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Fifty years ago this June, the Food and Drug Administration granted approval to the birth-control pill. Because the FDA had announced on May 9, 1960, that it intended to approve the drug, and because May 9 conveniently fell on Mother's Day this year, The Pill's celebrants seized on Mother's Day to mark The Pill's anniversary. In contrast to the perfect timing that links a drug to prevent motherhood with a holiday celebrating it is the bad timing that witnesses The Pill's 50th anniversary coinciding with a study whose findings suggest birth-control pills have worked better in theory than in practice.
Pew vs. The Pill
Seeded on Wed May 12, 2010 3:19 AM EDT
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The Pill provoked men and women to partake in an act of permanent consequences with the most transient of acquaintances. The result, predictably, was generations of children unwanted by their parents, who in many cases demonstrated this sad reality by abandoning or aborting them. The Pill reduced a serious act to frivolity.
The Pill reduced a serious act to frivolity?! WTF??
Oh man, Daniel J Flynn sounds like a Puritan from the 1600s.
Daniel also forgot to mention the pill saved millions of women's lives by allowing them to choose if or when a she wants a child. Not to mention spacing her children out instead of giving birth every year possibly resulting in death.
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#1 - Wed May 12, 2010 3:26 AM EDTFurther complicating The Pill's legacy is the dramatic rise in births among older women -- aided by fertility rather than anti-fertility drugs -- that the Pew survey documents. Since 1990, Pew notes that births to women 35 and older jumped from 9 percent to 14 percent. Ironically, birth control delaying pregnancy, or unleashing promiscuity leading to infertility, has more women reaching for pills working at cross purposes from The Pill.
Guess Daniel doesn't believe older women should have children either?
I had my last child at 39.
The Pill is not responsible for promiscuity, sheeze, people have been having sex in and out of marriage for centuries. Same goes for babies.
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I had my last child at 39.
No freakin way, You are over 39? I'm sending my wife to texas on the next plane. It's got to be in the water.
But back to story line.
The pill did make it easier to have sex , I live thru the 60's and witness it or should i say experienced it. But i agree we would have done it anyway.
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No freakin way, You are over 39? I'm sending my wife to texas on the next plane. It's got to be in the water.
I concur 110%
29 would have been my guess
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