Saving Mothers and Babies With Family Planning
With the deaths of at least 100,000 women in childbirth every year, as well as 600,000 babies, it's time to put the controversy of family planning aside and do the right thing for women and their children, says Melinda Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Contraceptives
Bill Gates is known for his support of “Population Control” and a number of Web Sites have shared the audio of his belief that vaccination programs can help reduce populations in the world. So this pledge for contraception’s should not be surprising.
Although the idea of using contraceptives somehow saves lives, the beginning of contraceptive use in America can be traced to Margaret Sanger, who was jailed around 1917 for distributing contraceptives within poor populations. She believed all minority populations should be sterilized. After her book, “The Pivot Of Civilization”, opposition against her Nazi ideals was seriously challenged and she began to try another approach by creating “Planned Parenthood” as a means of saving lives.
The idea contraceptives somehow saves lives is very interesting, but opposition to the use of contraception has been going on since the early 1800′s.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the last few years has been under scrutiny by a number of organizations and church groups, for its financial support of vaccinations programs, contraception support, in addition to the support and distribution of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Food products and agriculture placed in Third World Cultures.
We each can draw our own conclusions to the meaning of this Pledge.
John
Ref: 1. The Pivot Of Civilization, Margaret Sanger 2. Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against Scientifically Organized State, G.K. Chesterton, and Michael W. Perry 3. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton 4. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Jeffery Weeks 5. DVD, Genetically Modified Foods, Panacea or Poison? 6. DVD, Vaccines, What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, Dr. Sherri J Tenpenny
Contraceptives
Bill Gates is known for his support of “Population Control” and a number of Web Sites have shared the audio of his belief that vaccination programs can help reduce populations in the world. So this pledge for contraception’s should not be surprising.
Although the idea of using contraceptives somehow saves lives, the beginning of contraceptive use in America can be traced to Margaret Sanger, who was jailed around 1917 for distributing contraceptives within poor populations. She believed all minority populations should be sterilized. After her book, “The Pivot Of Civilization”, opposition against her Nazi ideals was seriously challenged and she began to try another approach by creating “Planned Parenthood” as a means of saving lives.
The idea contraceptives somehow saves lives is very interesting, but opposition to the use of contraception has been going on since the early 1800′s.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the last few years has been under scrutiny by a number of organizations and church groups, for its financial support of vaccinations programs, contraception support, in addition to the support and distribution of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Food products and agriculture placed in Third World Cultures.
We each can draw our own conclusions to the meaning of this Pledge.
John
Ref: 1. The Pivot Of Civilization, Margaret Sanger 2. Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against Scientifically Organized State, G.K. Chesterton, and Michael W. Perry 3. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton 4. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Jeffery Weeks 5. DVD, Genetically Modified Foods, Panacea or Poison? 6. DVD, Vaccines, What CDC Documents and Science Reveal, Dr. Sherri J Tenpenny
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