Melinda Gates is in London this week, spearheading a “groundbreaking summit” during which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the British government, will launch a $4-billion effort to deliver “family planning” devices to 120 million women by the year 2020. On the basis of feeble yet predictable justifications – surprising only because they survived her “soul–searching” – International Family Planning has become her top priority. Not “population control,” mind you, or some other term that might make it sound coercive or imperialistic or anything like that.
She points to the 100,000 women who die annually in childbirth around the world – the subset is the revelation – after “unintended pregnancies,” and the 600,000 babies of such pregnancies who die in the first month of life. Unintended pregnancy itself, for all intents and purposes, becomes a cause of death – much like the complications and infections that are manageable here, but actually do kill there, whether a woman’s pregnancy is planned or not.
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