Hi all -- I am posting this here because I would like some more info about this if any of you are PC consultants. I have my own home-based business (PartyLite) and wonder if this will create bad feelings towards home businesses in general. I am NOT asking for you to debate abortion vs. pro-life -- if you want to do that, fine, but don't say later that I asked for it. I will say that as for me, myself, and/or not limited to, I -- will no longer buy PC products (which means I must call now to cancel the order that was to go in next week - ugh!). If you are a PC consultant, or know someone who is, could you give me some more info about this news. (By the way, if you don't know, Citizen Magazine initiated this article -- it is run by the President and Founder of "Focus on the Family," Dr. James Dobson.) Whether or not you agree with Dr. Dobson, or FOTF, I just wanted everyone to know it is a legitimate source -- this info has also been confirmed and the PC ban supported by many Catholic-based organizations. So this is not something that was just made up on the spot. Thanks for any more insight that you can give to me about this, in advance! (Begin forwarded article....)
A project of the American Family Association
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Pampered Chef consultants quitting over abortion support
Dear Heidi,
A growing number of Christian, pro-life mothers are leaving
lucrative careers with a national kitchenware company because of the new
owner's support of abortion.
"The Pampered Chef" is one of the nation's largest and
fastest-growing kitchenware companies. Mostly stay-at-home moms who sell the
products from home have driven the company, founded in 1980 by professing
Christian and stay-at-home mother Doris Christopher. The company boasts more
than 67,000 "Kitchen Consultants" and sales of $700 million annually.
But now, according to Citizen magazine, many Christian mothers
are walking away from the company because Pampered Chef's new owner,
billionaire Warren Buffett, is a huge supporter of abortion. His Buffett
Foundation, using company profits, has donated tens of millions of dollars
to abortion-related causes.
Citizen reports that Buffett's conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway,
Inc. -- owners of such well-known names as Dairy Queen, See's Candy, and
Fruit of the Loom -- has funneled millions of dollars to the Foundation. The
Foundation, in turn, last year donated at least $11 million to pro-choice
and "reproductive-rights" groups.
Among those recipients are international abortion-provider
Planned Parenthood, the Population Council -- chief promoter of RU-486 in
the U.S. -- and International Projects Assistance Services. IPAS,
beneficiary of a five-year, $20 million commitment from the Foundation in
1999, is the principal manufacturer of the suction pumps used in abortions.
According to Business Week, that financial backing permitted IPAS to double
its capacity to produce and distribute "manual vacuum aspirators (MVAs)."
According to Citizen, the exodus of Pampered Chef distributors
who are pro-life is gaining steam. It says resignations of top-selling
distributors are catching the attention of company officials. Among those
who have decided to quit the company is Tammy Gillespie of Tupelo,
Mississippi. She excludes Buffett from her decision.
"It's not between me and Warren Buffet, it's between me and
God," Gillespie says. "I cannot bow before the Lord when I get to heaven and
have Him look me in the eye and say, 'You knew that your money was going to
fund abortion.' And that's why I'm quitting the Pampered Chef."
Gillespie says the decision was not a difficult decision for her
and her husband to make. "We searched God's Word and found a ton of
scriptures that I believe that God led us to find and know exactly where God
stands," she says.
"The Book of James it says if you know what to do and you don't
do it, it's a sin. So if you know where God stands on something and you
choose not to do it because of finances or because you like the product,
it's sin."
She says there was never any hesitation on her part about
quitting a company that helps finance the killing of innocent babies.
Citizen quotes a West Virginia mom and a 33-year-old Arizona mother of three
who both also have resigned from The Pampered Chef over its financial
support to abortion-related causes,
Buffett purchased The Pampered Chef in September 2002 and
remained under the management of Mrs. Christopher at that time.
ACTION NEEDED
AFA encourages you to forward this information to current
Pampered Chef Consultants, and to friends and family who have or may
purchase Pampered Chef products.
Additional research:
a.. Online version of this alert -
http://www.onemillionmoms.com/email/...hef070103.html
b.. The Website For Pampered Chef Consultants And Customers
Who Are Committed To Protecting Life
c.. Warren Buffet: No Project Too Controversial
d.. How Profits From The Pampered Chef Fuel The Abortion
Industry (The material at this site refutes a "defense" letter by Pampered
Chef Founder and Chairman Doris K. Christopher)
e.. Pampered Chef Consultant petition
f.. Shareholders Urge Billionaire to Stop Bankrolling Abortion
and Population Control
g.. Pampered Chef website contact page
PS: Don't forget! Forward this to your family and friends.
Thanks!
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