{"id":293172,"date":"2023-06-17T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293172"},"modified":"2023-06-16T17:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:28:37","slug":"billionaire-abortion-donor-empire-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/billionaire-abortion-donor-empire-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire abortion donor hands massive empire to &#8216;more political&#8217; son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Billionaire George Soros, 92, announced that he is handing over control of his multi-billion-dollar empire to his 37-year-old son Alex \u2014 who warned that he&#8217;s even &#8220;more political&#8221; than his father.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/george-soros-heir-son-alexander-soros-e3c4ca13?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint interview<\/a> with the Wall Street Journal, the duo announced the news. Alex Soros said he plans to use the family&#8217;s billions to promote left-leaning causes, singling out abortion specifically. \u201cI\u2019m more political,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s non-profit, Open Society Foundations (OSF), elected Alex as its chairman in December, and he is also now on the investment committee overseeing Soros Fund Management, the firm managing money for both OSF and the Soros family. A Soros spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that most of the $25 billion the firm handles will be directed towards OSF in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/11\/george-soros-hands-empire-control-son-alex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">further noted<\/a> that Alex Soros seems to be less interested in hedge fund trading as his father has been, but is instead more interested in promoting political causes. In his Wall Street Journal interview, Alex noted he is particularly passionate about voting&#8230; and abortion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/target-petition\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=lan_website&amp;utm_content=target_petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-292702\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Target petition\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though Alex Soros may be even more radical than his father, George Soros has been a hardcore supporter of abortion in his own right. OSF has been a longtime donor to the abortion industry, giving millions of dollars in grants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=NARAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NARAL<\/a>, and <em>tens<\/em> of millions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=Planned+Parenthood+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Parenthood<\/a>. OSF has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaroleNovielli\/status\/1307037087775027206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given money<\/a> to groups like the Center for Reproductive Rights, Medical Students for Choice, the Abortion Access Project, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Soros also <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tangled-web-money-deception-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personally invested<\/a> in the abortion pill regimen, giving money to Danco Laboratories and its non-profit partner, the Population Council, to have mifepristone developed. The Population Council is a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-council-founded-eugenicists-promoting-abortion-turns-65\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eugenics-based<\/a> organization, and was instrumental in bringing chemical abortions to the United States. Soros further gave money to the University of California (UC) to conduct clinical trials for chemical abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Another group funded by OSF is the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), which recently went <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/group-funded-george-soros-attack-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the attack<\/a> against pregnancy resource centers (PRCs), calling them &#8220;fake abortion clinics&#8221; which &#8220;target&#8221; low-income women. Additionally, Soros gave <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/billionaire-soros-millions-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$246 million<\/a> to 100 partners of the pro-abortion Women&#8217;s March, and he has even worked to promote abortion in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/soros-agenda-make-ireland-pro-abortion-still-raising-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>George Soros was already a pro-abortion extremist; if his son is even <em>more<\/em> radical, then with billions of dollars at his disposal, his money is likely to end even more innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire George Soros, 92, announced that he is handing over control of his multi-billion-dollar empire to his 37-year-old son Alex \u2014 who warned that he&#8217;s even &#8220;more political&#8221; than his father. In a joint interview with the Wall Street Journal, the duo announced the news. Alex Soros said he plans to use the family&#8217;s billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":293250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Billionaire abortion donor hands massive empire to &#039;more political&#039; son<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If Soros&#039; son is even more radical, then with billions of dollars at his disposal, his money is likely to end even more innocent lives.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/billionaire-abortion-donor-empire-son\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Billionaire abortion donor hands massive empire to &#039;more political&#039; 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