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Thursday, June 29, 2006

buffett/gates - baby killers?

i just read this article where anti-abortion activists accuse Warren Buffett and Bill Gates of killing babies because they have pledged support to planned parenthood (pp) and international birth-control programs. however, the bill & melinda gates foundation (bmf, for short) has donated less than 1% of their funds to pp, and they have specified that the funds not be used for abortions.

for the record:
- i am a christian
- i do not support abortion
- i do support birth control
- i don't support planned parenthood because of their abortion programs

that being said,
i think it's ridiculous that these groups are spending so much effort condemning buffett and gates. how much money have they donated to help people who are less fortunate than themselves? or do they just focus their money on their own homogenized group?

sure, i understand derailing abortion. i do not believe it is right to kill a baby - period. but from what i've read, gates' organization is not about abortion but about preventing unwanted pregnancies from occurring in the first place.

why are some groups so eager to have children born to families and environments where they will do nothing but suffer? why support creating children that will die of malnutrition, disease, etc.? no, i don't support killing a baby that has already been created but most definitely i support limiting the number of babies created.

i believe there are already too many people on the planet. i am all for providing birth control, especially in these periphery countries where people are in extreme poverty.

i don't understand why people are so eager to defend people who haven't been born yet, and meantime they don't show one-tenth of the same compassion for people already on this planet. i care about unborn babies, but i also care about people already born. i know, sounds sort of self-righteous. i guess my point is it just irks me how organizations (regardless of who they are) only look at one thing when there's so much more.

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