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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (19565)	7/28/2001 8:05:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 82486

I wonder who had the death wish that led to that.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (19565)	7/30/2001 1:47:16 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

S Africa's Bishops Condemn Use Of Condoms To Prevent AIDS PRETORIA (AP)--Roman Catholic bishops in southern Africa strongly condemned Monday HIV prevention programs that recommend condom use, but said married couples with the virus could use condoms in very limited circumstances. The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said the widespread promotion of condom use was "an immoral and misguided weapon in our battle against HIV/AIDS," according to a document released at the end of the bishops' annual meeting. "Condoms may even be one of the main reasons for the spread of HIV/AIDS. Apart from the possibility of condoms being faulty or wrongly used, they contribute to the breaking down of self control and mutual respect," said the statement, read by Cardinal Wilfrid Napier to reporters Monday. Prevention programs should replace condom distribution programs with efforts to promote abstention, Napier said. "This is God's way. Choose life. Don't choose the way of sin or destruction," he said. However, married couples could use condoms if one or both them was infected and they abstained from sex while the woman was ovulating, Napier said. This way, the condom would not prevent the creation of life. "This is one possibility during which the condom could be used in a morally responsible situation," Napier said. The Vatican had no immediate comment. The bishops' limited proposal for condom use would have little impact without Vatican approval. In his 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae," "Of Human Life," Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church's ban on contraception, asserting an inseparable link between the unifying and reproductive dimensions of sexual intercourse. That position has been attacked in recent years by some governments and AIDS activists who say the church's blanket ban on condom use has hindered efforts to contain the AIDS pandemic. The southern African bishops' debate was sparked by a proposal for the conference to sanction condom use as part of a wider program to stop the spread of HIV in Africa, where more than 25 million people are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. However, the conference, which includes bishops from South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, rejected that measure. (END) DOW JONES NEWS 07-30-01 01:45 PM