What I do discuss - and feel passionately about - is birth control. I am for it. I am for women and girls having children only when they want to and choose to. I am for healthy moms and babies around the world. While I am not a fan of promiscuous sex, I am also not a fan of pregnancy as a punishment for having sex.
In this respect, I am a big fan of Melinda Gates. She and Bill are giving away billions to help people all over the globe in eradicating scourges like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis - but Melinda's special passion is birth control. She wants to cut world wide child mortality in half.
Not much research has been done in the contraceptive area in the last 20 years but Melinda says that one day we might have a contraceptive that would dissolve, like a breath mint melts in your mouth, though it would be inserted elsewhere. Or an implant in your arm that lasts three to five years.
Melinda Gates was raised a Catholic. I don't know how she relates to her faith at this time. But even Pope Francis, while he did reaffirm the Catholic Church's stance on contraception, just told us last week that we females "don't have to breed like rabbits."
Thank you Pope Francis. That's good news.
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