Moral, Social Damage Done By Pill Still Disturbing
By FR. GEORGE WELZBACHER (Editor’s Note: This article by Fr. George Welzbacher, a retired St. Paul, Minn., pastor and professor, first appeared in The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper, on August 31, 2000. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the coming of the birth control pill.) + + + Forty years have passed since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first authorized physicians to prescribe a drug that would subvert the institution of motherhood. May 9, 1960, was the day on which the authorization was granted; it was, by ironic coincidence, the day after Mothers’ Day. The drug, of course, was Enovid, a/k/a “the pill.” Developed by Dr. Gregory Pincus and Dr. John Rock and manufactured by the Searle…Continue Reading