An Inventor Repudiates His Invention

Carl Djerassi, the Austrian chemist considered a primary inventor of the contraceptive 'birth control' pill now regrets the "demographic catastrophe" caused by his 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."