{"id":302568,"date":"2023-12-01T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=302568"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:14:50","slug":"abortion-philanthropist-charles-munger-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-philanthropist-charles-munger-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion philanthropist Charles Munger, ‘sidekick’ to Warren Buffett, dead at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Planned Parenthood financier Charles Munger died on November 28, 2023, at age 99, after “spending more than four decades as [Warren] Buffett’s second-in-command and foil atop Berkshire Hathaway Inc.,” according to Reuters<\/a>. The two men met in Omaha in 1959.<\/p>\n

Like Buffett, Charles Munger (or “Charlie,” as he was often called) was also an abortion philanthropist,<\/a>\u00a0who served on Planned Parenthood’s board and even helped Buffett create<\/a> a \u2018church\u2019 to help women get illegal abortions.<\/p>\n

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Charles Munger<\/p><\/div>\n

Who was Charles Munger?<\/strong><\/p>\n

InsidePhilanthropy.com previously noted<\/a> how Munger “worked in real estate for several years before starting a successful investment firm that eventually caught the eye of Warren Buffett, who brought him into Berkshire Hathaway.” There, he eventually became the company vice chairman. Buffett once credited<\/a> Munger as one of his top three investment influencers.<\/p>\n

Munger was described<\/a> by Forbes as “Buffett\u2019s sidekick” and Berkshire’s “largest shareholder, with 1.8% of the stock.”<\/p>\n

“[F]ew people realize that for more than 30 years Buffett has had a not so-silent partner who is as much the creator of the Berkshire Hathaway investment philosophy as is the master himself,” Forbes wrote.<\/p>\n

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Warren Buffett and Charles Munger<\/p><\/div>\n

Munger and Abortion ‘Rights’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Action News previously<\/a> documented that Warren Buffett\u2019s pro-abortion activism can largely be attributed to Munger.<\/p>\n

“Munger…staunchly supported abortion rights, with far reaching consequences,” Economist.com<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

“It was emotionally hard for me to become pro-choice because I do have reverence for human life,” Munger once stated, according to Janet Lowe in her book “Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charles Munger.” He added, “but when I thought through the consequences, I found it necessary to overrule that part of my nature.”<\/p>\n

Munger agreed with Buffett “on population control and abortion rights,” Forbes wrote<\/a> in 2014. In 1969, Munger “convinced Buffett to join him in paying the legal defense of Dr. Leon Belous, who was convicted of referring a woman to an illegal abortionist.<\/p>\n

Munger “persuaded many top lawyers to sign a friend-of-the-court brief, and the doctor was acquitted in a reversal of California\u2019s anti-abortion law. This case was one of the building blocks for the Roe v. Wade case three years later,” stated Economist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forbes wrote:<\/p>\n

During the 1960s Munger helped California women obtain abortions in Mexico by paying for their trips. Later he was a driving force in helping persuade the California Supreme Court to make the first decision overturning, on constitutional grounds, a law prohibiting abortions. <\/em><\/p>\n

Recalls Buffett: ‘Charlie took over the case. He solicited the deans of leading medical and law schools to enter amicus briefs. Charlie did all the work on it night and day, even writing some of the briefs himself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Munger also agreed with Buffett on population control.<\/p>\n

According to biographer Lowe, “In 1990, Munger fired off a stinging letter to Fortune, claiming that a review of Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s book, The Population Explosion, had missed the point. The book reviewer, said Munger, ‘argues that human welfare will continue to improve as a result of desirable population growth accompanied by even faster technological development. Alas, it is not so simple. In a finite world system, subject to the laws of physics, two variables (population and per capita welfare) can’t both be maximized forever.'”<\/p>\n

In 1994, Lowe cited Buffett as declaring that the world would have far fewer problems “if you could make every child born in this country and this world a wanted child … the closest thing we have to that is Planned Parenthood. Until women have that right to determine their reproductive destiny, we’re in an unequal society.”<\/p>\n