You’re Right, Bill Gates: The Death of a Child is a Tragedy – So Why Are You Not Pro-Life?
According to a new report from the Gates Foundation, more children under the age of five are expected to die this year than last – a tragic milestone that marks the first time the child death rate has increased in decades.
Officials at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation project that 243,000 more children will die by the end of 2025 than who died in 2024.
The bulk of the deaths are in African countries – Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Eritrea. These are war-torn areas historically plagued by civil unrest, corrupt governments and fragile if not altogether broken healthcare systems.
The Gates “2025 Goalkeepers Report” recognizes these realities but also makes a full court press for restoring and increasing funding from other countries to help pay for lifesaving care. Gates writes, “If funding for health decreases by 20 percent – the scale of cuts some major donor countries are currently considering – 12 million more children could die by 2045.”
In the report released Thursday, Gates makes a declarative statement:
“The death of a child is always a tragedy.”
Both fans and critics of Bill Gates should be able to agree that the tech titan is right to say so. And he’s certainly put his money where his mouth is when it comes to his personal convictions on what to do about it. Over the years, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist has donated over $100 billion to global health initiatives and has pledged to give $100 billion more in the years to come.
But has the money been spent on truly helping children and adults – or has it often been used to advance a dark and detrimental agenda? Tragically, evidence points to the latter.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed over $80 million to Planned Parenthood. Last year, Melinda Gates announced plans to give $2.5 billion to support “women’s health initiatives” – an umbrella term that includes the protection and expansion of so-called “abortion rights.”
Over the years, despite his claims to want to save children’s lives, Bill Gates has championed the right to kill them in the womb. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, Gates tweeted,
“This is a sad day. Reversing Roe v. Wade is an unjust and unacceptable setback. And it puts women’s lives at risk, especially the most disadvantaged.”
Such a claim is a bold-faced lie. In fact, legal abortion puts tens of millions of innocent children at risk every year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute, over 73 million babies are aborted around the globe each year – nearly a million right here in the United States.
When calculating child mortality rates, why aren’t the pre-born included in the statistics? To claim that progress has been made up until this year regarding childhood death ignores the dignity and reality of those innocent pre-born souls snuffed out inside their mothers’ wombs.
Bill Gates is right that the death of every child is a tragedy, but that also includes children in the womb. If he is sincere and serious about using his massive wealth to help save innocent young lives, he’ll recognize their existence, their right to live – and expand his sights on trying to lower the abortion rate around the world.
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