"Carl Djerassi fled with his mother from Nazi persecution in Austria and flourished in the United States as a chemist and a writer, an entrepreneur and a teacher. In early 1950s he was one of three scientists whose work on synthetic progestagen laid the foundation for the first oral contraceptive pill, which the Federal Drug Administration approved for use in in 1960. Forty-nine years later (2009), the 85-year-old professor emeritus from Stanford University wrote of his achievement for the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard.
The Pill is partially responsible for the population decline in Europe that Prof. Djerassi characterized as a “horror scenario” and a “catastrophe.”
“(There is now) no connection at all between sexuality and reproduction.” Focusing on the land of his birth, he continuted, “This divide in Catholic Austria, a country which has on average 1.4 children per family, is now complete.” Prof. Djerassi described families choosing against reproduction as “wanting to enjoy their schnitzels while leaving the rest of the world to get on with it,” and predicted national suicide because young Austrians refuse to have children.
To be partially responsible implies there must be other factors to blame. I’d like to be the first to point my finger at good will."
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