Melinda Gates Now Biggest “Catholic” Donor to Pro-Abortion Causes in the World

The billionaire philanthropist pledges $200 million to ‘reproductive freedom,’ among other things.

For years, Melinda French Gates, who identifies as a Catholic, said she struggled with abortion as a public-policy issue and wouldn’t give money to it from the foundation she helped run with her now-former husband, Bill.

The struggle appears to be over.

Gates, who has written fondly about her Catholic upbringing, said this week she is giving multimillion-dollar donations to abortion-supporting groups.

One billion for abortion

The May 28 announcement saddened pro-lifers.

“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,” Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, told the Register.

“Tragically, this kind of ‘help’ destroys lives and damages women… ” — More: National Catholic Register

+ Bill Gates’ daughter promoted Planned Parenthood on Social Media

+ From Margaret Sanger to Melinda Gates: Population Control Continues (2012)

+ Why Melinda Gates Left the Gates Foundation: “I will leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of which I was a co-founder almost 25 years ago, to open a new chapter in my philanthropy. To begin, I am announcing $US1 billion in new spending over the next two years for people and organisations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United States.”