AFTER many years of involvement in the New Zealand national and international pro-life movement, I was honoured by our New Zealand Catholic bishops to take part on the 1st NZ Bio-Ethic Auckland/Waikato Board – since then this has united to the Wellington “Nathaniel NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre”.
During all those years – and as of one of many such issues – I very often dealt with condoms and AIDS.
However, it is not very often that I have come across a Vatican moral theologian speaking out (Fr Juan Perez, CL 5/6/11) and clarifying so clearly the Church’s teaching on the use of condoms, which he says “‘deforms’ of the conjugal act”.
In all my years of pro-life experiences, I have, for good reasons, very seldom used the Church’s moral “counteractions”.
Instead I simply adopted a proven scientific clarification, that condoms are unreliable and cannot restrict most of the smaller 45 STD disease-causing micro-cells.
And yet, the AIDS virus is 450 times smaller than a human sperm. Since then condoms are now distributed worldwide – it’s a multibillion-dollar industry.
One must be simple minded to believe that condoms protect one from the spreading of STDs and AIDS.
Science technology has always proven otherwise.
J.M. VINK
Hervey Bay, Qld
