Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Focusing on Contraception

Five years ago, I wrote this piece on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and an interview I had seen in which Melinda mused: “It’s weird. When I visit them, all I want to talk about is vaccines; all they want to talk about is contraception.”

From my post:

But is that really so weird? If I were having those conversations, I’d be inclined to regard them as perfectly rational, though desperate, pleas for help.

Apparently, living under these miserable conditions, and caring about the welfare of their children as only mothers can, means wanting to create fewer of them. Mothers seem to know something that defies our understanding as philanthropists: alleviating suffering means manufacturing less of it. This is what these women are telling us with heart-piercing clarity. Why is this so hard for us to grasp? Why aren’t we listening?

Well, good news.  Check out this fabulous new video that the Foundation has made on the subject of contraception: