Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 27, 2004 / 22:00 pm
In his weekly television program, “Keys for a Better World,” Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina, denounced “sex-ed” programs that are being proposed for use in schools as “the complete opposite” of what education in chastity and love should be.
According to Archbishop Aguer, the sex-ed programs promoted by international organizations have a “totalitarian aspect, as they ignore the rights of parents, who are always primarily responsible for the education of their children, and this right is preeminent with regards to these matters that are so essential and so important in the formation of one’s personality.”
Health officials in Argentina have planned in 2005 for the distribution of 5 million oral contraceptives, 850,000 injectible contraceptives, 460,000 intrauterine devices, 8 million condoms, as well as other contraceptives.
Archbishop Aguer denounced the current “National Law on Sexual Health and Responsible Procreation,” for requiring schools to provide instructions on these issues. “I think these figures reveal the focus of these types of projects which tend to propose education on human sexuality and provide tools ‘to cure oneself’, as they say,” he explained.