{"id":231916,"date":"2020-10-02T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231916"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:02:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:02:01","slug":"abortion-industry-financial-conflicts-interest-politicians-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-financial-conflicts-interest-politicians-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The abortion industry’s conflicts of interest should concern politicians and media as much as in other industries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, pro-abortion Senator Elizabeth Warren noted in a Congressional hearing on the COVID-19 vaccine that financial conflicts of interest in the pharmaceutical industry are “a real problem,” stating<\/a>, “If federal officials stand to gain financially from certain COVID vaccines, and not from others, then Americans might reasonably worry that the vaccine was pushed for personal profit and not because it was best for our health.” She went on to state that “… [f]inancial conflicts are a real problem in the drug and vaccine development process.”<\/p>\n

Financial conflicts of interest should always be pointed out, but when it comes to abortion, this rarely happens.\u00a0The abortion industry is constantly claiming that the abortion pill is safe \u2014 so safe<\/a> that it doesn’t need any FDA safeguards<\/a>, and should even be sold over-the-counter<\/a>. But these claims are often made by people with potential financial conflicts of interest who could be motivated by profit rather than actual safety, and pro-abortion politicians and the media fail to investigate.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the early 1990\u2019s, Congress summoned<\/a>\u00a0tobacco industry executives to answer claims surrounding the safety of nicotine after RJ Reynolds and others commissioned and financed studies to convince the public that smoking was not dangerous. An expert in a video<\/a> from\u00a0Stanford Medicine states,\u00a0\u201cThey used pseudoscience… and very often they quoted scientific studies that were completely invalid. Often, they were paid for by the industry to make a specific point rather than to ask a question. These were very simplistically put out as scientific findings about the safety of their tobacco product.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it is possible for conflicts of interest to exist within the tobacco and vaccine industries as has been claimed, surely the same is possible with the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

The abortion pill has long been shrouded in\u00a0secrecy<\/a>, yet what we do know is that there is a great deal of money to be made from the drug, with\u00a0the industry estimated<\/a> to gross nearly $200 million annually in abortion pill sales\u00a0\u2014 twice as much money as initially\u00a0projected<\/a>. Planned Parenthood alone has taken in approximately half of those sales.\u00a0Live Action News previously exposed the ties<\/a> between study funders\/researchers to organizations funded by abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories or its investors. (The Buffett<\/a> and Packard<\/a>\u00a0Foundations along with billionaire George Soros<\/a>‘ Open Society Foundations were original investors<\/a> in Danco.)<\/p>\n

It was the eugenics-founded<\/a> Population Council that brought<\/a> the abortion pill into the U.S. and set up<\/a> Danco, and the Council oversaw clinical trials of the abortion pill as well, setting up a system through which it would\u00a0receive<\/a>\u00a0royalties from its sales. The\u00a0Population Council is funded<\/a>\u00a0by the same billionaire pro-abortion philanthropists who seeded Danco (Buffett<\/a>, Packard<\/a>, and\u00a0others<\/a>\u00a0listed below):<\/p>\n