Posted on 06/10/2024 2:57:10 PM PDT by Morgana
Melinda French Gates, billionaire and ex-wife of tech giant Bill Gates, has pledged $200 million to a number of pro-abortion organisations, at least five of which explicitly spend money funding abortions or lobbying Governments to repeal legislation that protects the unborn from abortion, making her one of the biggest individual donors to pro-abortion organisations in the world.
Writing in the New York Times last month, Gates announced she would be giving $1 billion (£782.4m) over the next two years “for people and organizations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United States”.
$200 million (£157 million) of this will be earmarked “to advance women’s power and protect their rights, including reproductive freedom”. The money will be distributed through her company Pivotal Ventures and will include providing funding for organisations that spend money funding abortions and promoting abortion in various ways.
Among the recipients of Gates’ money is the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a pro-abortion lobbying group that aims to “expand abortion rights and access”. The group reported an income of $66.8 million for the financial year ending 30 June 2022.
Gates’ money will also be distributed to another pro-abortion lobbying group, National Women’s Law Center, in Washington, D.C., which lobbies to repeal legislation that protects the unborn from abortion and reported an income of $25 million in the same financial year as the CRR.
The Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity, a group operating out of New York and which is committed to “protecting abortion access”, will also receive a portion of Gates’ $200 million.
In addition, two other organisations, Collective Future Fund and Ms. Foundation for Women, provide funding to other organisations that promote abortion.
Commenting on Gates’ funding for pro-abortion organisations, Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said “Melinda French Gates could do much to help women and their preborn children on the national — and even international level — yet she has decided instead to pour money into the abortion industry that already makes billions of dollars by taking the lives of innocent preborn children”.
A change of mind on abortion
Despite the fact that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided funding to abortion giant
International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1999, Melinda Gates has previously publicly distanced herself from abortion advocacy claiming: “I’ve decided not to engage on it publicly — and the Gates Foundation has decided not to fund abortion”.
However, in her guest essay in the New York Times, she makes reference to abortion becoming a matter for individual states to decide when Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022 as an apparent reason for her change of mind on the matter. “[I]n the post-Dobbs era” she said, “I now feel compelled to support reproductive rights here at home”.
In response to a question about her apparent change of mind on this issue, a spokesperson for Pivotal Ventures Foundation said: “Melinda’s focus on women’s power and influence hasn’t changed. She believes that health is a critical lever in enabling women to have their full power in society. Pivotal already funds organizations working across the reproductive health continuum, and this new commitment will include groups working on reproductive rights”.
An additional $240 million will be divided amongst a “group of 12 global leaders” including former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to distribute to charities they consider to be improving “womens’ health”. Along with each of the other “global leaders”, Ardern, whose Government introduced one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world in New Zealand in 2020, will be the recipient of $20 million of Gates’ money.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “It is disappointing when any money is spent funding abortions or lobbying Governments to repeal legislation that protects the unborn from abortion, but especially so when it is such a large amount. This money could be spent on supporting women who feel they have no choice but to have an abortion and instead enable them to give birth to their child”.
She SHOULD be EXCOMMUNICATED!!
So let’s see ... she espouses murdering babies and her hubby advocates depopulating the world ... Those two should get down on their knees every night and pray there is no Hell.
What a legacy to be remembered for.
I wouldn’t worry, eternity on fire is going to be great!
Another reason why the 19th Amendment needs to go but we're stuck with it.
Wow, how sad. To bad she doesn’t use it for a more USEFUL purpose and SAVE lives.
Why did Bill and Melinda get divorced? They were perfectly rotten soulmates using their money and influence for tyrannical and evil influences.
evil bastards, both of them
It’s her money.
Billy Boy was having an affair.
Similar to the Ross Perot family.
Ross Perot and his family have been at the forefront of the Dallas pro-abortion movement for decades with expensive work on behalf of the abortion industry.
Ross Perot on Abortion;
Pro-choice activist
Perot has not only taken a pro-abortion stand, his is the first presidential candidate ever to have conceived close personal and institutional ties to the abortion industry. The Perots are activists with an interest in the most radical fringe of the pro-abortion movement.
He funded an entire gynecological wing of the Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, which has provided first and second trimester abortions as well as amniocentesis research. He has also been a vocal supporter of Planned Parenthood.
Margot and Katherine Perot, 2005 Award Recipients:
Ms. Perot is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Dallas, board member of the Dallas Museum of Art and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Hockaday School. She is also a former elementary school teacher.
She has been a supporter of Planned Parenthood of North Texas for more than 20 years.
Margot and Katherine Perot are being recognized for their work Chairing Planned Parenthood North Texas’s first annual fund drive, Secure Our Mission, which raised more than $95,000.
Which makes sense of course. The Gates believe that the earth will die off if more children are born because of the contribution to “global chaos”. Although they themselves aren’t willing to “exit” to make room for new children to enjoy life they do enjoy the money they make while speaking and writing on the subject.
and he gave us the Clinton curse ...
Just think of how much better off the whole world would be if Both Melinda’s mother and Bill’s mother had availed themselves of abortions.
That’s a MAN, baby!
It figures. Anyone who would sell out to the likes of Bill Gates, would equally sell out to the abortion lobby.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has ALWAYS been “one of the biggest donors to abortion in the world”.
She’s just as evil as Bill.
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