Posted on 05/14/2015 3:04:55 PM PDT by Morgana
Popular Christian singer Amy Grant is defending her partnership with Melinda Gates of the pro-abortion Gates Foundation after LifeNews.com exposed the partnership and the foundation’s massive financial support for the abortion industry.
Amy Grant is pro-life on the issue of abortion, but she recently announced she is teaming up with one the head of the most pro-abortion foundations that shuttled millions towards abortions and abortion businesses.
In an opinion column on Fox News’ web site, Grant announced she is partnering with Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation to push birth control and contraception in impoverished nations. Grant said she hosted Gates recently at a Christian event in Nashville, Tennessee to discuss their partnership.
“I hosted Melinda Gates in Nashville as she came to meet with our vibrant faith community for the first time. I didn’t know Melinda, and she didn’t know me. But we did know each other’s work well. What an amazing experience to hear about her faith journey, how Christian music had influenced her commitment to the world’s poor, and to learn more about how I could join hands with her and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help 120 million women around the world, to save their lives and the lives of their children,” Grant writes.
Although Grant says she is knows “well” about the work the Gates Foundation does, apparently she is uninformed about the millions it has thrown to the abortion industry. As LifeNews previously chronicled, the Gates Foundations has sent tens of millions to the two biggest abortion businesses in the world, each of which have snuffed out the lives of millions of unborn babies in abortions that Grant opposes:
According to the Gates Foundation grant database, the Foundation gave Planned Parenthood of America, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington about $71 million from before 2009 through 2013. Additionally, the Gates Foundation gave $46.1 million to Marie Stopes International in 2012 alone. Both Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes have killed tens of millions of unborn children in abortions worldwide and are considered the two biggest abortion businesses with abortion facilities located across the globe. Planned Parenthood actively pushes legalizing abortions and overturning pro-life laws in the very nations Grant is hoping to help in her campaign.
Following the LifeNews article and criticism from pro-life people, Grant is defending her decision to support the Gates Foundation. She posted on Facebook:
Gates Foundation is NOT pro-abortion. This key line on the Hope Through Healing Hands website explains the focus of the Gates Foundation-backed Faith-based Coalition for Healthy Mothers & Children Worldwide: What do we mean when we say we support the “healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies”? We mean enabling women and couples to determine the number and timing of their pregnancies, including the voluntary use of methods for preventing pregnancy, not including abortion, that are harmonious with their values and religious beliefs. The term “family planning” is often used synonymously with this concept. This is found at this link: http://www.hopethroughhealinghands.org/about
Other responses from Amy Grant’s Facebook page make it clear Grnt is defending the contraception portion of her partnership with the Gates Foundation but ignoring it’s enormous investment in the abortion industry.
From Team Amy – we respect your opinion but simply do not agree that contraception and family planning are the same as abortion. Blessings.
From Team Amy – this initiative is decidedly pro-life in its efforts to improve the health of millions of women and children across the world.
From Team Amy – we are trying to respond as best we can. We aren’t perfect but are trying to explain our hearts. For you to insinuate that Amy was “bought” for this cause was insulting. This initiative is decidedly pro-life. The focus is to improve maternal and child health globally. We understand that good people disagree about issues and we certainly don’t want anyone supporting a cause that they don’t believe in. We, however, very much believe that maternal health and family planning (NOT abortions) are pro-life causes that value the lives of millions of women and children.
None of the comments from Grant’s official Facebook page at press time appear to respond to comments about the Gates Foundation’s millions in investments in abortion businesses worldwide and Grant’s partnership with an organization that pushes abortion on a global scale.
Perhaps Grant was prompted to partner with Gates by misleading news stories where Melinda Gates claimed the foundation wouldn’t fund abortions directly as making her foundation safe to work with, but the funding of the abortion industry is clear and a proven problem. Grant also needs to look further into the abortion advocacy of the foundation and Melinda’s own abortion push at international events.
ACTION: Contact Amy Grant with your comments and concerns and on Twitter.
Yes Amy some contraception acts as an abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage" from Latin abortus "miscarriage" and faciens "making") is a substance that induces abortion.
Amy contraception is in conflict with God’s laws and even protestants agreed with this until 1930.
Amy kindly sit down, shut up and let professionals who are truly pro life, fight the pro life battle.
oh and PS Amy get away from that apostate Catholic who is of the Devil
Sincerely,
A Catholic who knows what she is talking about!
I like Amy’s music. She has made some very big mistakes in her adult life that have been disappointing given that she is a role model for many. I don’t agree with her decision here. Neither do I care that much. I guess I am numb because I’ve had so many disappoints from people I thought highly of. Bottom line, oh well. Life goes on. It’s not like she sets public policy. If I get really bugged with what she is doing, I’ll sell my collection of her music like I did with Ray Boltz.
she’s smarmy as hell.
Isn’t her big song called Baby Baby?
That song is a jam...it still bangs.
Believers that fellowship at protestant local churches do not agree on birth control, ivf, many us actually believe it to be a sinful practice.
Some still don’t but the majority caved after the 1930 Lambeth Conference. The Anglican’s got the ball rolling and others followed. I’m not saying ALL followed but, let’s face it a great many did.
Amy kindly sit down, shut up and let professionals who are truly pro life, fight the pro life battle.
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Let’s presume that somehow Amy Grant, or any other pro abortion person, read your comments. Do you think that comments like yours would have the effect you desire or would they make her harden her stance even more?
Amy has just teamed up with a person who is well known as being very and I mean VERY pro abortion. Amy has always tried to put forth a Christian front in her music, well at least in the 1980’s she did. Now how does it look that a woman how calls herself Christian is teaming up with people who are very pro abort? Yep you got it! Christians are Pro Abortion! Is that the image you want? Because that is sure the image I don’t want. If this chick has any sense to her would distance herself as far as she could from the Gates Family and their Pro Abort policies.
Sort of like a minnow in a shark tank. Is she going to be able to push the abortion programs out of the picture where she appears? I doubt it. I hope she gets the hint pretty quick.
Amy grant hasn’t been a “christian” singer since she crossed over to pop in the late 80s early 90s.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help 120 million women around the world, to save their lives and the lives of their children,” Grant writes.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is used to kill babies either thru abortion or thru doctored vaccines.
I must have missed that - did Ray pull a Mike Warnke?
Compromise, baby. It's what makes the world go around.
Until it blows up.
I’d bow out were I Grant. Sadly however, it seems money talks.
Ray is now GayRay. No thank you.
What is wrong with all these Nashville and Hollywood celebs? /rhetorical
I agree with you about the Gates Foundation. Amy may buy the lie. I don’t know.
Amy, Amy, Amy...if you’re looking for a cause there are lots out there that do not make you partner with the likes of Melinda Gates. It sounds like Melinda sweet talked her way into Amy’s heart with stories of her “faith journey” and how Christian music gave her a love for the poor of the world - not doubt siting some of Amy’s old songs. Amy, how about taking on the plight of murdered Christians all over the world to the UN and being a voice for them?
” What an amazing experience to hear about her faith journey, how Christian music had influenced her commitment to the world’s poor,”
Well... at least her commitment to the poor who made it all the way to birth. The others, not so much.
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