Gates Foundation Gave $117 Million to the Two Biggest Abortion Businesses

There have been hundreds of news stories in the last week about Melinda Gates’ claim that the Gates Foundation will not fund abortions. Predictably, mainstream media news outlets picked up and ran uncritical pieces essentially toeing the party line.


LifeNews has already reported on the claim and the response from Father Shenan J. Boquet, president of Human Life International, who called the statement “outright deception.” We also profiled the Gates Foundation’s previous funding of the abortion industry.

However, LiveAction has a more detailed snapshot of the funding:
According to the Gates Foundation grant database, the Foundation gave Planned Parenthood of America, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington about $71 million from before 2009 through 2013. Additionally, the Gates Foundation gave $46.1 million to Marie Stopes International in 2012 alone.
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