A paper in The Lancet claims that Roman Catholic nuns pay a ?terrible price for their chastity?, as not having babies puts them at greater risk of breast, ovarian and uterine tumours.
This is because women who never give birth or breastfeed have more periods than those who do, and an increased number of menstrual cycles has been linked to higher cancer risk.
By contrast, the contraceptive pill has been shown to significantly reduce the chances of women developing ovarian and uterine cancers without increasing breast cancer risk.
Australian scientists claim that in spite of the Vatican?s prohibition on artificial birth control, an document written by a former Pope suggests that nuns could be allowed to take the Pill.
Dr Kara Britt from Monash University, Melbourne and Prof Roger Short from the University of Melbourne, write in a comment piece published on Thursday: ?The Catholic church condemns all forms of contraception except abstinence, as outlined by Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae in 1968.
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