the Pill
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The Pill was introduced in the 1950s, and its possible side effects are still being investigated. It nonetheless offered an ease of use and reliability of result that no other method of contraception had ever before supplied. In this way, it contributed greatly to the sexual revolution.
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Paul area, Duluth and Rochester, though Planned Parenthood has been providing an increasing number of telemedicine medication abortions to women with Minnesota addresses, as has another provider, Just the Pill.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Janet plunged £55,000 into revamping the derelict gentleman's convenience in the Pill area of the city into the Phyllis Maud Performance Space, named after her aunt, who died aged 96 in 2017.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
In University of Oregon professor Krystale Littlejohn's newly released book, "Just Get On the Pill," Littlejohn explores what she calls "the uneven burden of reproductive politics."
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021
This is puny compared to the estimated 8.6 million women who have undergone female sterilization or the 6.6 million women on the Pill.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2021
But he was possessed of a contradictory spirit, for he swam after the Pill, crying to be taken aboard again.
From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook
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