One of the key researchers who invented the contraceptive pill – 85 year-old Carl Djerassi of Austria – said the invention has caused a “demographic catastrophe.”
A personal commentary published in an Austrian newspaper laments that Europe’s demographic decline is a “horror scenario” brought about by the Pill’s invention. Djerassi writes that in Europe now, there is “no connection between sexuality and reproduction.” He wrote that young Austrians who fail to have children are committing national suicide.
In a seperate article, a leading medical expert said the Pill has brought about “devastating ecological effects” by releasing “tons of hormones” into the environment, which has lead to a decrease in male fertility.
Djerassi was one of three researchers whose formulation of the synthetic progestagen, Norethisterone, marked a key step in the creation of the first oral contraceptive pill.
In his essay, Djerassi called the falling birthrate in Europe an “epidemic” far worse than obesity, which has received much more attention. He said: “This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete.”
Dr. Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, speaking to the Catholic News Agency, pointed out the “devastating ecological effects of the tons of hormones discarded into the environment each year. We have sufficient data to state that one of the causes of masculine infertility in the West is the environmental contamination caused by the products of the Pill.”
Source: Catholic News Agency and CathNews.com
Originally printed in the March/April 2009 edition of Family Foundations magazine, page 6.
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