{"id":330043,"date":"2025-04-22T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330043"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:50:33","slug":"melinda-french-gates-rejected-catholic-doctrine-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/melinda-french-gates-rejected-catholic-doctrine-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Melinda French Gates rejected Catholic doctrine to spread her own ‘truth’ on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melinda French Gates, ex-wife of billionaire Bill Gates, is well-known for promoting contraception and abortion across the globe, both during her marriage to Gates and after. Less well known is that she claims to be a practicing Catholic \u2014 and, in a new interview, she claims she has reconciled her faith with her support for practices opposed by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Supporting death does not respect life<\/strong><\/p>\n

PEOPLE reported<\/a> that Gates appeared on The Jamie Kern Lima Show, where she claimed that she “believes in life” while at the same time, supports the killing of innocent preborn human beings. She began by claiming that people in developing countries are better off when they don’t have as many children.<\/p>\n

“I was learning from these men and women in villages about their lives. And they would talk about children. And both the men and the women knew that when they could space the births of those children, they were better off,” she said. “Or if they could limit, let’s say, they could limit and decide they were only gonna have three or four instead of six or seven, they knew they could then feed their kids, their kids could go to school. They had a chance, those kids, of maybe growing up and, you know, living their dreams.”<\/p>\n

She added, “I started to realize, I believe in life. I believe in these children’s lives. The worthiness of them, the inherent beauty on the day they’re born,” she explained. “But because of a man-made rule in the church that I am in \u2014 the Catholic church \u2014 we’re not allowing women to have access to contraceptives. And so talk about an incongruency, right? And I had to really then reckon with my faith.”<\/p>\n

READ: Melinda French Gates knows Big Abortion isn\u2019t \u2018underfunded,\u2019 but she\u2019s giving them $1B anyway<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But what Gates is missing is the fact that children are worthy not simply once they are born<\/em>, but from the moment they begin to exist \u2014 at fertilization (conception). And it is not incongruent<\/em> to believe in children’s lives while at the same time opposing practices that reject or end those lives before birth. (Of course, Gates prefers artificial birth control<\/a> to the idea of training women to use fertility awareness methods or natural family planning to space pregnancies \u2014 something endorsed by the Catholic Church and even taught by Mother Teresa<\/a> and other religious sisters to women in India.)<\/p>\n

What is incongruent<\/em> is claiming to respect life while funding the killing of innocent human lives.<\/p>\n

Gates has spent over $1 billion<\/a> promoting abortion<\/em> \u2014 not merely contraception \u2014 around the world, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion organization. Her foundation has paid journalists<\/a> to promote abortion, has donated to<\/a> the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) \u2014 which was known to be behind China\u2019s coercive One Child Policy, which involved forced abortions \u2014 and has given tens of millions of dollars<\/a> to Planned Parenthood, America’s top abortion provider.<\/p>\n