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(video) Melinda Gates speaks out about contraception

There’s a global movement waiting to happen.

Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates, was raised a Catholic and still considers herself to be a Catholic. And yet she uses contraception with no hesitation, along with 1 billion other people in the world. They want the power to plan their own lives and to raise healthier, better educated and more prosperous families. And shouldn’t everyone be free to decide whether they do or do not want to conceive a child?

Well – they’re not. Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the Global Health Agenda – and as a result, 100,000 women every year die in childbirth who didn’t want to be pregnant.

Melinda’s mission to put birth control back on the agenda is fuelled by the desire to educate and inform people that they have a choice. Just watch. You have to: