the Pill

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• SOURCE: The Weekly Wonk
  11-6-14
  

  Did We Give the Pill Too Much Power?

  by Elizabeth Weingarten

  More than fifty years after the pill first came to market, its promise of access and equality remains unfulfilled for millions of other women.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10-7-14
  

  The Great Bluff That Led To A 'Magical' Pill And A Sexual Revolution

  In the '50s, selling contraception was still officially illegal in many states.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-3-14
  

  How the Pill Overcame Impossible Odds And Found a Place in Millions of Women's Purses

  by Ann Friedman

  The pill is now so common—four out of five sexually active women have used it—that it’s easy to forget that oral contraception was once the stuff of fantasy.