The good Catholics use condoms. A choice in favor of life
Text published on the Condoms4Life website (United States) on July 31, 2008, freely translated by Fabio
The American association Catholics for Choice (Catholics by choice) in 2008 launched the campaign "The good Catholics use the condom"And sent a message to the Pope asking to end the ban on condoms. We volunteers of Gionata.org support their initiative because we believe it is important to remember, both to heterosexual and homosexual people, who must use condoms to prevent the spread of sexual transmission diseases, first of all HIV. Life is a precious good that the Lord has given us. One must not hesitate to protect his own life and others from the spread of fatal diseases. Always using condom is “a choice in favor of life".
Since the opening of the conference, the delegates have asked Pope Benedict to remove the ban on using condoms and are united to efforts to promote approaches on the prevention of HIV who are ethical, reasonable and balanced.
As the South African Bishop Kevin Dowling observed, condoms are essential "To stop the transmission of a mortal virus".
The information campaign wants to invite Catholics to use these life protection tools and wants to recall religious hierarchies to join for active prevention of the diffusion of AIDS in the world.
According to a recent survey commissioned by Catholics for Choice, with interviews in Ghana, Ireland, Mexico, Philippines and the United States, the Catholics in favor of the use of condoms are overwhelmingly overwhelming.
To the question if “Using condoms is a choice in favor of life because it helps to save human lives from the spread of AIDS"90% of Mexican Catholics, 86% of Irish Catholics, 79% of US Catholics, 77% of the Philippines Catholics and 59% of the Catholics of Ghana have agreed.
Unfortunately, the position of the Catholic hierarchy has a predominant influence in the less capable countries of citing the disease with economic and health means.
"Catholics everywhere in the world declare unequivocally that using preservation is a choice in favor of life and I disagree with the Vatican ban on contraception that includes the use of condoms" Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, said "They know perfectly, as many bishops and priests have admitted in recent years, that the stakes are too high. Every day, more and more people are infected or die due to the HIV and AIDS virus".
Catholics for Choice has been engaged at various levels in the Mexico City Conference, organizing thematic seminars in English and Spanish, with presentations and relationships and mobilizing activists during the whole week.
"It is essential that activists from all over the world - both Catholic and non -Catholic - know the truth of what Catholics really think of the use of condoms and develop arguments to counter the dangerous Vatican warnings on the subject"Said O'Brien.
"It is a critical question that the Vatican moves rapidly towards the repeal of the ban on condoms.
The ban is having a devastating impact in the southern world and people are dying because of the ban."Said Teresa Lanza, Bolivian director of Catholicas Por El Derecho to decidir.
"In the north of the world it is easier for people to ignore the ban and buy condoms. In the south of the world, in less developed countries such as Bolivia, where Catholic hierarchies have a significant influence on public policies and people often rely on Catholic structures to access health care. The picture is very different. The ban means making the difference between life and death. Solom the Vatican to repeal the ban immediately " Mrs. Lanza continued.
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Original text: Catholics at XVII International AIDS Conference Tell Pope: End Ban on Condoms
