The Pill as Scapegoat As female sexuality and premarital sex moved out of the shadows, the Pill became a convenient scapegoat for the sexual revolution among social conservatives. Many argued that ...

In the decade after the Pill was released, the oral contraceptive gave women highly effective control over their fertility. By 1960, the baby boom was taking its toll. Mothers who had four ...

Are these fears backed up by evidence? Like many young women, Sarah E Hill spent her late teens and most of her twenties on the contraceptive pill. "I never thought twice about it," says Hill ...

About 1050 of them, or 15%, became pregnant within three months of stopping the pill. This group was compared with pregnant women who had not used the pill for a longer period of time. What the ...