Monday, March 31, 2008 Pro-life doctor hits condom advertisements
DR. Rene Bullecer, president of Human Life International, Philippines, criticized DKT Inc. and its advertising outfit for showing advertisements containing "profanity, insult to families, and sexual deviancy."
Bullecer, who is presently touring the Visayas for a series of talks, was referring to Trust Condoms and family planning contraceptive ads produced by corporations like DKT Inc.
In Sunday's press conference at Bob's Café, Bullecer calls on the Ad Board, MTRCB, and KBP to immediately stop the airing, both on television and radio, of all "condoms and contraceptive" advertisements, saying this is unethical as per the responsibility of advertisers to the community as stipulated in the Code of Ethics for Advertisers.
He also slammed the advertisements on a contraceptive pill saying taking it results in smooth skin and on the use of condom as a preventive measure against the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
"On the contrary, studies show that countries with high prevalence rate of using condom had high incidences of HIV and (the use of) contraceptive pills for smooth skin is entirely baseless," Bullecer said.
Citing the Code of Ethics for Advertisers, Bullecer added "all quotations from or references to laboratory data, statistics and scientific terms should be presented fairly and in their correct context and should not in any case be presented as to create an impression other than that originally intended by the source."
Bullecer proved the ineffectiveness of condoms in stopping the spread of HIV infection by showing a mock male genital where the lower portion is not covered by the condom and the scrotum is totally unprotected.
Meanwhile, Bullecer claimed the issue on population explosion is a 'threat creation" of the United Nations and its funding agencies to rationalize the distribution of contraceptives.
"The problem here in the Philippines is not the increasing rate of population but corruption, bad governance, no advancement and poor agricultural management, and uncontrolled urban migration," he said.
"I am calling on the government to make full use of our demographic profile and abstinence as the best way to control the spread of HIV." (Gil Severino)
