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Melinda Gates is a Catholic and for years the Gates Foundation explicitly did not fund abortions for this reason. It took years of involvement with development

Melinda Gates is a Catholic and for years the Gates Foundation explicitly did not fund abortions for this reason. It took years of involvement with development work and exposure to the lives of women in the poor world for her to move from "absolutely against" to her current position of ambivalent support. Note that Gates Foundation money is still not permitted to be earmarked to fund abortions, but they will now fund organisations that work on contraception and reproductive health even if those organisations also carry out abortions. I neither know nor care whether they are the world's largest funders of abortion, although that link only says that they gave money to Planned Parenthood for work other than abortions. I'm not even going to try and parse your last sentence.

joeclark77 12y ago
They have always explicitly funded abortions, giving tens of millions of dollars directly to abortionists, and making very little effort to convincingly lie about it. Money is fungible. If you put money into one bank account, and I pay a bill with my other bank account, you have still funded my activity. Every ten-year-old knows this, which is why they are not only lying but also insulting us with such a poor lie. By the way, Planned Parenthood does abortions "in house", so it's not like they have any budget line items for "abortion" anyway. Unless they're doing activity-based costing, their budget is for things like [abortion] advertising, [abortion] lobbying, [abortion] facilities, [abortion] equipment, [abortionists] salaries, etc. Melinda Gates could conceivably fund their entire budget while claiming shamelessly that the funds were "not for abortion" and "earmarked for other expenditures".
- zo1 12y ago
  "millions of dollars directly to abortionists, and making very little effort to convincingly lie about it." Good, then you shouldn't have too much trouble getting a reliable source to confirm that, right? Right?
  - joeclark77 12y ago
    See the link a few steps above. $117 million to Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International over the past few years.

joeclark77 12y ago

They have always explicitly funded abortions, giving tens of millions of dollars directly to abortionists, and making very little effort to convincingly lie about it. Money is fungible. If you put money into one bank account, and I pay a bill with my other bank account, you have still funded my activity. Every ten-year-old knows this, which is why they are not only lying but also insulting us with such a poor lie. By the way, Planned Parenthood does abortions "in house", so it's not like they have any budget line items for "abortion" anyway. Unless they're doing activity-based costing, their budget is for things like [abortion] advertising, [abortion] lobbying, [abortion] facilities, [abortion] equipment, [abortionists] salaries, etc. Melinda Gates could conceivably fund their entire budget while claiming shamelessly that the funds were "not for abortion" and "earmarked for other expenditures".

zo1 12y ago
"millions of dollars directly to abortionists, and making very little effort to convincingly lie about it." Good, then you shouldn't have too much trouble getting a reliable source to confirm that, right? Right?
- joeclark77 12y ago
  See the link a few steps above. $117 million to Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International over the past few years.