Mrs G's New Hobby Horse

Ed Willock's little quatrain is as true as ever:

The working man of all his troubles
the social worker rids.
Freud relieves him of his soul.
And Sanger takes his kids.

Although maybe Melinda could replace Sanger without too much damage to the scansion. That first syllable is pretty soft. D'ye think?

At any rate, it looks like she aims to be the 21st century's Margaret Sanger:

July 6, 2012 (C-fam.org) - Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report. He asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives.

Colbert: “But now you’ve got a new charitable hobby horse you’re on, and it’s not necessarily saving people’s lives, so much as it’s stopping people’s lives from existing. You want to provide family planning to 120 million men and women around the world.”

Melinda Gates: “Right.”

The old population control movement existed for more or less the same reason, to eradicate poverty by eradicating the poor. In fact, the only major difference between the two movements is one of semantics. Today’s newest generation of population control proponents are still billionaires, still from the first world, and are still convinced that the poor are at the center of the world’s woe.

Lifesite news has the rest here.