Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper
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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.

I have done six years of research on this exact subject. Hormone imbalance is the cause of many epidemic illnesses today including mental illness, heavy and irregular menstrual cycles, obesity, anxiety, insomnia, the list goes on and on. I have read articles where male fish are producing EGGS in the Potamac River, Male gulls are nesting with other Male gulls...which explains also the extremes we are now seeing in human males. (epidemic feminization and/or increased agression) I dare to make the claim that bipolar disorder is purely hormonal imbalance. (based on all I have read over the years)
Although we cannot totally cure ourselves in industrialized countries, we can fight it, though we now have to work harder. Through diet, exercise, vitamin supplements and adding hormones where needed we can balance, but there is no magic pill or magic cream no matter what you may hear.

The pill is so bad in so many ways... Anyone hear of Pheromones? The pill can actually cause one to choose the wrong marriage partner... Here is an example:

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/ESP178/Science_of_Romance.pdf

Linda