Melinda Gates: Let's put birth control back on the agenda

[Neoma]

Video Here

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Can't get the video to play

But I think I agree with her.

[applegrove]

2. Me too. videos don't play for me but if she wants an open & informing discussion on birth control I

agree.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. That's because, unlike the base of the Republican Party

she realizes it's not the 16th century.

[pacalo]

4. I liked her answer to the question, what would her former teachers (Catholic nuns) think

about her TED talk -- will they see it, will they be horrified?

Melinda said she knows the nuns who taught her are going to see the TED talk because she's going to send the video to them.

"They were incredibly progressive & I hope that they will be proud of me for living out what they had taught us about social justice & service."

[Kath1]

5. I liked her answer to that question as well!

I've been away from the Church for years but I think it is great to see a practicing Catholic, especially one as influential as her, speaking out on this issue.

"They were incredibly progressive & I hope that they will be proud of me for living out what they had taught us about social justice & service." Very well-said.

[pacalo]

6. Melinda seems to have focused on the right priorities of her religious teachings.

When one's priorities are put in the correct order, everything else falls into place, morally speaking.

If a woman doesn't want a lot of children, she has a right to decide for herself. As Melinda pointed out, men in African countries generally like to have a lot of children. The problem is, the women's chances of getting contraceptives is a hit & miss situation. Many women have to walk miles to get them, but they are available only sporadically.