Friday, June 03, 2005

African Females: AIDS, Pregnancy & Poverty

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that there are several issues that I am completely at odds with when it comes to the Catholic Church... here is yet another one: The Church's absolute refusal to allow people to use birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancies and condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV, especially in Africa. AIDS is reversing the trends that were improving for girls in Africa. W/12 million children orphaned in sub-Saharan Africa because of AIDS, suffering abounds among boys as well as girls. But orphaned girls tend to fare worse, relief officials say, because they traditionally hold a lower status in African society, are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation and, for anatomical reasons, are more likely than boys to contract HIV. Orphaned and impoverished by the deaths of parents, African girls are being propelled into sex at shockingly early ages to support themselves, their siblings and, all too often, their own children. They are trapped into lives of becoming orphans, raising their siblings, becoming sexually exploited, pregnant, and usually infected w/HIV... but Catholic Doctrine insists that preventing unwanted pregnancies, horrific lives of poverty and starvation, and AIDS is not what God wants... geeze... sometimes God can be so selfish, huh?
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