The History of Birth Control

How did we get to where we are like right now with 151 million people using the pill? Tom, do you know how the pill works? Caroline: I take it all the time just for fun. It makes your body think that you're not pregnant or something like that. And so oh, and then it makes you shed the lining. So as long as it's your pregnant, then you're not releasing any eggs to be fertilized. A lot of contraception makes you stop your period for a lot of people because it is doing the opposite. There was a really interesting paper called resisting reproduction, reconsidering slave contraception in the old south,. That talks about some of the sources of the

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