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	<title>News Vulture &#187; Contraceptives</title>
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		<title>Contraceptives pollute Environment says Vatican</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L&#8217;Osservatore Romano said Saturday. The pill &#8220;has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature&#8221; through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report. &#8220;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,&#8221; he said, without elaborating further. &#8220;We are faced with a clear anti-environmental effect which demands more explanation on the part of the manufacturers,&#8221; added Castellvi. The article was promptly dismissed by several organisations. &#8220;Once metabolised, the hormones contained in oral contraceptives no longer have any of the characteristic effects of feminine hormones,&#8221; 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 &#8220;are present everywhere&#8230; in plastic, in disinfectants, in meat that we eat,&#8221; added Flavia Franconi, of the Society of Italian Pharmacology. Pope Benedict XVI in October reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s condemnation of artificial birth [...]]]></description>
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