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John Rock, clinical professor of Gynecology, emeritus, suggested in The Time Has Come, published yesterday, that the pill Enovid works on the same principal as the "rhythm method," which the church currently accepts, and expressed hope that the church might approve the pill...
Pills for Men. The Chicago drug firm of G. D. Searle & Co., the first to sell an oral contraceptive, put its Enovid tablets (by prescription only) on the market only two years ago. Searle's sales jumped $12 million the first year, and 1,000,000 women users have since pushed sales to about $18 million a year. Last week New Jersey's Ortho Pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson-already the nation's largest producer of vaginal contraceptives-entered the lucrative market with its new Ortho-Novum birth control tablets. The company expects that Ortho-Novum will...
Second, Fletcher found that "sterilization for social or medical reasons can be a conscientious practice." Although this position is disputed, Fletcher observed that the bishop who denounced a Virginia hospital for offering voluntary sterilization got little support. Fletcher called pills such as Enovid simply a form of temporary sterilization...
Moderator Louis Jaffe then called on Dr. John Rock, clinical professor of Gynecology, Emeritus, to present the Catholic position and to reconcile it with his invention of Enovid. Enovid is a steroid compound, commonly known as "The Pill," which prevents ovulation...
...steroid compounds, Rock explained, are simply adjuncts to nature: the physiology of the safe period, marked by the production of progesterone, is identical with the effects of Enovid. Just as a woman's body has cycles to protect its offspring, a woman has an intellect to safeguard her marriage. "It may even be immoral," Rock said, "to refuse to use the intellect...