{"id":51600,"date":"2025-08-19T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=51600"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:47:49","slug":"birth-control-pill-pablo-vi-was-right-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/pildora-anticonceptiva-pablo-vi-tenia-razon-despues-de-todo\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraceptive pill: Paul VI was right after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stefan Rehder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 18, 1960: Exactly 65 years ago, the U.S. pharmaceutical company Searle launched the first birth control pill under the brand name \"Enovid\". Enthusiasm was overflowing, and not only in the land of unlimited opportunity. Men and women alike praised the pill as a \"historic invention\", \"women's liberation\" and a \"blessing for mankind\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people are now wiser and more aware of the numerous dangers associated with regular use of hormonal preparations. These include a significantly increased susceptibility to thromboembolism, stroke, breast cancer and loss of libido. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that's not all: Recent research comparing brain scans of women who have been on the pill for years with those who have abstained shows that the hormones taken with the pill also alter the brain, both structurally and functionally. What's more, women who take the pill regularly exhibit all the markers that scientists currently use to detect chronic stress. This is also detrimental and can lead to hippocampal shrinkage and reduced neurogenesis, and even the overt development of severe depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that's not all: the pill also changes men, for whose sake women often take these artificial hormones that damage their bodies. \"Men who have become accustomed to contraceptives could lose respect for women and, without considering their physical well-being and spiritual balance, degrade them to mere instruments for the satisfaction of their desires and cease to see them as partners to whom respect and love are due,\" warned Pope Paul VI, ridiculed in Germany as \"Paul of the Pill,\" in his encyclical \"Humanae Vitae\" in 1968. Who would dare contradict him today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a translation of an article that first appeared on the website\u00a0<\/em>Die-Tagespost<em>. For the original article in German, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.die-tagespost.de\/politik\/anti-baby-pille-und-paul-vi-hatte-doch-recht-art-266416\">here\u00a0<\/a>. Republished in Omnes with permission.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Rehder 18 de agosto de 1960: Hace exactamente 65 a\u00f1os, la farmac\u00e9utica estadounidense Searle lanz\u00f3 la primera p\u00edldora anticonceptiva bajo la marca \u00abEnovid\u00bb. El entusiasmo era desbordante, y no solo en la tierra de las oportunidades ilimitadas. Hombres y mujeres por igual elogiaron la p\u00edldora como un \u00abinvento hist\u00f3rico\u00bb, \u00abla liberaci\u00f3n de la mujer\u00bb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":51601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecologia-integral","category-foco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>P\u00edldora anticonceptiva: Pablo VI ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n despu\u00e9s de todo - Omnes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La primera p\u00edldora anticonceptiva conlleva graves riesgos f\u00edsicos, psicol\u00f3gicos y sociales asociados a su uso prolongado.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/focus\/birth-control-pill-pablo-vi-was-right-after-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"P\u00edldora anticonceptiva: Pablo VI ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n despu\u00e9s de todo - 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