Warning on Condom Packets

Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo †

Function: President of Family, Roman Curia

Title: Cardinal Bishop of Suburbicarian See of Friscati

Birthdate: Nov 08, 1935	Country: Colombia

Elevated: Feb 02, 1983	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Warning on Condom Packets
Sept 18, 2004
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo has suggested condom packages should carry health warning similar to that printed on cigarette packets.

(The Guardian, 14 October 2003) He put forward his idea in response to questions about his statements on the BBC Panorama TV report that condoms were not a guarantee against catching HIV/AIDS, comparing condom use to playing Russian Roulette.

"I propose that the ministries of health require the inclusion in condom packages and advertisements, and in the apparatus or shelves where they are displayed, a warning, that the condom is not safe," said Cardinal Trujillo, who is president of the Vatican's Council for the Family said.

"This has been done since some time ago with cigarettes, saying that the filter does not guarantee protection."

"I simply wished to remind the public, sustaining the opinion of a good number of experts, that when the condom is employed as a contraceptive, it is not totally dependable, and that the cases of pregnancy is not rare," Trujillo said. "In the case of the Aids virus, which is around 450 times smaller than the sperm cell, the condom's latex material obviously gives much less security."

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