Condoms and Africa

[FightingFat]

This is the old chesnut we all get thrown at us. I’m currently engaged in a discussion that revolves around the fact that condoms would reduce the need for abortion. Anyone got any good sources to the contrary?

 

[FightingFat]

This is a good example of the argument I am talking about-

guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,1502607,00.html

Bad as this situation is, worse is on the way. Emboldened by their many successes under the Bush administration, anti-abortion activists are going after contraception, too. Feminists warned this would happen. After all, one of the two major engines of the anti-choice movement is the Catholic church, which opposes birth control, even condoms to protect against HIV. The other is evangelical/fundamentalist Protestantism, which, while not opposed to birth control per se, is obsessed with confining sex to marriage.

Is it accurate that a Catholic perspective would be that no one should use birth control? Or would we choose not to use ABC, educate people as far as possible, and allow them to make their own mind up?

Sensible people continually point out that contraception is the best way to prevent abortion; logically, anti-choicers should be the pill’s most fervent champions. That they refuse to join hands with pro-choicers to support birth control and fact-based sex education shows that their real target is not abortion but modern roles for women, sexual freedom, perhaps even sex itself.

I love the “Sensible people” thing!