bags to stave off lethal hemorrhaging.
Is that “philanthropy,” the biblical love of one’s fellow man? Warren Buffett must think so, because he keeps funding groups that abort his fellow man using U.S. charity laws — and he’s been doing it for a long time.
Even before Roe v. Wade codified abortion “rights” in 1973, Buffett and his liberal Republican business partner, Charlie Munger, organized a fake church to arrange abortions in states where it was legal.
“I called Warren and asked him to help me establish our own church,” Munger explained in a 2003 interview. “That we did. For years this minister ran the thing. That was our contribution, trying to help so that society didn’t force women to give birth — to be held in a system [ecologist and overpopulation alarmist] Garrett Hardin called ‘mandatory motherhood.’”
Munger later folded the faux-church into the Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood, where he was chief financial officer.
Buffett’s biographer wrote that the Omaha billionaire shares Munger’s “Malthusian dread” of global overpopulation, so naturally wants to reduce it. So does his daughter, Susie: “[Population control] was what my father has always believed was the biggest and most important issue,” she told the Chronicle of Philanthropy in 1997, “so that will be the [foundation’s] focus.”
In the 1990s, that led the Buffett Foundation to finance the development of mifepristone pills to induce chemical abortions — killing the fetus and forcibly expelling it from the uterus.
Today, Planned Parenthood and others on the Left market mifepristone as an at-home, DIY abortion drug — a pill a day to make the baby go away — while downplaying the incredible risks to women’s health.
Chemical abortion has exploded in use in recent years — representing 63 percent of all abortions in 2023, up from just 31 percent in 2014, and almost certainly driving the increase in abortions nationwide from 2020 to 2023. Pro-abortion groups use it to continue their war on the unborn even after the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022. The Biden Food and Drug Administration (FDA) greenlit companies in 2023 to distribute mifepristone by mail, citing its supposedly strong safety record.
A recent bombshell report by my colleagues at the Foundation for the Restoration of America (FFROA) reveals that mifepristone abortion pills are 22 times more dangerous than the FDA admits, risking sepsis, infection, uterine rupture, hemorrhage, or even death. (RELATED: Abortion Drug Black Market Is Booming. Will Pam Bondi Intervene?)
For women who escape the most serious adverse events, fully 85 percent will experience nausea, fever, chills, vomiting, headaches, or diarrhea. But a little discomfort or the odd death is a small price to pay for ridding the world of excess babies. Right?
Warren Buffett is undoubtedly America’s most brilliant investor and deserves high marks on Wall Street. But he also deserves to rank among the most evil men America ever produced, using his God-given wealth to snuff out innocent lives on an unbelievable scale. (RELATED: Why Trump Should Act Against Abortion)
That’s the real Buffett legacy — and it’s written in blood.
Hayden Ludwig is the founder of Restoration News.
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