Did you see that the guy who invented the Pill now believes Catholics are right about contraception?

Very interesting.

For those who claim the article is bias, it was picked up from the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, not a Catholic paper. Also here it is again, in non-Catholic articles and posts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161708/p...

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.as...

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/01/09/news/wor...

And those who say a declining population is a good thing...you have no idea what you are talking about. We have been fed the lie that we were heading towards an over populations crisis and society has bought it with absolutely no proof or statistics to prove such a claim. As population declines, obviously we will die out. In France the government is paying couples to have children because they are so alarmed at the drop in birth rates.

Here are some real facts on the population decine crisis:

http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/1979.cfm

http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata...

http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers...

http://www.grtl.org/docs/news/overpopulation.pdf

The Catholic Church is right.

ADDED: to Buffet Catholic: Your statement is a sad one. You do not understand your own faith and you do Catholicism a disservice. You are a protestant because you protest the faith. You should read HUMANAE VITAE. If you do you will find that the prohibition against contraception is founded in a love for God and for his faithful followers. Jesus said "If you love me, keep my commandments."

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclic...

All I can say is... "Wow, look, the Catholic Church was right!"

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Actually, I can add something else: Buffet Catholic--> As Peter Kreeft said "There is no such thing as a Cafeteria Style Catholic". You either agree with Catholicism and what she teaches or you're not Catholic. Please don't say you're Catholic and then answer against the Catholic Church's teachings because your little 40 years experience (if that) is nothing to the 2,000 years behind the Catholic Church. Even in the Didichae (from the Apostles) we have them saying contraception and abortion is wrong.

And yes, as Sparki said ya'll, male infertility has been linked to the amount of female hormones in the water. These hormones have come from the abundance of birth controls being recycled through our drinking system. Though the government can purify water, they haven't figured out how to get rid of the chemicals in the water--thus birth control hormones are high in the water.

It's why they say in streams the abundance of female fish is so high, because of the hormones in the water are causing more females to be born than males--thus salmon are going to become endangered species due to our selfishness.

The pill is still one of greatest inventions of the 20th Century hands down. Carl the Austrian chemist may be concerned with his country's current reproductive rate, but it does fall in line with many industrialized European and Western societies. Realistically, if Europeans were having children as third world areas such as South Asia (India), South America, and African Nations, then Europe would not have seen the successes it has seen in the last 60 years. More mouths to feed is a burden on the family and society in general. It is proven that we may be experiencing extreme food shortages in the near future, but in all actuality Westerners and Europeans in general have been experiencing this travesty in small numbers, largely due to the fact that industrialized nations do not procreate at typically huge numbers as other nations. My point is that women/families have been given a choice on reproduction, which is almost exclusive to the middle to upper echelon of the world. Religion factions should not dictate a person's choice in reproduction...period!

1. The pill is a good thing. It stops thousands, possibly millions of people who don't currently want children from having them. It stops who knows how many abortions from having to happen. I, personally, am pro-choice, despite the fact that I dislike the idea of abortion.

2. The only men who want to be fertile are those who want to have children. Infertility is a problem, but not one that I think most guys are very concerned about.

3. Just how important is the internal population of Austria? We're not talking about population decline due to death. We're talking about people not being born. Japan has a similar problem. Answer: Increase immigration from countries that have way too many people (despite the pill, many countries still have increasing populations!). I believe that Austria opened its borders for doctors in the past.

Is this a question? Or a political agenda? haha

PS: Austria and Australia are two very different countries.

Actually,female hormones being the cause is only a theory.They are unable to pinpoint the cause because so many things could be responsible-soda, electronics, environment, etc.

Frankly anything responsible for curbing population numbers works for me-people should start adopting more anyways.

No. Besides, that's one person's opinion. Birth control is the greatest thing ever for those who want to plan a family responsibly. For those who don't like it, don't use it, but don't stop others because their beliefs differ from yours.

This article did not say that Djerassi thinks Catholics are right about contraception. He says that the birth control pill has led to decreased male fertility, a position that is not agreed with by many in the scientific community. In any case, he does not say that birth control is wrong, so your initial position is incorrect.

The reasons for declining sperm counts are many and varied and the main cause is probably the use of chemicals in plastics that mimic the effects of oestrogen rather than female hormones in the water supply.

I think it's great that the populations are on the decline instead of an increase. Sure we will have more older people for awhile until things level out but it is an overall advantage in the long run. Many people are starving in the world because of overpopulation. We will just have to send all our old codgers off to live out their declining years on farms designed to care for their basic needs. That would be better than sending them to slaughter houses don't you think and have them reprocessed to use as food for the homeless and indigents.

Have you ever in your life heard that we have a lot of environmental problems precisely because of overpopulation?

Newsflash: population not growing is a good thing!

If there were just half a billion people on earth pollution, global warming, oil reserves, deforestation would probably only be a negligible problem.

And please, please manage to figure out that Australia and Austria are entirely different countries. My Austrian friend gets always pissed off if people can't tell the difference.