Follow the Money GATES’ AND BUFFETT’S BILLIONS FUND ANTI-LIFE PROGRAMS

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Follow the Money GATES’ AND BUFFETT’S BILLIONS FUND ANTI-LIFE PROGRAMS
Sept. 3-9, 2006
by TOM McFEELY

TORONTO — Melinda Gates is a Catholic who attended high school at Dallas’ all-girls Ursuline Academy. But she’s anything but Catholic in her position on condom use.
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“In the fight against AIDS, condoms save lives,” she said at last month’s International AIDS Conference in Toronto, where she and megabillionaire husband Bill jointly delivered the Aug. 13 keynote address. “If you oppose the distribution of condoms, something is more important to you than saving lives.”
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Catholic teaching — and AIDS statistics — beg to differ. Not only do condom promotion programs fail where abstinence succeeds against AIDS — but souls as well lives are at stake.
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Gates’ comments spotlighted concerns that many Catholics and pro-life and pro-family activists have about the operations of the Seattle-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the couple’s huge charitable foundation.
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The critics point out that the foundation, which concentrates on education and global health initiatives, has directed tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and other groups that operate anti-life and anti-family programs.
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