While Americans may be aware of Buffett's liberalism and his support of abortion, very few knew that his money financed the training of doctors to kill the unborn.

One of the big stories this summer is the generous donation of billions of dollars to charity by one of the world's richest men. As a result, he's received the praise of practically the entire news media.

What the news media neglected to report is that the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which was created by multi-billionaire businessman Warren Buffett in honor of his deceased spouse, is donating upwards of $3 billion to pro-abortion groups, not only for political campaigns but for the training of physicians on how to end the lives of unborn babies.  Buffett thus far has not explained how aborting unborn children is charitable.

During a segment on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, a letter written by Buffett revealed that he would give stock to the foundation and he supports reproductive health and rights, family planning and college scholarship programs.

Warren Buffett's donation is in addition to the $2.5 billion provided to the foundation in the will of Susan Thompson Buffett, who died in 2004.

But this is not the first time Buffett has supported abortion. In the past, the Buffetts' philanthropic efforts included reportedly contributing to the Center for Reproductive Rights in order to assist it in its court battle to overturn Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion; the ban was overturned in 2001 thanks in large part to Buffett.

Their foundation also has given money to Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights, and other pro-abortion groups. In addition, they donated millions of dollars to help mifepristone, which causes a medical abortion when taken in conjunction with the drug misoprostol, gain FDA approval.

Many observers had expected Buffett to give most of his money to the Buffett Foundation, but he disclosed that his biggest donation will be stock valued at $30.7 billion to the Bill Gates foundation for so-called international health issues. Gates himself has donated millions of dollars to organizations pushing for even greater freedom to terminate the lives of unborn babies.

What amazes many observers is the almost total lack of news coverage of where Buffett's billions would go. The mainstream news media, for the most part, reported that his billions of dollars would go to charitable organizations and international health groups.

During the NPR Morning Edition segment, Ellen Chesler, author of Women of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, said that the Buffett Foundation's donations have trained a new generation of physicians to perform abortions "at a time when the first pioneering generation of doctors who did it out of a sense of moral obligation is retiring and not being replaced."

Chesler said that in addition to funding for research and training, the Buffett Foundation provided funding for policy efforts to bolster abortion-rights supporters' efforts in the US political debate, "which was being heavily influenced by huge amounts of money being poured into conservative institutions that were opposing abortion rights and family planning."

While Americans may be aware of Buffett's liberalism and his support of abortion, very few knew that his money financed the training of doctors to kill the unborn. While he's been critical of how President Bush is fighting the war on terrorism and once complained about the "needless loss of American and Iraqi lives," Buffett apparently feels no remorse over helping to needlessly kill millions of unborn children not only in the United States but throughout the world.