1. Introduction

United for Life has a slogan which runs,  ‘Abortion is never safe because abortion always kills a child.’ .   Clearly there is no such thing as ‘safe abortion’.  Nor is there such a thing as ‘safer abortion’ or ‘safest abortion’.  Abortion is always an act of killing children.  It is never ‘safe’ to kill children.

The same thing goes for sex education - including HIV education.  Historically, sex education, particularly in schools, has been used as a tool by eugenic agenda based organisations to implement their sexual revolution programme.

2. What the experts say

Dr ES Williams, former Director of Public Health Medicine, Croydon, Surrey, in his book entitled,  Lessons in Depravity ,  he states that,

‘If the purpose of sex education has been to protect young people against the damaging consequences of sexual activity, then it has been a spectacular failure.  However, if the real purpose of sex education has been to promote the sexual revolution, as I argue in this book, then it has been remarkably successful.’

Under the section 'Parental Responsibility' he continues,

‘...it is the responsibility of parents, Christian and non-Christian alike, to teach their children a moral framework on which to build their lives ...those children who have been taught about chastity and self-control gain no benefit from being told about contraceptive techniques and how to ‘be prepared’ for sex.’

Most promoters of sex education keep telling us that our nation and the rest of the world will not solve the problem of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases or solve the problem of unwanted pregnancy, until there is mandatory sex education in schools, more contraception used, and more freely available abortion on demand.  However, an article by Dr ES Williams, published in the British Medical Journal , shows that contraceptive failure, not lack of sex education, as ‘...a major factor in teenage pregnancy’, since 80% of pregnant teenagers claimed to have been using contraception at conception.

Clearly, the term ‘sex education’ suggests telling people how to engage in sexual activity and what to do with the consequences such as unplanned pregnancies, and how to ‘avoid diseases’.  Sex education programmes often suggest the use of condoms and other forms of contraception and offer the killing of children by abortion as an ‘option’.  However, abortion and sexually transmitted disease rates have risen hand-in-hand with the ever increasing rate of sex education programmes in schools, condom promotion and the offer of abortion services.  The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology, RCOG, in making their submission to parliament in relation to the 1967 Abortion Act, published in the British Medical Journal, April 1966, showed that in the UK there could never have been more that about 14,600 abortions per year.  However, on average, there have been about 200,000 abortions per year with a total of 7,000,000 (7 million) abortions in the UK alone since the 1967 Abortion Act came into force.  These figures are not enough for the promoters of so called ‘sex education’ because the promoters of sex education want abortion ever more freely available, with ever greater access.  However, ‘ever greater access’ has always led to more abortions - not less.  This trend has been no less the case for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

3. Condoms & STDs

The University of Texas, in ‘A course about making decisions, evaluating information, and knowing what to trust’, in  Chapter 6  it states that, ‘Condoms are made to withstand the rigors of sex.  But the models used by governments to test condom durability have nothing to do with sex.’,  and that under the subheading entitled, 'Models of STD transmission', it states,

'Even if the models used to test condoms are reasonable indicators of whether a condom will break during sex, and thus whether they will function adequately in preventing sperm from reaching the female's reproductive system, but they may be rather poor indicators of whether a microscopic pathogen can pass from one partner to the other.  For example, the water test can detect holes only as small as 5 mm, but this sized hole is many times the size of sexually-transmitted viruses and even of the bacterium Chylamidia.  Similarly, the airburst test is insensitive to small holes.  So here we find new limitations of existing methods of testing condoms: these models don't give us a good understanding of the barrier to pathogens afforded by a condom.  That is, these models have serious limitations when considering condoms as barriers to infectious disease.’

The more someone uses contraception, the more they expose themselves to potential contraceptive failure and the more they expose themselves to the consequences they are trying to avoid.  However, abstinence never gave anyone a disease; abstinence never made anyone pregnant.

4. Sex Educators and their failures

It has been over fifty years since governments in the UK and around the world have promoted the fallacy of sex education while stubbornly refusing to promote abstinence.  Sex education has the self-fulfilling cycle of failure because as it fails - the cry is ‘more of the same’.  Governments, sex educators and others, fail in their role of educating young people on personal and sexual safety and fail to promote the dignity of the person if they advocate the use of contraception or offer the killing of children by abortion as an option and refuse to promote abstinence only education.

The  Abstinence Cleaning House  provides evidence that abstinence education really works.  The publication entitled:  A Consumer's Guide to The Pill and Other Drugs , by Prof. John Wilks B.Pharm. MPS MACPP,  shows how contraception, including condoms, really fail.  The American Life League shows  How The Pill Kills  .  The  Heritage Foundation  provides two reports, one of them entitled:  Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence - A Study of Competing Curricular  ,  and the other entitled:  Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes  , both demonstrating the success of abstinence.  Project Reality  gives answers to the question -  Does Abstinence Education Really Work?  .

5. Contraception pollutes the environment

In addition, governments, sex educators and others, must actively address pollution of the environment, including water supplies, drinking water and soil, by estrogens from contraceptives, including the Pill, the morning-after-pill, and other chemicals, which has shown to change the sex of fish.

The European Commission has funded research by  EDEN  into the disruptive effects of estrogens in the water supply.  In May 2005  EDEN  produced  The Prague Declaration on Endocrine Disruption , which states that,

' Fish exposed to the contraceptive pill ingredient at concentrations found in European rivers showed disturbed sexual development and impaired reproductive capabilities at the adult stage, including reduced or inhibited egg production and egg fertilisation, hindered release of semen and lower survival of their offspring.'

Regarding unborn human life the Declaration continues,

...' Genital malformations, testis cancer, and some cases of reduced sperm quality arise early in life, even during development in the womb.  These conditions have common causes during reproductive organ development in the foetus, which is controlled by hormones.  The concern is that endocrine disrupters may interfere with these processes to disturb male genital development during pregnancy.  Similarly, hormonal dysregulation may lead to the formation of breast cancer in women and abnormal pubertal development in girls.'

The BBC On-line News article, 10 July 2004, entitled:  Pollution 'changes sex of fish' , states that,

'Hormones in the sewage, including those produced by the female contraceptive pill, are thought to be the main cause' and that, 'A third of male fish in British rivers are in the process of changing sex due to pollution in human sewage, research by the Environment Agency suggests.'

One of the easiest reports to read on this issue is by WorldNetDaily, 12 July, 2007, entitled:  Birth-control pills poison everyone .  Another good introduction to the issue is  The Pill as Pollutant - A really inconvenient truth  by Iain Murray, National Review Online, 22 April, 2008.  According to  Water Encyclopedia  ,  chemical pollutants in water can have concentrations of 1 part per billion yet this concentration changes sex of fish, while in drinking water concentrations can be 1 part per trillion.

Contraception clearly pollutes the environment.  In addition to hormonal contraception condoms also pollute the environment.  Condoms are disposed of in landfill sites, by incineration or through the sewage system and get into marine environments.  It has been estimated that up to a 100 million condoms per year in the UK are being disposed directly into the sewage system according to a  report  by the  Marine Conservation Society   which has also launched its  'Don' t Let Go!'   awareness campaign highlighting the impacts of balloons on the environment.  If there is concern over the environmental impact of party balloons then there should be an even greater concern over the environmental impact of condoms and the environmental impact of hormonal contraception.

The evidence shows how a contraceptive lifestyle impacts on the environment and that governments, sex educators and others need to address these human life and environmental disasters.  The use of contraception is correctly identified as an eco-crime and United for Life believes that if the Government can ban smoking on health grounds or fox hunting on animal rights grounds it can also ban the use of contraceptives on health, human rights, and environmental grounds.

Governments, sex educators and others must accept that NFP - Natural Family Planning - is eco-friendly, woman-friendly and human-life-friendly.  What’s more - it really works - to protect the environment and for the number and spacing of children.  Contrary to popular myth contraception and sterilisation are not required for the number and spacing of children.

WOOMB International , the natural family planning organisation, in its statement to the United Nations in June 2001 , states that,

'Women have embraced the Billings method regardless of their socio-economic status, culture or religion.  It is easily understood by all - the blind, the illiterate, those living in absolute poverty and those members of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups identified in the Habitat Agenda.  There is no cost to health or purse in the teaching or practice of this natural, eco-friendly method.  Women and governments are free of the costly complications of contraception.'

Contraceptives treat women’s natural menstrual cycle as if it is a disease to be prevented by attacking her body with carcinogenic environmentally destructive chemicals.  However, natural family planning is eco-friendly, woman-friendly and does not destroy a human life.

United for Life urges governments, sex educators and others to embrace WOOMB's eco-friendly outlook on human life which is in keeping with the environmental claim of Friends of the Earth to ‘...make life better for people.’

6. Conclusion

Governments, sex educators and others have got to get a reality check, stop their obsessive self-fulfilling cycle of failure, get over themselves, and accept that abstinence never gave anyone a disease and that abstinence never made anyone pregnant.

United for Life shows how the killing of children by abortion, contraception, human embryo experimentation, IVF, human cloning and related activities, are modern forms of slavery, destroy the environment, and how human rights apply.

Find out how these activities violate  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on Slavery, the Convention on Genocide and a number of Conventions, and how  human embryos have human rights  .