Trying to use pseudoscience to prove a Scriptural point

The Bible is pretty clear that children are a blessing, that we are to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Blessed is the man with a full quiver. Etc. That children are a blessing should be reason enough for Christians to welcome children. But not for the Vatican who published this gem of a "study" today.

Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper

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.

That is so patently silly on it's face that it discredits the argument as a whole. There are plenty of reasons to not use birth control pills (health and moral reasons) and I am living proof that we don't have a "male infertility" problem in the world. Trying to make up "studies" like this? Just silly and unhelpful.