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Software king of the world Sir William Gates and his wife Melinda are taking on their biggest enemy since the mosquito – the Roman Catholic Church.
Melinda Gates, who is a Catholic, has said that the Gates Foundation will dedicate the rest of their lives improving access to contraception across the globe.
Gates told the Sydney Morning Herald that unless the Church pulled its finger out on contraception, women in African and Asia would be "voting with their feet", as women in the West had done, and would ignore the church ban on artificial birth control.
She said that she had been inundated with messages of support from Catholic women, including nuns who wanted the Church to be more sensible about contraception. There were women out there who had been coming on to websites and saying 'I'm a Catholic, but I believe in contraception'.
She said that in the West, while Bishops banged on about contraception, ordinary Catholics just did the opposite. In Africa however it was a big trickier.
In the US, 82 per cent of Catholics say contraception is morally acceptable. So let the women in Africa decide.
Melinda said that she did have some problems speaking out in defiance of the church hierarchy.
As a Catholic she believed in the religion and its "amazing moral teachings". But she also had to think about keeping women alive.
When it comes to not letting women or babies die, that's more important than arguing about what method of contraception is right, she thinks.
Mr and Mrs Gates are pouring $560 million into improving access to birth control over the next eight years.
She said it was time to push contraception back to the top of the development agenda.
She said that when the Gates Foundation started, it had focused on family planning. However it changed direction to vaccines after realising that women would not choose to have fewer children until they were sure their offspring would survive beyond childhood.
Billy needs to keep her barefoot and pregnant.
Billy needs to keep her barefoot and pregnant.
Actually, Melissa attended Ursuline Academy in Dallas, of which my wife is also an alumnae. She and Bill have donated a great deal of equipment and money towards Catholic education.
Quare contraconception ne eadem non permissum contra iniuriam illata in pueri ab sodomiticum a ab sacerdotium?
"Actually, Melissa attended Ursuline Academy in Dallas, of which my wife is also an alumnae."
Well may be so, however attending but Not
learning it is utterly obtuse.
I hop8e she can start over again from square One and reach a better goal.
"Actually, Melissa attended Ursuline Academy in Dallas, of which my wife is also an alumnae."
Well may be so, however attending but Not
learning it is utterly obtuse.
I hope she can start over again from square One and reach a better goal.
I'd expect that Melissa Gates' degree of Billionairess would trump all the utter obtuseness of your better goals. At any stratum of the intelligentsia, I'd dare say she is beyond mine and your league. Perhaps you are also discounting her earned bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987, and honorary degree from the University of Cambridge, and inclusion in Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful Women and participation at Bilderberg Group conferences.
Well done, sir.
However, we readers should commend Lenber for his humorous self-deprecation. An example can be seen in Hamlet's graveside speech found in Hamlet by William Shakespeare. "Where be his quiddities now?, his quillets?, his cases?, his tenures?" The obvious answer is that they lie below within his haecceity; though we may quibble, albeit, he is gravely beneath it all.