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From: Travis
Subject: This explains the rise of the metrosexual
Date: Friday, January 9, 2009,
*Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper
*1/3/2009 7:00:00 PM -Yahoo News
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and
is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican
newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday.
The pill "has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by
releasing tonnes of hormones into nature" through female urine, said Pedro
Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of
Catholic Medical Associations, in the report.
"We have sufficient evidence to state that a non-negligible cause of male
infertility in the West is the environmental pollution caused by the pill,"
he said, without elaborating further.
"We are faced with a clear anti-environmental effect which demands more
explanation on the part of the manufacturers," added Castellvi.
The article was promptly dismissed by several organisations.
"Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer
have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones," said
Gianbenedetto Melis, vice-president of a contraceptive research association,
quoted by the ANSA news agency.
The hormones contained in the pill such as oestrogen "are present
everywhere... in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat," added
Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology.
Pope Benedict XVI in October reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's
condemnation of artificial birth control.
Contraception "means negating the intimate truth of conjugal love, with
which the divine gift (of life) is communicated," the leader of the world's
1.1 billion Roman Catholics wrote on the 40th anniversary of a papal
encyclical on the topic.
An encyclical is a letter usually treating some aspect of Catholic doctrine
and issued occasionally by the pope.
The landmark document, whose title in English is "On the Regulation of
Birth", was published at a time when the development of the Pill was giving
new sexual freedom to women across the world.
Millions of Catholics distanced themselves from Rome as a result.
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