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Sounds like a story to me

January 12, 2009 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

One of the inventors of the birth control pill denounces…his own invention: 

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”.

Sounds like a story, but we aren’t hearing about it, as Get Religion points out. (That’s because a lack of information, old, stale news, and pats on the back and possibly high fives for whatever we choose are fundamental women’s rights.)

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