The church may oppose the pill, but one Catholic bank in Germany was profiting off it

Talk about hypocrisy. A Catholic bank in Germany was revealed by newspaper reporting to have invested money in the stock of American birth control maker Wyeth, despite the Roman Catholic Church’s condemnation of birth control.

Der Spiegel newspaper discovered the bank had invested 580,000 euros (£495,310, $826,674) in British arms company BAE Systems.
It also invested 160,000 euros in American birth control pill maker Wyeth and 870,000 euros in tobacco companies.
The bank apologised for behaviour “not in keeping with ethical standards”.

Let’s tell women not to use it, but make money when they buy it. Nice one.

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