I knew that the FDA had used a study showing it might have a contraceptive effect to blackball it...But, until that link I didn't know how the study was conducted. Aspartame killed one of the Monkeys in its studies and gave the other 6 Seizures, yet it was approved. Stevia kept one rat from getting Pregnant and it was banned. Now, you can't tell me there's no graft going on there.

Also, the FDA seems to miss this:

US Population -- 290,342,554

48.5% are male, which would be approximately: 140,816,139 men. Since men can't get pregnant anyways, we can deduct them from the susceptible population. We can also deduct those under 14, since they probably should not be getting pregant anyways. We should also deduct those over 65, since they are almost certainly post-menopausal and cannot become pregant. That leaves 97,061,559 women between 14 and 65. Even a substantial percentage of those Women would likely be past their baby-bearing years or otherwise infertile. On top of that many of the remainder are likely not trying to conceive at this point in time anyways. That means upwards of 75%, probably closer to 90% of the people in this country aren't having children right now. Figure a 14% contraceptive rate and that means <3.5%, probably as low as 1.4% of the population would be effected. That would reduce the birth rate from 14.1 per 1,000 to 13.9 per 1,000, which is still 3 per 1,000 higher than the birth rate in England; 1.5 per 1,000 higher than France; etc..Basically, our birth rate would still be higher than most of the rest of the FIRST world...and that is assuming that everyone consumed Stevia. Even if the claim [of a contraceptive effect] were true [which it isn't,] we could simply advise women seeking to conceive to avoid it...and it would have no effect on the birth rate.