Warren Buffett Walks Away From Wall Street — But Not From Butchering Unborn Babies

The Oracle of Omaha may be retiring from Berkshire Hathaway, but he won't give up his other title — the biggest funder of abortion in history.

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 ...