birth control pill
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"It may be that the day will come when people say the birth-control pill was a mistake," Alan Sears explained.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2023
If the FDA follows this advice, the medication, sold under the name Opill, will be the first birth-control pill available without prescription in the United States.
From Scientific American • May 12, 2023
“Finally!” writes columnist Nicole Brodeur upon news of the positive signs coming out of a study on a male birth-control pill.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2018
The birth-control pill, which helped propel the second wave of feminism, and rock ’n’ roll’s hedonistic ethic and amplification both undermined Hammerstein’s patriarchal sentimentality and toughened the sound of pop.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010
Just before I moved to New York, two historic events had occurred: the birth-control pill was invented and the first Julia Child cookbook was published.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2006