New Pope
I hope the new pope will have a more humane and modern view towards HIV/AIDS and contraception than the last pope did.
The Church in Africa is extremely powerful, unlike the African continent which is one of the poorest on the planet.
In Africa "An estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004"avert.org Yet "the overall provision of condoms to sub-Saharan Africa is only 4.6 per man per year"avert.org. I'm not saying that the church is the main cause of this but it certainly isn't helping the situation.
The reason the Catholic church is so against contraception is because it is supposedly stopping potential life from starting. However by not using contaception it is likely to end even more human life by the spread of AIDS. I don't have the exact figures but you are probably just as likely to get HIV by having unprotected sex than you of getting pregnant, or worse to get pregnant and then give birth to a child who has HIV. The point is that the use of condoms in Africa will probably save more lives than the prevention of "potential" lives.
The Church in Africa is extremely powerful, unlike the African continent which is one of the poorest on the planet.
In Africa "An estimated 25.4 million people are living with HIV and approximately 3.1 million new infections occurred in 2004"avert.org Yet "the overall provision of condoms to sub-Saharan Africa is only 4.6 per man per year"avert.org. I'm not saying that the church is the main cause of this but it certainly isn't helping the situation.
The reason the Catholic church is so against contraception is because it is supposedly stopping potential life from starting. However by not using contaception it is likely to end even more human life by the spread of AIDS. I don't have the exact figures but you are probably just as likely to get HIV by having unprotected sex than you of getting pregnant, or worse to get pregnant and then give birth to a child who has HIV. The point is that the use of condoms in Africa will probably save more lives than the prevention of "potential" lives.
posted by David at 10:00 pm
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It's ironic that some one whose name is being put forward for saint-hood has contributed to the deaths of so many people in Africa
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I welcome people to comment on my blog but may I take this opportunity to remind people that this blog is for intellectual arguments not comments that have no respect for and deliberately offend other peoples beliefs. In this case as much as I do not agree with the pope a comment was made about the pope that was not appropriate and has now been deleted.
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