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Considering the huge social change the contraceptive pill has brought about, would you rate its invention as the greatest in recent times?

Today a common single woman's sexual freedom is widely acknowledged, and her sexual fulfillment has almost become her right. Could this have been possible sixty years ago in the pre-pill era, with the Damocles sword of pregnancy and consequent shame hanging over her? 

Posted - January 9, 2019

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    Jeanine Deckers, The Singing Nun, wrote a song praising "The Golden Pill" after she was released from her vows as a nun. Then she killed herself.
      January 14, 2019 7:54 PM MST
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