Thursday, March 18, 2010

Food, water, shelter, and contraceptives

The Conservative government of Canada has announced that it will provide a large amount of support and help for people in less developed countries. This includes food, water, shelter, and other necessities for life. However, many MPs are angry because Harper's plan does not include condoms, sponges and spermaticide jellies. According to his opponents, these "safe" sex products are just as important as food and clean water.

It's important to note that the government has not specifically refused to include contraceptives, it just wasn't in the first plan. Of course, outrage ensued.

Canadians have been propagandized for so long that many believe contraception is essential for survival. Without contraception, the story goes, we would become mere beasts with no hope for peace. Contraception is what separates us from the animal kingdom.

Organizations have falsely believed that condoms can solve all the world's problems. If a country is war-torn and lives are desvastated, the best way to solve this is to make contraception very accessible. Of course! I would like to know who the condom companies hire to do marketing, they do a really amazing job.

When one of the most devastating earthquakes in history hit Haiti a few months ago, the first thing Planned Parenthood did was raise money to buy condoms, and oral contraception, not to mention material to promote abortion. Forget clean water, food, and medical help, all the people of this devastated land need are condoms. How could I not see that!

I always learned that the basic needs for survival are food, water, clothing, and shelter, but now it seems contraception has somehow made its way to the top of the list.

Many claim that more condoms can alleviate problems in poor countries. In fact, they cannot. More access to contraception actually increases the rates of STIs, abortion, etc. This has been seen in Africa. Uganda is the only country to promote abstinence and commitment. The others promoted greater condom use. Condoms are easier to find in Africa than clean drinking water. All provided by wealthy industrialized countries. So what happened? Uganda was one of the rare success stories in the fight against AIDS.

When the Pope made comments to this effect, many reacted with outrage. You mean to say contraception and abortion are not the solutions to all the world's problems? Did I hear that correctly? But this clearly goes against modern thinking! The pope's comments were also backed up by the head of Harvard's AIDS program.

Just imagine: a dying man approaches a Liberal or NPD MP. What is their first reaction? Water, shelther, food? No, contraception. This is ridiculous. Of all human needs, even for those advocating contraception, condoms and other such things should be at least #50 on the list of things people need to be healthy. It's pretty sad when your political platform is based around the culture of death. People who espouse that culture tend to view everything through their culture-of-death glasses and they will stop at nothing to further their ideology.

It's shocking that instead of backing up the Prime Minister with his support of the less-fortunate, many politicians have decided to focus on contraception. This is while people die from hunger, lack of clean water, war, and disease. Contraception doesn't reduce or eliminate disease, it makes it worse.

For once, these politicians ought to seek ways to help the needy, rather than try to push their culture of death policies.

Oh, and congratulations to Stephen Harper and his government: Way to go!

29 comments:

  1. Can you please include some references for pretty much everything you wrote?

    Because you're wrong on pretty much everything.

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  2. You're an idiot. Just because the Internet gives you the opportunity to voice your opinion does not mean your opinion is worth hearing. Remember that.

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  3. "More access to contraception actually increases the rates of STIs," - Can you support this with evidence, your personal conjecture and generalizations aside?

    "abortion," - Access to contraception would decrease the rates of abortion because if used properly and the general public properly educated, women would not be fertilized.

    "etc." - What else?

    "This has been seen in Africa." - Can you support this statement with evidence, your personal conjecture and generalizations aside?

    "Uganda is the only country to promote abstinence and commitment." - Can you support this statement with evidence, your personal conjecture and generalizations aside?

    "Condoms are easier to find in Africa than clean drinking water." - Can you support this statement with evidence, your personal conjecture and generalizations aside?

    "Uganda was one of the rare success stories in the fight against AIDS." - Can you support this statement with evidence, your personal conjecture and generalizations aside?

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  4. I hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but you really should link to some sort of credible study if you are going to say things like "More access to contraception actually increases the rates of STIs, abortion, etc."

    Additionally, even if condoms are available in these countries, it doesn't mean quality sex education is. You can't throw condoms at people who don't know how to use them properly and expect results. The Catholic Church is a barrier to proper sex education in the developing world, and thus a barrier to the eradication of HIV. If you were not blinded by outdated, ridiculous dogmas, you would be properly ashamed of your church.

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  5. What are you high? These people have AIDs, not a case of the sniffles, you are not entitled to your own facts buddy...

    Consistent and correct use of male latex condoms can reduce (though not eliminate) the risk of STD transmission. To achieve the maximum protective effect, condoms must be used both consistently and correctly. Inconsistent use can lead to STD acquisition because transmission can occur with a single act of intercourse with an infected partner. Similarly, if condoms are not used correctly, the protective effect may be diminished even when they are used consistently. The most reliable ways to avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are to abstain from sexual activity or to be in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner. However, many infected persons may be unaware of their infections because STDs are often asymptomatic or unrecognized.

    -http://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/latex.htm

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  6. What these people need is less religious proselytizing and more damned food (including the means to produce food like water, livestock, seeds), shelter, and protection from disease, including bug nets for malaria and condoms for HIV. Leave your myopic religious ignorance out of matters of life and death. Jesus would be ashamed.

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  7. [Citation Needed]

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  8. "More access to contraception actually increases the rates of STIs". That's like saying more access to food actually increases the rate of starvation. This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard somebody say. It takes some real effort to be this ignorant.

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  9. so less protected sex equals what? god being happy? so as long as ppl are pumpin out babies never mind if their gonna starve or whatever so long as they pop outta mom then it's cool. i suppose the source of the problem is beyond you. you supposed solutions are not solutions but rather a "u did't follow the rules we made up so nah nah na nah na" you people make me sick. u don't care about a solution, all u care about is if it follow ur make believe book.

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  11. Since citation is not being used:

    100% of Catholic priests molest children.

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  12. Neither the Pope nor anyone else associated with the Catholic Church has any credibility when it comes to matters involving sexual conduct. All of them have taken a vow to not participate in any sexual activity. Those that are faithful to this oath base their understanding of human sexuality on a collection of misogynistic Bronze Age documents. Those that are sexually active, appear to be exclusively forcing themselves on children. These virgins and child molesters can keep their ancient wisdom.

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  13. The only jelly that's approved by the Catholic church is Vaseline.

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  14. No one who supports the inclusion of contraceptives believes what you say they believe. However they do understand that an important part of long term development is the liberation of women from economic oppression. There are many different factors involved in this complicated process, but a part of it is giving women the tools required to avoid being serially impregnated from the time they're 15. No one supports the distribution of contraception believes its a panacea for all Africa's ill's, but rather as a small but important part of the overall effort to catalyze development.

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  15. Lies like the ones you're espousing now are responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths from HIV/AIDS and other STDs around the world, and the overpopulation problems blighting many African countries leading to wars and ethnic violence due to competition for scarce resources. All in all, people like you have killed millions with your lies. You should be ashamed of yourself, people like you spewing baseless rhetoric such as this sicken me.

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  17. Please use condoms. People like you should never breed.

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  18. Uganda actually uses a multi-tiered approach to fighting HIV. The program is called the ABC program (abstinence, be faithful, use condoms), and is successful due to education and implementation of contraception as well as promotion of monogamy. It should be noted however, that without the C part of the program it would not be nearly as successful. Evidence for this comes from the Rakai province, one of the hardest hit by the HIV epidemic.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-02-24/news/17359064_1_hiv-infections-condom-rakai

    http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/06/5/gr060501.html

    Additionally, ABC alone is not the whole of why Uganda has been successful. Effective sexual education and open discussion have gone far in helping control the rates of HIV.

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  19. "More access to contraception actually increases the rates of STIs"
    is that why your clergymen don't wear them while f***ng little boys? seriously, this article is a wonderful display of ignorance and what organized religion does to a mind.

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  20. You sir are wholly misinformed and I really hope one day you can break free of the shackles of religious ignorance and actually open up a medical journal, a life science book, or ANY study EVER done of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and other third world countries. You would see that EVERYTHING you just said it wrong.

    The Catholic church is contributing to another holocaust in Africa by denouncing AIDS and saying that it can actually increase the rate of spread. We aren't talking about 6million we are talking about tens of millions of people dying a slow, painful death. All because of religious ignorance, misinformation and lack of proper care.

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  21. There is something seriously wrong in your brain. The basic laws of logic do not seem to operate inside your head. Given this fact, you should ask for help in reformulating your arguments and your beliefs.

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  22. This seems to be lacking any citing of sources and/or facts it appears this "article" is totally opinion and not based in the real world. I encourage you to do some research for your next "article" to avoid any further embarrassment.

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  23. Phil,
    Thank you for writing this! I was feeling a bit off today, and after reading this I am certain there are dumber people than me. You have boosted my self esteem greatly and for that I am thankful.

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  24. Okay, Lets everyone relax now. I have a nice link to a website that PROMOTES contraceptive use on most parts of its website. If you all take the time to read the Q & A about Africa, you will see NOWHERE, that the use of condoms is a suggested way of eliminating aids in Africa. Eliminating poverty, ending instability in war torn regions, the end of rape as a weapon in genocides, and various other things are listed.

    Again, this website promotes contraceptive use elsewhere, so I'm sure that all you people bashing Phil will agree with the website on most things. Now, all you need to do to understand Phil's point, is agree with the website on the African Q & A. Let's see how that goes!

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  25. oops, here's the link

    http://www.avert.org/aids-africa-questions.htm

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  26. in a country of starving people one of the best ways to help get rid of the problem is to control population growth, this can be accomplished through the use of condoms, not a magic book. your living in a false reality if you think people aren't going have sex outside of marriage with or without condoms. it's people like you spreading false information that reduce the effectiveness of condom programs by going out and saying that the don't work or that their wrong to use. trying to make these people conform to version of morality isn't helping them it's killing them.

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