After months and months of listening to American politicians and pundits droning on about their shallow ideological opinions into birth control and people’s right to choose, mostly from an American hinterland fundamentalist point of view, it was refreshing to hear Melinda Gates at a TED talk speaking on the subject from a global perspective. No nonsense, full of common sense, and with deep insight gathered from a decade of meeting real women in third world countries, Melinda Gates shares her views and her suggestions on how to improve the lives of millions of people.