Sex and the Holy City
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In the West, many Catholics ignore the Church's teachings on sex. But in poorer countries the words of the Church still matter, whether spoken from the pulpit or through a government minister.
Pope John Paul believed everyone - not just the world's billion Catholics - should follow the Vatican's teachings. And he tried to make sure the world listened, becoming a key player in the bitter global debate over women's rights and reproductive health.
In this unique documentary, BBC reporter Steve Bradshaw investigates how the late Pope, who tried to act in the best interests of women, came to be accused of ruining so many lives.
'Deeply disturbing...When religious doctrine is blindly invoked and scientific fact twisted beyond recognition to put millions of lives at risk, then the integrity of the Roman Catholic church in all matters should rightly be called into question.' Tony Kerridge, Marie Stopes International
'SEX AND THE HOLY CITY does an excellent job explaining the origins of the Catholic Church's current misguided and often just plain inaccurate teachings related to sexuality, especially concerning contraception and abortion. It also illustrates -- often very poignantly -- how disconnected these teachings are from the realities of modern life. That disconnection has a tragic impact, especially on some of the world's most vulnerable people. Viewing the film is truly an eye-opening -- if deeply disturbing -- experience.' Merrill Wolf, Senior Associate, Public Information, Ipas
'Sex and the Holy City exposed one of the most shameful secrets of the Vatican's War on modern sexuality. It exposed the Vatican's willingness to lie about the effectiveness of condoms, to claim that condoms cause rather than prevent HIV/AIDS. From high ranking Cardinals to parish priests in Africa, some church leaders would rather see others die from AIDS than change their minds about sex. The film is a wake up call to the world's Catholics and the public health community, pointing out that flawed religious teachings can be dangerous to your health and that anyone who cares about human life must challenge religion when it does damage rather than good.' Frances Kissling, President, Catholics for a Free Choice
'Sex and the Holy City would make a good discussion starter in college classes where human rights, women's rights, or health issues are debated. General library collections are also a potential home for it... An interesting look at a topic that has a global reach.' Mary Northup, Educational Media Reviews Online
'Recommended for selective high school and academic libraries.' Library Journal
Citation
Main credits
Bradshaw, Steve (reporter)
Woods, Chris (film producer)
Other credits
Camera, Dean Johnson, Nick Hughes, Ian Kennedy; film editor, Rob Moore; editor, Mike Robinson.
Distributor subjects
Abortion; Anthropology; Developing World; Ethics; Geography; Global Issues; HIV/AIDS; Health; Human Rights; Humanities; Population; Religion; Reproductive Rights; Social Justice; Sociology; Women's StudiesKeywords
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Imagine a land which ideal Love is
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a reality and ideals sex Simultaneous climax
between a loving couple and in this land.
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All couples America.
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No barriers to perfect self getting
no barriers to child birth
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no condoms IUDs or pills abortions illegal
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to this land does not
exist but these ideals
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do in the work and thought of Carol
voy t1 now Pope John Paul the second.
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This is a film about what happens
when those ideals clash with reality.
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It is the story of two school girls and
Latin-America raped by their father and given
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no choice but to have It is
the story of Catholic nuns
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in Africa telling people with aids not to
use condoms because they have holes in
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them and in Asia it\'s the story of a mother
of nine who don\'t use contraception.
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The Catholic church says it\'s
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wrong all lives affected by the
beliefs of John Paul the Second.
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Due this week and the holy
city of Rome celebrates
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25-years as leader of the
welds billion Catholics.
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Although frail is still leading a campaign
against contraception and abortion.
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There is inspired by gratitude and
hostility tonight we investigate how
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the man who idealized women came to be accused
of promoting beliefs that can ruin lives
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Welcome to molecule coup
remote town in the heart of
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Nicaraguan like other Latin American
countries overwhelmingly Catholic.
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This is a matcher country of
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often distorted sexual values
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were official estimates suggest one
in three women has been physically or
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sexually abused and where age and close
relationships sometimes low barrier to abuse
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We met for school girls all left
with babies after being abused or
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abandoned in Catholic
Nicaragua abortions or
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interruptions are almost impossible
to obtain within the law
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the Catholic Church believes destroying any
life even a fertilized egg is immoral.
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The girls had no choice but
to carry their children to
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term Sarah E. So
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she was made pregnant by his stepfather
now on the run after rape charges.
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She\'s just 14 did you think of
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of completing the pregnancy to do
you think of having an interruption
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Yes I thought of having one I thought of
terminating a pregnancy Miriam is heavily
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pregnant by a young man who has abandoned her
she already has two other children by him
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my opinion on abortion
or some people say it\'s
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bad because you lose a child but
my opinion is that it\'s better
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not to do it because terminating
a pregnancy is a sin Franciska
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and Lucinda assist is 1516 Both had small
babies after their father rake them.
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He\'s now in jail.
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So lean but I got pregnant by
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the Father but I was ashamed that it
was my own father who got me pregnant.
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Afterwards I had stay like that
until I had it and I\'m ashamed.
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Yep where he yellow ABC now
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He threw me out of the house.
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My father and mother and everyone made things
difficult for me to bring my child here
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did you think of having an interruption or
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not tambien me too.
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We met the girls and a
woman\'s health clinic run by
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Dorothy Granada She says
such cases are not unusual.
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Sometimes pregnant girls who can\'t
get abortions even younger.
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So when you come across a girl 12 or 13 or
14 who\'s having to carry her father\'s child.
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Very awful.
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It\'s very terrible.
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It\'s very terrible.
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We cry a lot in this clinic.
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Some men Dorothy Granada says take
more care of their cattle and
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their women and she says some pregnant
women get a raw deal from the state
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Although they kinda ply to have legal
abortions If their lives are in danger cue
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succeed or the start of the Pope\'s
reign about a 100 women a year
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got permission for these so-called
therapeutic abortions church pressure is cut
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that number close to 0 the
therapeutic abortion simply does
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not work in this country and that\'s
because I believe the threats of
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the Roman Catholic hierarchy and physicians
are simply afraid to exercise their right.
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The Catholic Church in
Nicaraga goes back almost 500
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years Cardinal abandon a brother
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who has wielded the power of the
church here for over three decades.
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He\'s just helped persuade the
government to Pope copies of
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a sex education guide that mentioned
abortion and contraception.
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He\'s a political player press and
cabinet ministers Hang on his words.
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Today about Nicaraguan
troops in Iraq to Gaza.
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The cardinal told us he
couldn\'t see why it should
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ever be unsafe for a young
girl to deliver children.
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He did well there is a case
something that happened in
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El Salvador if my memory
serves me right Child age
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nine gave birth without
harming the child meaning
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the mother and without damage
to the baby should conceived.
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So in this slide it\'s not the norm for a
child of nine years to give birth but if
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this child had the misfortune to be raped
by someone and then became pregnant.
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It\'s always possible according
to doctors who are experts in
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this field to say both lives whales and
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Marcella Bobi thus quadrotors.
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But earlier this year
one-family took the cardinal on
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provoking a national Raul that\'s split
Nicaragua Capture the headlines
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for months Maria and
Francisco\'s daughter rasa not
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her real name had been raped and was
pregnant at the time she was just eight.
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Yeah when we met in the capital
Managua Francisco and Maria
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both Catholics told me why they decided
to seek an abortion for Rosser
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despite the opposition
of the church Arizona.
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She wasn\'t like someone whose body
is capable of surviving pregnancy.
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When they become pregnant.
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She would never have been able
to get to that stage because she
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was A child let\'s face it
you run the living room.
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So we had the pregnancy terminated
because she didn\'t want to die
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leaves as the Church protested and lawyers
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argued Ross\'s parents took her
for a clamber Stein abortion.
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While many non-Catholics
are opposed to abortion
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to here it was the Catholic
Church that led the protests.
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It says Ross\'s parents and
doctors have excommunicated
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themselves risking
damnation Rosser though is
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excused she\'s still would have gum in
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their areas a Church law canon
1398 Which states that if anyone
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commits an act of abortion and the abortion
actually takes place that person then falls
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ipso facto under the banner
of excommunication yessum.
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I wasn\'t the only one I did
feel very bad about what\'s
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church was thinking or said to hell with
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the church I don\'t want to
have anything to do with
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the ministers or Princeton
or church I want to know.
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I mean I mean I\'m not interested
in what the cardinal says
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in what he says or does not
say about us or about this.
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He doesn\'t have the right because
only God connects communicators.
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I seem to remember that there is
only one Son of God on earth.
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Not to Get us yak in paragraph two
feet this time for the cardinal.
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For many in Nicaragua Ross\'s
parents have become heroes and
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ordinary coupled defining the church
and making a stand of women\'s rights.
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Other than the curricular also
define the ban on abortion.
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Welcome to the world the
gorilla or abortionists.
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We visited this underground abortion
clinic run by women doctors.
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It\'s relatively safe absolutely illegal to
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avoid after ten years in jail
the doctors wearing a mask.
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No cumbersome We only discuss it in
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a very secret way because for women
this is an illegal procedure and we
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doctors could be put in prison for it
without a doubt it\'s thought that could be
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as many as 60 thousand illegal abortions
and Nicaragua every year running
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more hair to these are
women who have absolutely
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nowhere else to turn to
economically speaking.
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Women who had been abused women who have
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no access to any kind or method of
contraception you want what would
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happen to the women and girls
who come here at this clinic
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wasn\'t for them and I think
that if we did not exist.
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I think that there would be many more maternal
fatalities What I did less than deaths
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of women who don\'t make
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it to an underground clinic often end
up in Managua is Women\'s Hospital.
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After botched backstreet abortions.
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It\'s estimated that up to Warren for
pregnancies and Matt in America and
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an illegal abortion and that worldwide
over 70 thousand women die from
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illegal abortions every year
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in Rome the rao ever nine-year-old
Ross\'s abortion was followed
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closely Cardinal in charge of
promoting Vatican doctrine on
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the family will abandon the
graduate told us that he believes
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that if a nine-year-old girl is
pregnant she should not have
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an abortion is that the position
of the Vatican he artisanal
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men tiers here we Quila
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engender I have followed these events
personally I have written to the cardinal
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personally to express to
him in all sincerity and
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high support because public opinion was
quite confused with regard to that case
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it did not spare a thought to defending
the rights of unborn babies who are
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people who have a right to live the Vendee
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EDTA Bambi Nikkei Shauna
personae ganos ED to Harvey
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very legato and ideally in Quantico ELA
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request our Mina the Church wanted to help
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this young girl who should have
been helped up until the birth of
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a child but it also came out and he stated
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the truth and the truth is
that human life is inviolable.
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And Dato de la already done it already
Achila veto my name you\'ll have really.
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But trying to stop all
abortions is just one way
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the Vatican is trying to impose
its sexual values across
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the world It\'s a campaign
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that draws passion and motivation from the
Pope from Poland John Paul the Second.
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And the vision of womanhood rooted in
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his personal history in kelvin
area To the Pope\'s hometown.
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This setting off on a burial.
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The burial of the Virgin Mary
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74 years ago this ceremony helped
shape the Pope\'s vision of womanhood.
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The energy carried miles to its final resting
place utter devotion to the ultimate metal.
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But John Paul the Virgin was
to be the image Ideal woman
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a mother to all and to him when
age-date who lost his own mother.
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When the Popes mother died and one day
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his father took him here to California and
he pointed to the shrine of Our Lady.
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So the picture violator of
caldaria and he said Carl from now
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on she will be your mother and
she took it so seriously.
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He came and he talked to her
like he would talk to his mom.
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John pulls taught and writing
would be haunted by this image of
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Perfect Motherhood As a young
priest Carol voting were
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started in clack of the city at once
modern and medieval critics say like
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his thinking he took
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a special interest and the philosophy
of love the family marriage and sex.
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He gave friends and students
and his flock advice on
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relationships like Carol turn off ski here
on the left with The Young Pope to be.
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His idea was to create an atmosphere of
cooperation and of responsibility of boys to
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girls Chanel This is kind of preparation to
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the marriage He helped
bring couples together
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yes couples who ended up being
married yes did they stay married.
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Yes yes of course yes these enduring
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marriages he\'d helped nurture where
evidence to the future Pope that
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conservative catholic ideals of sex and love
can work in reality in 1960 now a bishop.
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He wrote an astonishing me friend
book about love and marriage.
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It\'s suggested that for a married man
and woman climax must be reached and
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harmony that he did add
as far as possible but
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although this was the age
of the pill 40-watt also
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condemned contraception
pills IUDs and condoms
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Immoral they said all
harmful for the health
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incredibly as it now seems the Vatican
almost endorsed the pill in the 60s.
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After all there was no explicit ban
on contraception in the Bible.
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But the then Pope fold
six received a gift from
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Khrushchev\'s Carol voting law a report
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attacking contraception on
promoting Natural Family Planning.
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The dismay of liberal Catholics put pull
the six using arguments for TOO had
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advocated reaffirmed the battle
contraception Carol void
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T1 would be made cognitive
about grateful pull the
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six that stood against the
tide of Catholic opinion and
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run At once elected pope
25 years ago this week.
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He would use his extraordinary popularity.
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To stand against the tide of world opinion
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condemning contraception and the
trend to legalize abortion.
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But even among the married Polish couples
living the new Popus dream of love and
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responsibility there were doubters Carol
Karnofsky and his wife now with a family.
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We\'re finding the ban on
contraception and obstacle to
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love and make an appeal to their friend And
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your argument why this was that
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sometimes even when Catholics
artificial contraception can hope love.
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Yes yes we share an idea which
many many fewer sensor of course.
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My wife wrote a long letter to
him and we discussed this in
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a separate discussion Vatican
and she was very comprehensive.
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I mean if he\'s if he\'s
actually understood very well
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our difficulties but he didn\'t
think that he can change
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principles the pope suggested
the couple could find
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another confessor but perhaps Reminder
of the Pope\'s unmovable convictions.
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As well as sympathetic data\'s
there have been harsh critics of
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John Paul\'s vision of love
and responsibility on
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their view here\'s a man who had
never been close to a woman and
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so fell victim not to
ideals but to stereotypes.
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A vision of women always defined
by the reproductive powers
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mother wife temptress perhaps the
Pope\'s most powerful opponent
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for many years was Nafis Sadik former head
of the United Nations Population Fund.
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She had a face-to-face meeting
with the Pope in 1994
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to discuss women\'s rights and church
teaching I hope you can spend I
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was telling him that the church could
do more to educate men because I said
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the church could really play
a very positive role because
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many women became pregnant on
because they wanted to but
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because their spouses impose
themselves on them he said
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that you don\'t you\'re saying that
the irresponsible behavior of
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men is caused by women that you think the
responsible behavior of men is caused by
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women yes those were his words
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those wise words yes you came out
with this bond to bond meeting with
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the Pope believing that
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the Pope\'s understanding of the plight
of women in poor countries was born.
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Was very Inadequate I mean he really didn\'t
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understand the situation of girls and women
in spite of the fact that he has rabbit.
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To so many countries the Vatican can
point to the Pope\'s support since
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his days and crack off for women\'s right to
equality to work and to freedom from abuse.
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But his critics say his
conservative views are having
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consequences beyond the
lives of individual women
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Metro Manila a 21st century
Asian mega city of
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over 11 million people and the Eastern
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Front in the battle between
Catholic sexual ideals and
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the values of And analyzed culture we
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came here to the one Catholic country in
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Asia to look at the effects
of the Pope\'s teachings and
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contraception effects
his critics say you can
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see in the streets in the
Philippines there are
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over 40 thousand street kids
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and yet there was often incredible ignorance
about both control and some bizarre myths.
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For example about the uses of Colgate.
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When me and my boyfriend
ran out of condoms.
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He\'d insist we use toothpaste
as a contraceptive.
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He told me it was Colgate His
friend\'s wife use toothpaste
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and he said she never got pregnant.
00:21:12.530 --> 00:21:16.668
When we had sex I was so an easy
and uncomfortable because it
00:21:16.669 --> 00:21:21.810
felt spicy and hot and it turned
out that I did get pregnant.
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Call her Claudia she already has one
child that has lost another little by
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the age of 14 we met in a clinic started
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by women who want to provide better
sex education and contraceptive
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services Claudia wasn\'t the
only girl who do use toothpaste
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for birth control side it was bizarre
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but apparently and if they\'re if the
manner advising into other men it\'s
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bubbling not just one person Case of
cloud-a illustrates very strongly how
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how much of a neither is
in this Catholic country
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for adolescent sexuality
and reproductive services.
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Why is it particularly difficult
in the cavalry country.
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Well because even sexuality
education is prohibited and even
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efforts to institutionalize
sex education and
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contraceptive care that\'s being opposed
very strongly by the Catholic Church.
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There are already 80 million
people in the Philippines
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and the population is expected
to double in three decades.
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Yet the Catholic Church opposes
contraception and wants to leave
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sex education largely to families Here
00:22:33.969 --> 00:22:41.754
even the statues of Christ seem to jostle
for space in the Philippines Congress
00:22:41.755 --> 00:22:45.073
some liberal Catholics or
defining the church urging
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a reluctant President to Bank a bill
promoting sex education of contraception.
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Mr. Speaker Your Honor.
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I feel that it would be best for
President Arroyo to read and
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understand their reproductive health
care bills yourself rather than to
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listen and be alarmed by panic
Asians or are blinded by
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their personnel religious biases and
camps at reproductive health care law
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that is pro-life And it pro choice as well
00:23:19.270 --> 00:23:23.419
but with the church warning it
makes shy and I\'m seat politicians
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at the next election if they back
the reproductive rights bill.
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It has little chance of success you
didn\'t have to step far outside Congress.
00:23:37.510 --> 00:23:42.559
Just see what ignorance about sex
and lack of contraception can lead
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to a city so overcrowded that even
a railroad track gets called home.
00:23:51.484 --> 00:23:54.600
No wrong side of the tracks here
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Now the congresswoman took
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us to her constituency outside Manila.
00:24:08.435 --> 00:24:11.119
To see the kind of woman she wants to help.
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She introduced as to merit you.
00:24:13.684 --> 00:24:18.858
Seven children in a tiny shack plus one
working and another put out to adoption.
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Thank you Daryl malnourished.
00:24:22.130 --> 00:24:25.519
They\'ll like Lend-Lease
true has a nursing degree.
00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:27.708
Think some also have TB.
00:24:27.709 --> 00:24:35.709
So tell me telling me names and
that only valid Valley boys
00:24:37.189 --> 00:24:45.189
do But how much space do you have to
bring your kids in the inner down space
00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.153
can save them harder rule you in
00:24:48.154 --> 00:24:54.798
special war and this is through space
and this is the whole tell me.
00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:59.478
Did you intend to have that many children
in London with the Alamo take Aqiba
00:24:59.479 --> 00:25:04.458
when unfamiliar. It was not planned.
00:25:04.459 --> 00:25:12.459
Was if I only wanted 34
00:25:14.390 --> 00:25:19.238
but what can we do They came one after the
other the families earnings a dollar a
00:25:19.239 --> 00:25:24.558
day Mary mother of nine Tells the
congresswoman she would use contraception.
00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:28.878
She\'s heard it\'s dangerous and the Catholic
church says it\'s wrong much to the dismay of
00:25:28.879 --> 00:25:34.069
the Catholic Congresswoman
mind kids seven still here
00:25:34.070 --> 00:25:38.998
a donor a day told by the pope no
contraception and what do you make of all
00:25:38.999 --> 00:25:46.999
this that\'s why I cannot trust this I kind
of just follow what the church is teaching.
00:25:47.569 --> 00:25:53.553
When we go back to the ethics and
morality of this all I respect life
00:25:53.554 --> 00:25:59.559
I am pro-life but what kind of life
watches mere animal existence but alive.
00:25:59.560 --> 00:26:02.419
That will bring This children.
00:26:02.420 --> 00:26:10.420
Hope there are so many people agencies and
groups playing the role of boards profits
00:26:12.844 --> 00:26:16.699
it if our profits include
the congresswoman and
00:26:16.700 --> 00:26:20.298
the priestess her old confessor
he wants to reproductive health
00:26:20.299 --> 00:26:27.619
bill scrapped dictate things of
house bill or T1 then they go
00:26:27.620 --> 00:26:30.379
against the very tracing
a Sunday church that we
00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:36.839
propagate day go against the very
essence of the Catholic drift can pay.
00:26:39.820 --> 00:26:42.438
Isn\'t this the church interfering and
00:26:42.439 --> 00:26:46.158
politics I don\'t believe so
preaching from the pulpit and
00:26:46.159 --> 00:26:52.069
politics politics because we
00:26:52.070 --> 00:26:58.278
are supposed to speak about the truth
this is our prophetic role as pleased.
00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:01.938
As a church. This is our
prophetic road we have to tell
00:27:01.939 --> 00:27:06.379
our people you know what the truth
is all about so anything that has to
00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:10.819
do with moral issues rituals
addresses and it\'s not
00:27:10.820 --> 00:27:12.768
just the congresswoman
is confessor fighting
00:27:12.769 --> 00:27:16.054
the bill in Manila city the
heart of metro Manila.
00:27:16.055 --> 00:27:21.393
It\'s the man this is what we
call the haven for angels.
00:27:21.394 --> 00:27:24.108
It\'s actually a place where we bury
00:27:24.109 --> 00:27:31.683
The fetus babies we find in the
streets PT average fetuses Yes
00:27:31.684 --> 00:27:34.938
guy from garbage heaps from sidewalks of
00:27:34.939 --> 00:27:39.948
the city and claimed by
the irresponsible mothers
00:27:39.949 --> 00:27:42.769
and where they\'re placed properly and
00:27:42.770 --> 00:27:49.729
displace the mare is filling the caskets
and this crypt with aborted fetuses.
00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:53.704
Each he says the body of a
tiny places and the babies.
00:27:53.705 --> 00:27:56.959
So the fetuses are given
names yes they\'re afterly
00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.529
given names by those who
bury them here are they
00:28:00.530 --> 00:28:04.878
blessed or yes blast and then we still come
00:28:04.879 --> 00:28:10.013
up with a name Abortion
contraception evils to the Vatican
00:28:10.014 --> 00:28:14.828
the Mer De But this isn\'t his only
projects employed outside if we
00:28:14.829 --> 00:28:19.569
just declared Manila city the world\'s
first pro-life city and banned
00:28:19.570 --> 00:28:24.879
all contraceptive services from city run
clinics really self-sacrifice contraception is
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.069
negative its count their lives it\'s
00:28:27.070 --> 00:28:31.194
contraception so you do it teach it we
don\'t teach contraception in clinics.
00:28:31.195 --> 00:28:35.439
Definitely not so here we are in
a megacity growing by the day by
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:40.688
the hour and in Manila city people
can\'t get contraception and
00:28:40.689 --> 00:28:43.913
the city\'s clinics in Manila
What we are promoting is
00:28:43.914 --> 00:28:46.659
a stronger family unit we believe
00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:51.604
that contraceptive thinking abortion
All destroyers or families.
00:28:51.605 --> 00:28:58.849
So in the pro-life city we were shown
that no choice clinic IUDs pills condoms.
00:28:58.850 --> 00:29:05.539
All thrown out what\'s gone in anti
abortion posters intended to shock.
00:29:05.540 --> 00:29:11.479
Now you can have any kind of family planning
advice you want as long as it\'s natural.
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:16.459
So as I\'ve said this chart on
the first day of your ministry
00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:23.239
shot was still calendar or charting
the state of vaginal mucus.
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:27.289
The nurse in charge of the clinics
is thrilled by their Achaeans as
00:29:27.290 --> 00:29:32.298
Ben sincerely that agenda I
haven\'t seen any pills or
00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:34.789
condoms or any artificial
method here in Manila
00:29:34.790 --> 00:29:41.629
anymore in metro Manila with
contraception under threat.
00:29:41.630 --> 00:29:45.679
Thousands live from
scavenging rubbish tips and
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:51.169
Pietists the garbage mountain collapsed
three years ago killing over 300 people
00:29:51.170 --> 00:29:54.979
the church says the root cause
of this appalling poverty is
00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:58.219
not too many people it\'s
too few resources For
00:29:58.220 --> 00:30:02.089
the three showdown but
00:30:02.090 --> 00:30:06.438
women\'s groups say lack of reproductive
rights causing overpopulation.
00:30:06.439 --> 00:30:09.124
Poverty and death.
00:30:09.125 --> 00:30:14.089
I think personally that John
Paul\'s teachings are taking
00:30:14.090 --> 00:30:18.888
a toll on on people\'s lives
here that admonition
00:30:18.889 --> 00:30:23.148
against reproductive health care is
actually causing deaths of women
00:30:23.149 --> 00:30:28.920
here from unwanted pregnancy and even
from pregnancy that\'s complicated.
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:36.948
With the Vatican has its own
tissue with the threat to
00:30:36.949 --> 00:30:42.319
women Look at Metro minute
or this way if the let
00:30:42.320 --> 00:30:46.158
you and it\'s a city
00:30:46.159 --> 00:30:50.554
where women in that tens of thousands
a sexually exploited for profit.
00:30:50.555 --> 00:30:55.129
A city where catholic ideals of
love and the family undermined by
00:30:55.130 --> 00:31:00.679
Western-style hedonism and average male
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:05.988
quali Luminita going yet
the gummy i The time will
00:31:05.989 --> 00:31:12.664
come when humankind will be ashamed of
how it introduced a false lifestyle.
00:31:12.665 --> 00:31:15.919
Just as today we are
ashamed of apartheid of
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:21.168
racial discrimination and other
forms of discrimination in
00:31:21.169 --> 00:31:25.609
future times He will be ashamed
of something we managed to defend
00:31:25.610 --> 00:31:30.544
the truth a political truth a
truth imposed in parliament.
00:31:30.545 --> 00:31:34.714
Regarding the family
regarding human life sex.
00:31:34.715 --> 00:31:36.738
Where everything is permitted.
00:31:36.739 --> 00:31:39.003
Where everything is possible.
00:31:39.004 --> 00:31:47.004
Though love Emilia La veto says so due
to a permission to try posteriorly
00:31:50.950 --> 00:31:53.688
to the Pope This is a bore against
00:31:53.689 --> 00:31:57.574
the permissive society and for
a Christian ideal of love
00:31:57.575 --> 00:32:05.575
the family mother listened to his message in
person this is travelled A 120 countries.
00:32:06.610 --> 00:32:14.610
Ever. Or lie at the popes had
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.008
stayed remote in the Vatican that
even often attempt on his life Joan
00:32:22.009 --> 00:32:27.543
pull took his message to the streets
and onto the world\'s political stage
00:32:27.544 --> 00:32:30.798
at the United Nations in
New York the Vatican has
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.498
special permanent observer status because
00:32:33.499 --> 00:32:35.388
the Holy City in roomed as efficiently as
00:32:35.389 --> 00:32:40.079
state no other religious
leader is say privileged.
00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:42.438
The Vatican\'s status has given the Pope
00:32:42.439 --> 00:32:44.778
the chance to influence the
world\'s population and
00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:46.849
development policy Working with
00:32:46.850 --> 00:32:52.020
some unexpected aligns to the
irritation of liberal Catholics.
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:58.729
When I go to the United Nations and watch the
Vatican representatives operate right on
00:32:58.730 --> 00:33:04.203
the floor and I see them going up
to Libya to the Sudan to omen.
00:33:04.204 --> 00:33:06.919
To very often to Muslim countries that have
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:12.259
similar conservative views on women and
reproduction and wheeling and dealing just
00:33:12.260 --> 00:33:16.728
like every other government
official in the world God bless
00:33:16.729 --> 00:33:21.978
America reign he had a close ally in
00:33:21.979 --> 00:33:25.069
US President Ronald Reagan
was determined to end
00:33:25.070 --> 00:33:28.809
communism and support family values Now
00:33:28.810 --> 00:33:33.338
President George W. Bush a born again
Christian is reviving the alliance.
00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:35.948
He\'s pleased the pope by stopping usaid for
00:33:35.949 --> 00:33:40.089
foreign organizations the U.S.
considers is promoting abortion and by
00:33:40.090 --> 00:33:44.628
cutting off $34 million of funding for
the United Nations Population Fund in
00:33:44.629 --> 00:33:47.210
its family planning programs
00:33:48.030 --> 00:33:53.423
in Rome the ailing John Poll is still
leading the fight clearly frail.
00:33:53.424 --> 00:33:58.539
But creating new saints enforcing church
doctrine and appointing new candles will
00:33:58.540 --> 00:34:03.849
continue his work but since
the early days of his reign.
00:34:03.850 --> 00:34:08.600
The weld has been facing a
new and terrible crisis
00:34:13.720 --> 00:34:17.658
It is in Africa where the
aids pandemic has struck
00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:23.508
hardest and it\'s also where
the church is ignoring widely
00:34:23.509 --> 00:34:30.079
agreed scientific evidence on aids in Kenya
someone dies of aids every couple of
00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:34.128
minutes it\'s taught up to a fifth
of Kenyans have the HIV virus
00:34:34.129 --> 00:34:38.629
that causes aids and in Nairobi
when your loved one dies.
00:34:38.630 --> 00:34:42.348
This is where you come there is
00:34:42.349 --> 00:34:46.279
16 coffee makers in the street of
coffins a decade ago there were just
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:51.948
three the World Health Organization
00:34:51.949 --> 00:34:57.213
says the best way And aids is abstinence
or monogamy with an uninfected partner.
00:34:57.214 --> 00:34:59.509
It also recommends condoms.
00:34:59.510 --> 00:35:05.958
Which it says significantly cut the risk of
HIV transmission but the coffin makers know
00:35:05.959 --> 00:35:13.383
condoms and popping Santa many
young people don\'t trust condoms.
00:35:13.384 --> 00:35:17.403
They argue that dying of aids is
like being killed in an accident.
00:35:17.404 --> 00:35:19.339
People think condoms are not
00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:24.048
a 100% secure and they treat it
as a similar risk to a car crash.
00:35:24.049 --> 00:35:27.539
So they don\'t like using
them for those reasons
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:39.618
About a third of Kenyans are Catholic
and many clinics hospitals and
00:35:39.619 --> 00:35:44.298
schools and Catholic run but while the
church does promote abstinence and
00:35:44.299 --> 00:35:47.119
fidelity to prevent aids
it does not promote
00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:51.978
condoms Vatican doctrine
is opposed to condoms
00:35:51.979 --> 00:35:54.498
claiming they break the
link between love and
00:35:54.499 --> 00:36:00.664
procreational some priest get round this
saying it\'s a matter for the conscience.
00:36:00.665 --> 00:36:05.834
But not the archbishop
of Nairobi bad coverage.
00:36:05.835 --> 00:36:13.158
Does not advocate user Kuan gums M and
N circumstances HIV aids rod so fast
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.353
because what they because
of availability of
00:36:16.354 --> 00:36:21.738
condoms You think condoms are
causing aids yes a extreme.
00:36:21.739 --> 00:36:27.558
You\'ll give a young Kenyan
current on for hemo pour harm is
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:35.559
a license for sexuality telling
their protected NO protected.
00:36:35.570 --> 00:36:38.658
Understand or you don\'t think
anybody should we don\'t
00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:41.118
use anybody use condoms
they should not be made at
00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:43.758
all there should not be
made yes nobody should
00:36:43.759 --> 00:36:46.893
use them s. Even people who
are not Catholics who think
00:36:46.894 --> 00:36:51.333
anybody for that matter Lawson
God they affect everybody
00:36:51.334 --> 00:36:55.219
Catholic bishops in Kenya
produced this pamphlet which
00:36:55.220 --> 00:36:58.608
claims latex rubber from
which condoms are made.
00:36:58.609 --> 00:37:00.289
Does have pores through which
00:37:00.290 --> 00:37:04.159
vital sized particles can squeeze
through during intercourse.
00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:08.389
We read this to the World Health
Organization who told us it is simply
00:37:08.390 --> 00:37:12.529
not true this is scientific
nonsense isn\'t it scientifically
00:37:12.530 --> 00:37:15.199
sentence that is to those who are
00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:18.889
defective where they don\'t detect debate
has anything about defective condoms it
00:37:18.890 --> 00:37:20.898
says latex rubber from
which condoms are made
00:37:20.899 --> 00:37:23.208
has posed through if you\'re
excited to means they are
00:37:23.209 --> 00:37:30.018
not identer proof complete hang present
proof but it says latex rubber.
00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:32.358
It says that viruses could pass through
00:37:32.359 --> 00:37:36.738
latex rubber You ingrained January
known yet their scientists to lobate
00:37:36.739 --> 00:37:39.138
controversial with the greatest respect
what I\'m suggesting is that you
00:37:39.139 --> 00:37:41.539
are peddling superstition
and ignorance we are
00:37:41.540 --> 00:37:43.789
not barely England feature be proved that
00:37:43.790 --> 00:37:47.999
the only people who have been raped
and does matter in their own right.
00:37:48.100 --> 00:37:52.848
The most authoritative recent report
is by the US National Institutes of
00:37:52.849 --> 00:37:58.189
Health which concluded intact condoms
are essentially impermeable to
00:37:58.190 --> 00:38:01.699
the smallest sexually
transmitted virus and that
00:38:01.700 --> 00:38:07.248
the consistent use of male condoms
protects against HIV aids transmission
00:38:07.249 --> 00:38:13.023
the World Health Organization insists it is
imperative to continue promoting condoms for
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HIV prevention In 1996
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cardinal Asanga who was the highest
ranking Catholic and the country.
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Let us symbolic burning of condoms and
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safe sex literature in Africa millions
faced death from aids yet here
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the church is burning condones the bonfire
was attended by a top catholic gynecologist
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is Was that common bonafide
we\'ve had more than five to
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10 thousand people young people older
people symbol main from the street.
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Who myself I was there I have to be there.
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Lead by example We had discussions
about the corner we had
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scientific presentations we had is
social presentations and then we head.
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How do you hold called a we had a
symbolic Bonnie of the evil that is
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a column but does
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anyone take any notice of
the Catholic attack on
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complex a day\'s drive from
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Nairobi we\'ve come to loop back
by the shores of Lake Victoria.
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With no national health service
or welfare state in Kenya
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The Catholic Church plays a vital
role in curing carrying an educating.
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Just as it doesn\'t cost again
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sister victory in a cough runs
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the Catholic clinic and
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like other nuns here she has her own
painful experience of the aids epidemic.
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She\'s lost a brother and
assisted the virus goes a
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particularly affected here as many as four
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out of ten are thought to be
the highest infection rate
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in the world The churches and the
condom stance has a strong grip in
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the leg attached to the medical
clinic isn\'t HIV testing
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center and the man running
it has to take notice
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of what the Catholics who run
the church say about condoms.
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What I\'ll tell people bought condoms is
that when condoms are used properly.
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They prevent the spread of HIV.
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Do hang out but I don\'t
tend them out because they
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don\'t stock them here
because because we add in
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the Catholic premise and
the Catholics did not
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maybe and carry the user\'s gonna
play them encouraged the use of
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condoms that is allowed in fact
we are how do you feel about
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that He really did say something that is
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not too broad but there is
nothing we can do about
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it so what did the months say about condoms
to people who\'ve already got the virus.
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System Victorien invited us to go
and see one of their patients.
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Since statistics plane where we\'re
going in and who again to see CNBC.
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Also Mid-Atlantic does not seek scenes
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where the patient with aids was Matthias
acquire master and helper at the church to me.
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I. Inside he suggested we start with
a prayer So who went to prayer beat
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him anyway father is ill for
six years and barely able to
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afford the medicines which keep
them alive retires hopes that
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his wife Emma deem as so far
managed to escape infection.
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I first asked retires whether
his drugs were helping us.
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Yeah. So they are working it is
responding in me is expensive but I\'m
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just trying to as much as I can
system what\'s your advice to
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Mathez and his wife My advice to him
is only that they make you pray.
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Because they know there\'s nothing
they can do about it he\'s
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ready sick you derive as
accepted this tuition.
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Then they may live continue to love
each other be faithful to another
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until the day the last day on that tell
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me how that says how this has affected
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your marriage and it must be
difficult for you and your wife is
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difficult but we have to control now because
if you don\'t control you know listen
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the risk I know that we
have so many things things
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like Kodama mere continues
condom You can use call them no.
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Tell me whether the judge terrorism
that is not a 100% safe that there are
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some holes in it pulls in
the condo in their condoms.
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System what what are we to make of
mitosis story they aren\'t a 100 by
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70 useful because they can
either raptor there yes Mira
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and I see I see that there\'s some particular
condom at the White House can pass through
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that is very true okay so
I seriously say beat him
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that\'s the option he has taken not
to be with their life in order to
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control themselves is
very good is the replace
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for condoms if they are used
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properly Or if they work and they use
properly is that ever have a reason to
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use condoms and NCI doesn\'t know who sing
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them it was really
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heartbreaking that the sisters here
seem kind they seem intelligent.
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They\'re hardworking. And they could be
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the frontline in the war against
aids and yet what they\'re doing is
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pedaling rumor and superstition and the
question is really who\'s made them believe it.
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We\'d come across what the WHO calls the dangerous
allegation that condoms let HIV through
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before Occupation with Nairobi
had put his name to a pamphlet
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making the claim and we\'d heard the story
from Catholics into other continents.
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From the head of the
pro-life clinics admin in
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a city that\'s wrong with
condoms USE condoms.
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They are made of rubber so even
the aids virus can pass through
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the force of the condoms and we\'ve heard
the same claim from the cardinal in
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Nicaragua studying genetics we
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were told that aids can be transmitted
through the doctor\'s surgical glove.
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Which is less poorest than a condo
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Guangdong clearly these
extraordinary claims
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are being made by influential
Catholics across the world
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So we asked the purpose spokesman on
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the family whether they are
also the official view of
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the Vatican isn\'t the
position of the Vatican
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that the virus the HIV virus can pass
through the condom use he paid he gave
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Baden-Baden Barry Yes yes because
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because this is something that the
scientific community accepts.
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And doctors know what we
are saying you cannot talk
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about safe sex one should
speak of a human value.
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About the family and about fidelity.
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But I have spoken to the World Health
Organization They say it is simply not true that
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the HIV virus can pass
through latex from which
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condoms and they\'re running
quester work they are wrong
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about that no dialogue is
possible at that level
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scientifically speaking to you because
this is an easily recognizable fact.
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She relinquished factor in Kenya the
Vatican\'s unyielding rejection of condoms is
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affecting real lives here in
cosumer Irene already has aids.
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She\'s telling a group of unwed mothers
in a community projects what it\'s
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like take it seriously Maybe
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it isn\'t a Catholic project
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so condoms are available there with
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the propaganda against them and
it\'s been a local backlash.
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We people who are lacking especially with
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teenage mothers and child
prostitutes people who
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were already engaging in sex are actually
being seen as promoting promiscuity.
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Because we are telling them if you
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cannot if you haven\'t reached
a point where you ask strong
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enough to abstain then you better protect
yourself rather than getting exposed.
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Some of the women who
work here say Catholic
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propaganda against condoms
It\'s partly to blame
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for their HIV positive status
when I engaged in sex.
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I didn\'t use a condom I can
remember my headmaster
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Wednesday was trying to tell
us about the condom but when
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we went to church I had something
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the priest was saying that condom
is not good for people and in
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my life I see that if a couldn\'t have had
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enough information on the condom use
icons have contracted the virus.
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By things that the port.
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Perhaps is not in touch
with the Republic I know.
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Working with young girls in this program
I know how bad HIV aids as heat
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our adolescent Gans and I feel it
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is not so easy for someone sitting in
Rome to know what happens on the ground.
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Most of the Gulf that we have here and gas
from the Catholic background and yet they are
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infected with HIV positive if they
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used a condom one time it
would have saved their lives.
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Yet they cry and say it is too
late and we know it is too
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late because they already infected
And that\'s my appeal to the poll.
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You can lose something you can
see something that will come
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down to the charge and the
young people of the world will
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be saved we\'re losing a generation of
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young people Pope John Paul the
second has been fighting passionately
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against contraception and
abortion since he was elected
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25 years ago this week a campaign to uphold
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and ideal of love motherhood
and the value of life.
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Yet his opponents say these same
teachings of course distress and
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suffering in countries
where catholic belief
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counts the Vatican\'s
teaching can still be Life