There is another aspect of this (beyond the Catholic issues presented) which Ms Gates is missing.
Since day one ‘overpopulation’ has been presented as a problem that is caused by women. By focussing her efforts on women and contraception, Ms. Gates is allying herself with this paradigm:
Population = problem
Controlling women = solution
This is VERY dangerous for women’s human rights, as we have witnessed in China. Ends-justify-the-means tactics ALWAYS go after the people in society with less status and fewer rights ... hence women and children are frequent targets.
The Gates Foundation has done good work the world over with many of their programs ... yet they are turning onto a very dangerous path for women.
There is also the issue of cultural imperialism which is being ignored.
So, there are other criticisms of Ms Gates’ approach beyond those found in Catholic doctrine.
Chesterton on birth control/population control: In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
Without the subjugation of Western women in particular and all women in general, the Caliphate will never be formed under universal sharia law.
The moral battle lines are drawn.
I pray Melinda Gates reconsiders her position on this, because she is on the wrong side, no matter how well-intentioned she thinks she is being.