The following comes from a June 8 posting on the Christian Post.
Philanthropist Melinda Gates revealed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the most charitable private foundations in the world, does not fund abortion.
“I understand why there is so much emotion, but conflating these issues will slow down progress for tens of millions of women. That is why when I get asked about my views on abortion, I say that, like everyone, I struggle with the issue, but I’ve decided not to engage on it publicly – and the Gates Foundation has decided not to fund abortion,” Gates wrote earlier this week, reflecting on a recent overseas trip.
Gates, who has worked on projects helping girls and women receive access to the health care they need, noted that during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Toronto, journalists heavily focused on Canada’s abortion policy, which is one of the few in the world that places virtually no limits on the practice.
“Around the world there is a deep, broad, and powerful consensus: We should provide all women the information and tools to time and space their pregnancies in a safe and healthy way that works for them. This approach is simple, it works, and it saves lives,” she wrote.
“The question of abortion should be dealt with separately. But in the United States and around the world the emotional and personal debate about abortion is threatening to get in the way of the lifesaving consensus regarding basic family planning.”
Gates’ comments where criticized in a few pro-abortion commentaries, such as an article in The Daily Beast on Thursday that asked her to “stop stigmatizing abortion.”
“These are preventable deaths, deaths suffered by women and communities the Gates Foundation desperately wants to help and could help – if Bill and Melinda Gates were willing to be part of solution in supporting practical access to safe abortion services, rather than part of the problem by perpetuating stigma and leaving only dangerous alternatives to prevail,” the article states.
Back in March, Bill Gates, who earlier this year regained his spot as the richest man in the world, said that his family goes to a Catholic church and that religious morality inspires a lot of their charity work.
“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We’ve raised our kids in a religious way; they’ve gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief,” the Microsoft founder says in an interview with Rolling Stone…..
In a separate interview in March, Melinda Gates talked about her Roman Catholic faith and how it corresponds to funding contraceptives in the global fight against AIDS.
“Even though I am Catholic I believe in contraceptives, just like the majority of Catholic women in the United States who report using contraceptives, and I shouldn’t let that controversy be the thing that holds us back,” Gates said.
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I won’t judge these two, but….Choke, cough, spit……this is really hard to swallow knowing their track record for introducing (pushing) “women’s reproductive rights” (aka contraception, sterilization, abortion) around the world. Excuse me now while I go vomit.
Oh, and, just because the “majority” of people do something that is against Church teaching, doesn’t mean it is right–Holy Mother Church is not, has never and never will be a “democracy” where your opinion holds any weight.
Hey Melinda, one more thing…..birth control works? Just had another girl call me that says she was on the pill and pregnant for the third time……Hey Melinda, want to know what happen to her first two babies? She aborted them. Contraception leads to abortion–either spontaniously because the Pill makes the womb inhospitable to the fertilized egg—or by abortion. So much of your “high and mighty” talk lands on deaf ears. You, my lady, will also stand in judgement before Our Lord. I would never want to be in your shoes. I will pray that you will one day you will have a full conversion and stand up for LIFE, from the womb to the tomb. Put your zillions behind LIFE and build your treasure in heaven.
Unlike what said in the “Daily Beast,” if Melinda Gates — a professed Catholic — simply came out and said, “I am against abortion, and the Gates Foundation will not fund abortion,” just imagine the positive impact. Instead, her “struggle” and volutary silence on the issue — Boo, Hoo, Hoo — speaks much more of support than of a positive moral stance on the issue. And, it is likely “baloney” that the Gates Foundation “does not fund abortion.” Mrs. Gates — a professed Cathoilc — said that she support contraception, and surely boatloads of Gates Foundation money goes to that. And, most assuredly, a number of contraceptive approaches include the provision of “abortifacient” drugs and devices for worldwide uses. Further, as money is fungible, giving money to an organization for thier various activities, while conditiioning the use of those monies not to go for abortion services, does nothing. A group like — surprise, Planned Parenthood — will simply internally shift their funds to cover abortion services, and keep the Gates Foundation money, all carefully accounted for, for non-abortion stuff. This is actually a very big help to Planned Parenthood, and others, so that restriction never works. The only way to stop abortion is never, ever, to fund anything in the organization, or government, or NGO, or any entity — in any capacity whatsoever — where that entity performs, or funds, or provides any resources however defined, that assists abortion. What an absolute fraud.
Melinda Gates is another cafeteria Catholic, a convenient excuse for doing whatever one wants to do and still profess to be a Catholic.
Yeah, right. The Gates Foundation directly funds organizations dedicated to spreading abortion and sodomy. That the Gates’ money might not go directly to fund abortion does not absolve them of culpability; their money is simply applied to other non-abortive expenses of the organization, freeing up organization funds for abortion. In short, you can’t give money to bank robbers to put gas in their car, and then claim you don’t fund bank robberies.
The Gateses are well meaning, but have drunk the abortion/contraception koolaid served by the mainstream media and their own schools. If they struggle with the issue, great! That means they are not too far gone. Even if they were “too far gone,” God makes room for right turns. They have the capacity to do so much good, rather than so much harm.
Our responsibility in the Plan is to pray for them and educate them. Personal attacks, while understandable because we are talking about life and death after all, are counterproductive to change.
When Jesus turned over all the money-changers tables in the temple and used a whip, I hope you don’t view that as counterproductive? As Mandy noted, do think that Melinda Gates can afford a Bible and the CCC? And maybe read them? Surely we pray always for the conversion of sinners–but sometimes you need to throw (with Love) a bucket of water on their heads to wake them up before it’s too late. How else will they awaken from their self absorbed amnesia?
Does anyone think that Melinda Gates can afford a “Catholic Bible”, and the
“Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” ?
CCC: ” 2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).”
CCC: “2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom.
In contrast, every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil:
Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other.
“Dissenting ‘Catholics United’ group funded by homosexual multimillionaire
The dissenting religious group Catholics United has received the lion’s share of its funding from a homosexual multimillionaire, seemingly driving its growing denunciations of the Catholic hierarchy and the pro-life/pro-family movement.
Catholic News Agency combed the organization’s financial records and discovered its top donor was Tim Gill, the former CEO of Quark, a record keeping software company.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dissenting-catholics-united-group-funded-by-homosexual-multimillionaire?
Bill Gates has pumped millions of dollars into Obama’s Common Core school program as well.
Wish the Gates’ would read the Bible and CCC.