Morning Briefing

On Thursday at the TEDxChange conference in Berlin, Germany, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "delivered a powerful case for universal access to contraception for women around the world who need and want it," the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. "She described birth control as an idea that, if made policy in both developed and developing countries, could save hundreds of thousands of women's and children's lives each year," the newspaper writes, adding that she "noted being brought up a Catholic and being educated at church schools through high school, even that her mother's great-uncle was a Jesuit priest."