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Gates this year left the charitable foundation she co-founded
with her former husband, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with
$12.5 billion for her own charity work.
She said the contrast between Biden and former President Donald
Trump, his Republican rival in the Nov. 5 election, "couldn't be
greater, and the stakes couldn't be higher."
"Women deserve a leader who cares about the issues they face and
is committed to protecting their safety, their health, their
economic power, their reproductive rights, and their ability to
freely and fully participate in a functioning democracy," she
wrote on social media platform X on Thursday.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated about $1.8 million
in the 2020 election, most of it to Democrats.
In a CNN opinion piece on Thursday, Gates elaborated further,
saying Trump's first term in office endangered the health of
women, their safety and freedom.
"And he deliberately appointed Supreme Court justices who would
overturn Roe v. Wade, which resulted in a decision with
far-reaching and catastrophic consequences for women and
families," her CNN piece added.
The court in 2022 overturned the 50-year-old ruling guaranteeing
the right to an abortion and ushered in a string of restrictive
state measures. Three justices appointed by Trump were in the
5-4 majority.
The Trump campaign had no immediate comment.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Howard
Goller)
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