Posted on 06/28/2006 3:30:17 PM PDT by Frank T
NEW YORK, May 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a lengthy interview with Bill Moyers released today, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates reveals the inspiration for his funding of pro-abortion population control measures. Responding to a question by Moyers on how he came to fund "reproductive issues" Gates answered, "When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it's fascinating. At the dinner table my parents are very good at sharing the things that they were doing. And almost treating us like adults, talking about that."
In the interview Gates says he is moved by measurable progress and on "safe birth reproductive family planning issues" he says, "There's a measurable impact when you can go in and educate families, but primarily women, about their different choices. There's real impact that you can have in this area. Anything to do with reproductive health."
Although prodded more than once by Moyers, Gates refused a direct attack on President Bush's pro-life measures such as promotion of abstinence prior to marriage.
He admits that he was at one time a convinced Malthusian. "You know I thought it was.before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical. Well if you improve health, aren't you just dooming people to deal with such a lack of resources where they won't be educated or they won't have enough food? You know, sort of a Malthusian view of what would take place."
However, he claims he has seen beyond Malthusian conceptions of useless eaters since, he says, he has seen that by improving health and education population decreases as parents decide to have less children. Despite all his distancing from Malthus, Gates remains steadfast to the unfounded Malthusian fear of overpopulation.
See the transcript of the interview with Gates at: http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html See The Quiz Gates Failed http://www.all.org/gates/index.htm UN POPULATION FUND RECEIVES $57 MIL FROM GATES http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/apr/00040504.html
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The Economists and the Death Camps - A review of Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction
http://www.claremont.org/writings/050221behnegar.html
A book review that points out how part of the underpinings of the national socialist movement in Europe had to do with the question of population, rational planning, and the unintended consequences of Malthusian dread. Don't forget, the Germans killed their own (the meak, old, and unproductive) before targeting politically convinient minority groups.
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles5/MessallEugenics.php
We've been down this path before, and now with the Gates foundation, the eugenics movement can start to make a comeback.
I guess when you're that rich you don't have to care about human life. It's pretty sickening to know this and see Gates going on about saving children in Africa.
huh, maybe we can send him a copy of that video showing a partial birth abortion...wonder if his Dad and Mom were able to share something like THAT?
Can't imagine sitting around the dining room table and being told that my parents supported abortion....Bill must have been a great disappointment to them...
ironic, yes. kill babies here, save them from malnutrition, rape, murder, AIDS there...
god in the computer world and or course god in all reproductive matters. thank you mr gates.
How sad.
The camel is not going through the eye of the needle.
Start making abortion more common in Africa, and know what will happen? My guess is the reactionaries bring in Islam and sharia law, like they are doing in Somalia now, to help purify the people of Western influence.
Gates might appreciate what he calls more choice for poor women in the third world, but what of the men?
Bill & Mil also funded a Mecha-La Raza magnet high school for those who hate America, and gringos.
Islam allows abortion in the first 120 days.
What they do not allow is the promotion of homosexual behavior than all the UN population types like to preach on about.
Maybe, instead of dropping out of college, Bill Gates should have run away from home.
well isnt that great,i guess when you have that much money anyone can afford a lobottomy. not sure of the sp
For the life of me, I simply cannot comprehend how people who have benefitted so greatly from our free enterprise system (Gates, Buffett, $oro$) turn out to be such raving leftist moonbats.
"I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much."
Liberals often remind me of this Chesterton quotation. They have such unseemly zeal for stopping humanity in general and the unprivileged in particular from reproducing. Nothing so warms the hearts of liberals as preventing and killing babies - especially if their parents are poor and uneducated.
I think Gates is pretty much useless outside of Microsoft.
'Nothing so warms the hearts of liberals as preventing and killing babies - especially if their parents are poor and uneducated.'
Until they start counting up the lost votes of the past 30 years...
30 million?
If Bill Gates and Co. only understood the beginnings of Planned Parenthood and what they really wanted to accomplish, maybe, just maybe, he would think twice. Planned Parenthood, from its inception, was inherently racist. This is elitist thinking at its finest.
According to the original premise of Planned Parenthood (and I would suspect most of liberal intelligentsia) a poor, black African does not have the same right to have a baby as the New York East Manhattan "mother" who parks the baby with a "nanny" while she has lunch with her fellow socialites.
No matter how one chops this conversation up, one thing is for sure, Bill thinks he is God. Basically what he is talking about is the shaping of the people of this world in a big picture perspective that involves who and who should not be born. This to me is God's work, not man's. Last time I looked, Bill is a very rich and a very powerful man, but still just a man who will die like all the rest of us one day.
Just to play devil's advocate, but wouldn't it be better if people in africa had effective birth control and abortion, so they might only have, say two mouths to feed somewhat adequately then having fifteen that can't be fed and die of aids when their 17?
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Absolutely right ,, unfortunately that seems to be the fate of most top level executive types,, they're used to being in charge and try to form the world around them ,, I wonder what Warren Buffet is thinking now?
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