Pill Inventor Remorseful: Says Pill Has Devastated Society

Pill inventor: change of heart and understanding

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."

In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world's Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought "devastating ecological effects" by releasing into the environment "tonnes of hormones" that had impaired male fertility, The Taiwan Times says.

The assault began with a personal commentary in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard by Carl Djerassi. The Austrian chemist was one of three whose formulation of the synthetic progestogen Norethisterone marked a key step toward the earliest oral contraceptive pill.

Djerassi outlined the "horror scenario" that occurred because of the population imbalance, for which his invention was partly to blame. He said that in most of Europe there was now "no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction." He said: "This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete."

He described families who had decided against reproduction as "wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it."

The fall in the birth rate, he said, was an "epidemic" far worse, but given less attention, than obesity. Young Austrians, he said, were committing national suicide if they failed to procreate. And if it were not possible to reverse the population decline they would have to understand the necessity of an "intelligent immigration policy."

Read entire article here.

God is so gracious with us. No matter the magnitude of the mistakes we make - and , unfortunately, how many we led astray - some of us are given the time to find the truth and proclaim it. We need to pray for this man, who is undoubtedly feeling the weight of his sin.

And pray that his words will be heard.

Source:http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2009/01/pill_inventor_c.php

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+1 #2 2012-07-09 18:07

This man isn't remorseful for anything and I doubt he's feeling any weight from his 'sin'. The entire basis of this article is a contortion of his words which, by his own admission, never included anything about the pill or other contraception. Don't take my word for it, though, read his own words.

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0 #1 2012-07-02 22:43

Its good to see that natural law is becoming evidnet to him. I do pray for him. On a corrective note he is not "the" inventor he is co inventor the other being Mexican chemist Luis Miramontes who contributed to the synthesizing of the compounds that would make up the pill along with another Hungarian chemist. Its sad that this unholy invention came from persons who are from historically Catholic countries.

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