Word: pill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston chapter of Planned Parenthood announced yesterday that it will collaborate with a Harvard affiliated hospital to test the French abortion pill...
...sexual revolution - at least for those college-educated whites who came of age with John Updike's swinging Couples, Philip Roth's priapic Portnoy and Jong's Fear of Flying - but the revolution turned out to have a beginning, a middle and an end. "From the time of the Pill to Rock Hudson's death, people had a sense of freedom," says Judith Krantz, author of Scruples. "That's gone...
...Dude" had a devious sense of humor. In 1948, when the councillors were struggling to elect a mayor, Sullivan created a moment of levity by placing an egg in fellow councillor Hyman Pill's pocket, hoping that it would break when Pill sat down. The egg story made the pages of Life magazine...
...abortion is clearly wrong -- and it is -- the way to begin preventing abortions is to encourage contraception. Contraception sinlessly heads off the unwelcome pregnancy that might occasion the sin of abortion, that is, the destruction of rudimentary life. Only abstracted celibates and moral neurotics (I think) insist that a pill or condom contravenes the divine design for sex. On the contrary, contraception is an act of moral responsibility perfectly consistent with marital virtue and family cohesion...
...call for a return to a more thorough drug-testing process, even if it means postponing the approval of new treatments. Perhaps most stunning of all, the activists would agree -- under certain conditions -- to so-called placebo trials, in which some patients receive a sugar pill in place of an experimental drug. Just a few years ago, activists were unanimous in denouncing such traditional testing methods as unethical when it came to the treatment of AIDS. But then doctors and patients started to complain that the speeded-up approval process didn't provide them with enough information to make...