The decline of the birth control pill

Sixty years after the birth control pill (ac) appeared, its use is falling to such an extent that its rejection is becoming fashionable, due to the great inconvenience it has always caused to health. The media abound in testimonies such as: ‘I have never felt so free, as if I had been freed from a heavy burden on my shoulders’.

The pill is accused of affecting sleep, of producing headaches, of encouraging depression, sexual frigidity, etc. etc. For example, in Germany, consumption has fallen to 53% of women and in Austria to 38%. Moreover, doctors now advise against its use after the age of 35, partly because of the danger of thrombosis which has led hundreds of women to their graves.

One of the unfortunate effects of the pill is the loss of respect for women by men, who are transformed into objects of sexual pleasure available at all times and in all places, to the point of boredom between the parties. This process is reinforced by the fact that sexual intercourse under the effect of the Pill prevents the dignifying of the act of love, which by its nature is oriented towards the transmission of life, and therefore has in itself a profound moral meaning, in which the parties would have to see themselves as cooperating in the transmission of life, and therefore would have to live their own lives as a vocation destined to protect that life as parents, and then as grandparents. This relationship underpins the family as the absolutely essential cell in the formation and maintenance of human society.

It is well understood that the voluntary act of avoiding – or even killing the child in the case of abortion pills – the child is considered a grave sin not only by Jewish-Christian moral principles, but also by other religions.