Nigerian Woman Writes to Melinda Gates: We Don't Need Your Contraception

Catholic Online ^ | August 16, 2012 | Obianuju Ekeocha

[NYer]

CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - This letter,offered below, was written by Obianuju Ekeocha, a 32-year-old Nigerian woman. For the past six years she has been living and working as a biomedical scientist in Canterbury, England. Most of her family and many friends still live in Nigeria.

She is active in her parish and says she is grateful to God for the graces she receives as she serves the Church.

She praises Catholic radio in America, specifically the programs of Teresa Tomeo and Al Kresta, for keeping her "informed and inspired in all the things that 'matter most,'" and for providing her with a Catholic world view.

She said she was inspired to write an open letter to Melinda Gates after learning of Gates' move to inject $4.6 billion worth of contraceptive drugs and devices into her homeland.

"The worst part is that no one in Africa (meaning the average African woman or man) knows that Melinda is about to bequeath us her 'legacy' which can and most probably will stifle love and life in our continent," she said.

She is hoping Melinda Gates will hear her "as the voice of the African woman."

An open letter to Melinda Gates
Growing up in a remote town in Africa, I have always known that a new life is welcomed with much mirth and joy. In fact we have a special "clarion" call (or song) in our village reserved for births and another special one for marriages.

The first day of every baby's life is celebrated by the entire village with dancing (real dancing!) and clapping and singing - a sort of "Gloria in excelsis Deo."

[NYer]

Unlike what we see in the developed Western world, there is actually very high compliance with Pope Paul VI's "Humanae Vitae." For these African women, in all humility, have heard, understood and accepted the precious words of the prophetic pope. Funny how people with a much lower literacy level could clearly understand that which the average Vogue- and Cosmo-reading-high-class woman has refused to understand. I guess humility makes all the difference.

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[NYer]

Amidst all our African afflictions and difficulties, amidst all the socioeconomic and political instabilities, our babies are always a firm symbol of hope, a promise of life, a reason to strive for the legacy of a bright future.

Pro-life ping!

[MNDude]

all the Nigerian women that have written to me were Afican queens who were trying to give me part of their twenty million dollars.

[the invisib1e hand]

our babies are always a firm symbol of hope,

especially the ones that don't have birth certificates!

[soycd]

The 3rd world needs more people in it like America needs more illegal immigrants.

[Red6]

Liberalism = a cult of death.

What position do liberals take on the side of life?

Abortion
Sterilization
Euthanasia
Homosexuality and other dysfunctional relationships that are sterile.

Where do they side with life? One exception, they are against capital punishment. Ironic, isn't it?

[wideawake]

You are a mindless misanthrope.

[Lorianne]

Beautiful.
Thanks for posting

[Jvette]

<<<>>> Silly woman! Don't you know that Melinda Gates does not care for what African women and children need, it's what she needs and right now that is to try to curtail the number of African babies. Margaret Stanger must be SO PROUD

[Jyotishi]

> The 3rd world needs more people in it like America needs more illegal immigrants.

Shocking comment about the third world!

[donna]

America has illegal aliens because we’ve killed 60,000,000 of our own babies.

[Popman]

The 3rd world needs more people in it like America needs more illegal immigrants.

No, what people in third world counties need is "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", not tin hat dictators or socialists thugs running their lives...

[Revolting cat!]

Then YOU write a letter of support to the Gates hag.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This woman was very polite. It would have so easy to slap Melinda Gates down in a sneering and sarcastic manner.

This would have been deserved, because Melinda Gates offers only suffering and destruction as her “gift”. It is a devil’s bargain, like offering “free” heroin to schoolchildren.

Is there deep and abiding racism in Melinda Gates gift, or just a tax write-off? Does she truly hate Africans, seeing them as “excess population”, polluting the Earth, like so many of her liberal peers?

[OrangeHoof]

We don't need your contraception
We don't need your birth control...

[PapaBear3625]

Where do they side with life? One exception, they are against capital punishment. Ironic, isn't it?

No exception. The people they try to spare, are takers of human life who are likely to kill again if they live. They are on the side of murderers.

[Eagles6]

Insightful, hopeful letter from an African lady who sees a baby as a gift, unlike our African that sees it as a punishment.

[KosmicKitty]

Seeing that Melinda’s husband is a billionaire, maybe he could buy her a new pants suit. Every time I’ve seen her, she’s wearing the same one. Come on, Bill, open the wallet and give Melinda a few $100 for some new clothes

Pssst, Melinda, marrying an uber rich guy does’t make you smart!! And it doesn’t give you the right to dictate to other people how they should live.

Remember, this is the woman who came up with the idea of “BoB”. I rest my case.

[IslamE]

Melinda Gates is a typical white elite who belittles those that happen to have a darker shade of skin than her own by trying to hinder their race through abortion and sterilization. Typical liberal, clever too, the Democrat platform is a plantation and the elites are the masters who control, conquer, and dived their property through hyphenated terms like African-American.