Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been quietly funneling
substantial amounts of money into a donor based community foundation
called Silicon Valley Community Foundation located in Mountain View,
California. The donations he and his wife Priscilla made to the
organization in 2012 and 2013 have been significant.In 2012, the Zuckerbergs bequeathed the group with 19 million shares of
Facebook stock. The following year, they granted the same foundation
another 18 million shares of stock. The most recent donation was worth
nearly one billion dollars. Among the groups supported by Silicon Valley
Community Foundation is Planned Parenthood.
For its part, Planned Parenthood has been at the center of a firestorm
of criticism after video was leaked of the group discussing the transfer
of baby tissue from abortions. While it has likely been known that the
fetal tissue and flesh has been harvested for a variety of scientific
purposes, the public has reacted strongly against the candor with which
Planned Parenthood employees discuss the matter. This has led the Republican cabal to
seek to withdraw funding from the group.
That said, Planned Parenthood says that only 3% of its activities
involve abortions. In actuality, they perform other preventative
procedures such as mammograms and distributing birth control devices to
women. Abortion rights supporters point out to these activities to
minimize the sting of the Planned Parenthood fetal tissue videos. As for
the Zuckerbergs, they are actually going to have a baby. The left views
Mark Zuckerberg as a hero for championing illegal immigration, Planned
Parenthood, and part-time work for corporate America.
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