Secular Café: Melinda Gates challenges Vatican by vowing to improve contraception

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Melinda Gates challenges Vatican by vowing to improve contraception Jul 11th 2012, 12:25 Quote: Catholic philanthropist predicts women in Africa and Asia will soon ignore church teaching on birth control The billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates, a practising Catholic, has thrown down the gauntlet to the Vatican and vowed to dedicate the rest of her life to improving access to contraception across the globe. Gates, who with her husband Bill, the founder of Microsoft, is one of the world's biggest players on development issues, predicted that women in Africa and Asia would soon be "voting with their feet", as women in the west have done, and would ignore the church's ban on artificial birth control. Gates, who was a speaker at the London Summit on Family Planning organised by her foundation in conjunction with the UK government and the UNFPA, said that since she announced her new direction a few weeks ago she had been inundated with messages of support from Catholic women, including nuns. Cont... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...-contraception Interesting, I wonder how much success they will have.

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