RECENT newspaper grabs on the president of the World Federation of
Catholic Medical Associations Jose Maria Simon Castevelli’s claim that
“one of the causes of masculine infertility in the West is the
environmental contamination caused by the products of the pill” were met with the usual digs about whacky statements coming out of the Vatican.
If the diggers had dug a little deeper they would find Castevelli’s
concerns re artificial contraception are shared by none other than a co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.
Concerns worthy of deeper analysis and dissemination.
Eighty-five-year-old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill now says that his co-creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.”
He said that in most of Europe there was now “no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction” and described Austrian families who had decided against reproduction as “wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it.”
Castevelli also reiterated what is acknowledged in scientific
literature, that the most widely used anti-ovulatory pill in the
industrialised world, the one made with low doses of estrogen and
progesterone, in many cases works with an anti-implantation effect, that is, abortifacient, because it expels a small human embryo.”
Vienna’s Catholic Archbishop Christoph Schoenborn has publicly admitted to being initially “negative” about the 1968 encyclical condemning
artificial contraception but now believes it was “prophetic.”
As Pope Paul VI warned: “The contraceptive society is the abortive society”.
Who could disagree?
DENISE M CAMERON
President
Pro Life Victoria
