Melinda French Gates will donate $1 billion over the next two years to organizations working to advance the rights of women globally, including organizations dedicated to reproductive rights in the United States. She said her decision was motivated in part by the racial gap in women's mortality rates.
“As shocking as it is to contemplate, my 1-year-old granddaughter may grow up with fewer rights than I had,” French Gates wrote in a New York Times op-ed published this past Tuesday.
