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CatLady78

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2. Education and Cheap Contraception
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 08:01 AM
Jun 2020

Melinda Gates said that when the Gates foundation stopped offering poor women with access to contraception (a debate poisoned by pro lifers and by suspicions of a racially motivated depopulation agenda) , poor women would come to them and ask for access to contraceptives.

As for a racially motivated agenda - it is possible. But that generally isn't how neo nazis and the far right/totalitarian regimes operate. They prefer it if people are starved of resources or just butchered.

There have been fascistic regimes that favor forcible sterilization. But generally a template involving the education of women (and men), access to contraceptives, information about the benefits of family planning and of the all around ill-effects of overpopulation is not part of a racially motivated depopulation agenda. Choice and education are key.

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