22 May 2007

Condom Con Week

This week Family Planning and Durex have joined in promoting New Zealand’s first ever condom week. Condoms are a con perpetrated on our community. It was Nazi Germanys propaganda Minister, Joseph Gobbles who said if you tell a lie often enough people will believe you. For many years the New Zealand Family Planning Association has been promoting the falsehood that condoms provide safe sex.

This falsehood is a threat to the health of teenagers and to public health. Condom week provides the Family Planning Association [FPA] with the opportunity of promoting their humanistic and hedonistic ideology on the community. It also provides Durex with the opportunity of promoting their product.

The press release of FPA and Durex states that condoms are “the most reliable source of protection against STIs, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies.” This is demonstrably false. What is the evidence: The World Health Organisation Bulletin, June 2004: No published prospective study has found protection against human papillomavirus [cervical cancer/warts/ HPV] infection”
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2004: A study of 4314 participants who visited STD clinics found consistent use of condoms still resulted in an infection rate of 82% compared against those who did not use condoms.

We have an escalating epidemic in STDs in New Zealand. Condoms offer no protection against gonorrhoea for females- and only partial protection for males. Human Papilloma Virus [HPV] is the biggest factor in cancer of the cervix, a potentially fatal disease. Condoms give no protection from HPV. Condoms offer no protection against Chlamydia.

Genital herpes is painful and incurable. It risks fatal infections to babies born of infected mothers. Condoms offer no effective protection against herpes. The Abortion Supervisory Committee, reported to Parliament in their 2006 report to Parliament that 4903 women who had an abortion in 2005 were using condoms at the time of conception. This is the price in human lives for so called “safe sex.”

The false and dangerous message of” safe sex with condoms” is a lie promoted by the Ministry of health and FPA. Why does the government continue to fund FPA? In 2006 the government gave FPA more than $8million to promote a programme that is undermining public health. When is the government going to fund abstinence education that is the proven and only way to prevent STIs and unplanned pregnancies? Why to is the secular media generally silent on this serious threat to public health?

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