Feb 1 - Correction: Dr Djerassi has sent a commentary to the Guardian denying that he blamed the contraceptive pill for Austria's demographic collapse:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/27/medical-research-health-response

One of the inventors of the contraceptive pill spoiled the holiday season for some diehard birth-controllers by publicly ruminating on the harm the Pill has done to Europe -- if not the rest of the world. The 85-year-old Carl Djerassi wrote a commentary in the Austrian paper, Der Standard, outlining the “horror scenario” of plunging birth rates the pill had helped to create.

Djerassi, a chemist, novelist and playwright, 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 couples who regularly contracept as “wanting… click here to read whole article and make comments