Melinda Gates, the former wife of billionaire abortion activist Bill Gates, claims she’s a faithful Catholic even though she’s pro-abortion.

Gates, a prominent philanthropist and former co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed her radical pro-abortion views on “The Jamie Kern Lima Show” a few days ago.

Despite her Catholic faith, which traditionally opposes abortion, she claims she’s a faithful Catholic even though she’s totally at odds with one of the Catholic Church’s main social teachings.

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Gates described her shift in perspective as a result of her global travels, where she encountered women in low-income countries lacking access to contraceptives and spacing out births.

“I was out in low-income countries, three, sometimes four times a year all over the world. And I was learning from these men and women in villages about their lives. And they would talk about children. And both the men and the women knew that when they could space the births of those children, they were better off,” she said – ignoring the fact that babies don’t have to be killed to space out births.

Gates continued: “Or if they could limit, let’s say, they could limit and decide they were only gonna have three or four instead of six or seven, they knew they could then feed their kids, their kids could go to school,” she continued. “They had a chance, those kids, of maybe growing up and, you know, living their dreams.”

Again, gates ignores the obvious fact that billions of families in human history have limited their children but didn’t have to kill babies to do so.

Gates reconciled her beliefs by concluding that supporting abortion aligns with human dignity, even though abortion erases human dignity by killing humans.

“I realized, ‘Wow, I need to actually unlearn some of these things because I can’t square the circle,‘ ” Melinda gates said of the tenets of the Catholic church.

Without any sense of irony, Gates claims her pro-abortion views support children.

“I started to realize, I believe in life. I believe in these children’s lives. The worthiness of them, the inherent beauty on the day they’re born,” she explained. “But because of a man-made rule in the church that I am in — the Catholic church — we’re not allowing women to have access to contraceptives. And so talk about an incongruency, right? And I had to really then reckon with my faith.”

Despite spending billions promoting abortion and population control, Gates told Kern Lima that she ultimately concluded that she believes “in the dignity of life.”

That gates’ comments came just a couple days prior to the death of Pope Francis add to the irony, as the leader of the Catholic Church to which gates claims to be such a faithful member was very consistently pro-life and frequently condemned abortion and the “slaughter” of babies before birth.

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