{"id":221490,"date":"2020-04-07T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=221490"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:10:42","slug":"twitter-ceo-1b-coronavirus-fund-family-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/twitter-ceo-1b-coronavirus-fund-family-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter CEO pledges $1B to fight coronavirus… and fund ‘family planning’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, has announced that he is investing $1 billion of his own personal money towards the COVID-19, or coronavirus, pandemic. Dorsey made the announcement on Twitter<\/a>, explaining that all funds will be openly tracked through a public Excel document; so far, the only spending listed is $100,000 for America’s Food Fund, which helps give food to people battling food insecurity due to the pandemic. This is incredibly generous of Dorsey, and charitable work like this is needed during the pandemic. However, his money comes with an agenda; he also announced that once the pandemic is over, the money will be shifted towards funding “girls’ health,” which is typically meant to include birth control and abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up tweet, Dorsey explained that his other two goals were to work towards Universal Basic Income (UBI), as well as improved education for girls. “Why UBI and girl\u2019s health and education? I believe they represent the best long-term solutions to the existential problems facing the world,” he wrote. “UBI is a great idea needing experimentation. Girl\u2019s health and education is critical to balance.”<\/p>\n

While he didn’t say which programs he specifically would fund after the pandemic is over, he attached a link to Project Drawdown<\/a>, a climate change organization. Dorsey’s link discussed health and education<\/a>, which many in developing countries — but girls especially — don’t have access to. Yet the health care to which Project Drawdown refers<\/a> is very specific: it seems to only be concerned with “family planning.”<\/p>\n

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Project Drawdown screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

The link explained that hundreds of millions of women in developing countries “say they want the ability to choose whether and when to become pregnant but lack the necessary access to contraception.” It added, “Currently, the world faces a $5.3 billion funding shortfall for providing the access to reproductive healthcare that women say they want to have.” And, unsurprisingly, population control inevitably comes into play. “Addressing population — how many feet are leaving their tracks — remains controversial despite widespread agreement that greater numbers place more strain on the planet.”<\/p>\n

Overpopulation is a myth, and efforts to curb population growth are frequently rooted in eugenics and racism, disproportionately discouraging people of color in developing nations from having children.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Vox: Population control won\u2019t solve climate change, disproportionately harms people of color<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n