New Contraception for Men?
CNA reports on a new contraceptive drug for men. The drug consists of monthly injections and reportedly has few side effects . It is a combination of testosterone in tea seed oil. From CNA: In a Wednesday phone interview, CNA spoke about the reported development with Fr. Alfred Cioffi, a National Catholic Bioethics Center staff ethicist and priest of the Archdiocese of Miami who possesses a doctorate in moral theology and a doctorate in genetics. He said if the reported drug is going to be used as a contraceptive, then its use would violate Catholic teaching because "contraception that interferes with conception is intrinsically evil." "It goes against the procreative aspect of the marital act," he explained, saying that Catholic teaching holds that the marital act has unitive and procreative dimensions that must be respected. "Artificial contraception, whether by the husband or the wife, directly interferes with the procreative dimension of the marital act, ...