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Melinda French Gates Explains How She Reconciles Her Faith with Being Pro-Choice: ‘This Is What I Believe and Know to Be True’

Melinda French Gates opened up about how she's reconciled her Catholic faith with being pro-choice on 'The Jamie Kern Lima Show.' She shared how her conversations with people living in 'low-income countries' with no access to contraceptives shifted her perspective on the issue.

Melinda French Gates is opening up about what she describes as "almost a crisis of faith" that ultimately led her to reconcile her Catholic beliefs with her pro-choice stance. Melinda then recalled having conversations with residents in these villages and learning that, due to a lack of access to contraceptives, many women had pregnancies "too close together" and "lost that baby prematurely because the birth was too quick and her body wasn't ready." Once she spent time digging into the lectures, books and teachings of Richard Rohr — whom Melinda described as "a very liberal Jesuit priest" — she "realized, 'Wow, I need to actually unlearn some of these things because I can't square the circle.'

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