I want your opinion on MSF

[Houro]

I’ve been supporting Médecins Sans Frontières Australia for a few years now with monthly contributions. I’ve also been training with the intention of working for them in 2012. It has come to my attention though (and I always knew that being a secular organistaion that this may be a possibility) that they promote the use of contraception. This is from their website.

**Access to contraception and family planning services **
*This focuses on limiting the number of unwanted pregnancies and thereby helps reduce the number of clandestine abortions. Contraception and family planning can also prevent mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and reduce the risk of malnutrition. The WHO estimates that if women not wanting children used effective means of contraception, up to 100,000 maternal deaths could be avoided per year.

“MSF generally includes family planning services in all its primary health care programmes, adapting them to the local culture. Family planning should enable women, and men, to decide if they want to have children, when they want to have them, and how many. It also limits the number of clandestine abortions resulting from non-desired pregnancies, thereby reducing maternal mortality.” Christine Lebrun, Head of Reproductive Health Programmes at MSF.*

Should I be supporting MSF? They do such an amazing job and assist people in situations when other NGO’s have pulled out. What do you think?

Blessings,

Patrcik

 

[rskempf]

Supporting this organization is the same as cooperating with grave evil.

What were you thinking?

Many of these organizations that are not completely catholic, have an agenda to spread contraception worldwide and especially in underdeveloped areas.

See the latest CIA episode on RealCatholicTV.com (the one about the environment).

Start doing some homework and begin by throwing out a lot of your current news outlets. Keep this site though - Catholic.com.

 

[Houro]

Thanks for the quick reply rskempf.

I guess the only thing that is stopping me from ending my commitment to MSF is that fact that they go where others do not. If there were Catholic organisations that were as effective as MSF then I would support them, but I feel that MSF is at the forefront of what they do and until a Catholic organisation steps up and does a similar job, should we therefore not support them, despite their stance on contraception?

Thanks