Doctors oppose bill
PA Hamilton Waikato doctors want the Medical Association to oppose the homosexual law reform bill on the ground that it. could produce an A.I.D.S. epidemic. A Hamilton surgeon, Dr Geoffrey Wynne-Jones, has proposed in a remit to the annual conference this week that the association join him in his stand against the bill. He has already made submissions to the Parliamentary select committee considering the bill. He wants the association to adopt his submission as an official stance. His remit is backed by the association’s Waikato division. Dr Wynne-Jones said A.I.D.S. was a homosexual disease and the only way to prevent its spread was to prevent or restrict sodomy. If the bill was passed, homosexual practice would increase and once A.I.D.S. reached New Zealand it would rapidly spread to epidemic proportions. He said that as a surgeon he was concerned about risk of contracting A.I.D.S. through needleprick injury. Surgeons had died from hepatitis in this manner.
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