80% of women born since 1945 have used the Pill. Oral contraceptives provided and effective means by which women can seek social and economic equality. With the advent of the Pill, women would never again live as second class citizens.
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"...one very practical reason why the older movements for women's liberation could not go beyond hollow token gains; medical technology had not yet developed effective contraception..."
-Lucinda Cisler (referring to The Pill), feminist |