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Nigerian Pro-life Leader Speaks Out Against Melinda Gates’ Push for Contraception in Africa
Townhall ^ | 18 July 2017 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 07/21/2017 11:23:37 AM PDT by Lorianne

Obianuju Ekeocha, a Nigerian-born biomedical scientist and the founder of Culture of Life Africa, a U.K.-based pro-life group, argued on BBC’s Sunday Morning Live that the Gates Foundation’s push for contraception in Africa might be “an insidious way of moving the agenda of population control” since in many African countries the “desired number of children is actually quite high.”

Melinda Gates announced last week that the Gates Foundation will commit an additional $375 million to family planning programs citing deep concerns “about the White House’s proposed budget cuts to global family planning efforts.” President Trump recently expanded a policy that bans taxpayer funds from going to programs that perform or promote abortion overseas.

“When a woman has access to contraceptives, she tends to have fewer children. Families can devote more resources to each child’s nutrition, health, and education, setting them up for a better future,” Gates said.

“I’m sure Melinda Gates means well,” Ekeocha began, “but you see the problem is there is an arrogance and something in what I see as questions not being asked in all the talk about contraception and helping women space their children is what exactly, speaking of Africa for example, what exactly do women want?”

“In most of the African countries you get to find and research continues to show all the time that African women you know in a lot of the countries desire or desired number of children is actually quite high when cultures where people for example value children or value big families what are you saying to the women if you continue to push their governments towards the so-called family planning projects?”

“Not that people are not spacing their children,” she added, “it’s that this might indeed be an insidious way of moving the agenda of population control.”

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1 posted on 07/21/2017 11:23:37 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
“it’s that this might indeed be an IS insidious way of moving the agenda of population control.”
2 posted on 07/21/2017 11:31:18 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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Africa’s population needs to be controlled. Yesterday.


3 posted on 07/21/2017 11:35:45 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Lorianne

Sometimes rich leftist globalists should mind their own business.

Melinda, your money does not impress everyone, nor does it make you an expert on other peoples lives.


4 posted on 07/21/2017 11:37:35 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Lorianne

Just like most everything else with activists, it’s not hard to read between the lines. ““an insidious way of moving the agenda of population control” They have a plan. They wont tell you explicitly what it is, but you can judge them in their actions, as well as in their objections.


5 posted on 07/21/2017 11:39:20 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Lorianne

Why does Melinda Gates hate Africans?


6 posted on 07/21/2017 11:41:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Lorianne

Africans should be able to have as many children as they can feed through their own efforts. And only that many.


7 posted on 07/21/2017 11:47:45 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Lorianne
I used to believe this stuff but now I've learned:
Population Control -> Underpopulation -> Target for Mass Migration and Takeover.

8 posted on 07/21/2017 12:14:36 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: BitWielder1

So Nigeria is a target for underpopulation, then mass inbound immigration? If anything this seems like an effort to reduce future African immigration to the US and europe.


9 posted on 07/21/2017 12:25:13 PM PDT by socalgop
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To: Lorianne

Is Gates seeking to reduce ALL African populations or just the compliant ones willing to self exterminate (letting the other groups outpace them)?


10 posted on 07/21/2017 12:25:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Africa’s population needs to be controlled. Yesterday.

How about we let Africans decide that and leave Melinda Gates out of it?
11 posted on 07/21/2017 12:39:14 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Lorianne

On the one hand, Africans should be able to choose how many children they have. But they ought to pay for it themselves. The way things are going now, the exploding African population is driving mass emigration to Europe. That’s not fair.


12 posted on 07/21/2017 12:39:49 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In a previous life, she was margaret sanger.


13 posted on 07/21/2017 12:42:33 PM PDT by DPMD
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To: Lorianne
“When a woman has access to contraceptives, she tends to have fewer children. Families can devote more resources to each child’s nutrition, health, and education, setting them up for a better future,” Gates said.

Another elitist with an intuitive grasp of the obvious!


14 posted on 07/21/2017 12:53:27 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Africa’s population needs to be controlled. Yesterday.

It's a dicey subject for sure.

I hate the globalists and leftist billionare do-gooders but Africa is a train wreck with a population growing more unsustainable and society going in the opposite direction.

These fraud foundations are inherently racist. The investment should be in moving people to technology,tapping trillions in natural resources and striving to get their economically challenged society out of poverty. Once a society gains the benefits of economic growth population will settle.

15 posted on 07/21/2017 1:06:46 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yup


16 posted on 07/21/2017 1:15:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lorianne

Religious objections aside, it does make sense to have only as many children as can be fed, housed and clothed adequately, especially in places with limited resources. That does not justify aborting the excess, though; that’s still killing.


17 posted on 07/21/2017 1:41:24 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Who are you to determine who should have kids? Look at Europe and Scandinavia with their near-zero birth rates. How is that working out for them?


18 posted on 07/21/2017 2:36:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: shanover

Africa simply needs to industrialize and embrace freedom and open markets. This $375 million could easily build infrastructure and water pipes to commjnities.


19 posted on 07/21/2017 2:39:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Who would impose that on them?


20 posted on 07/21/2017 2:41:01 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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