Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pill on sale in the dime stores...
...Contrary to popular opinion, Prudence and the Pill was not written by Graham Blaine. It is a "bedroom farce" about what happens when a suspicious husband replaces his wife's Enovid with aspirin. Pregnancy is the obvious result, but when? And who? Written by Hugh Mills, published by Lippincott, and not worth the effort...
...Pill. The effect of the birth-control pill intrigues and puzzles the experts. Certainly, declares the U.S. Public Health Service, pills did not initiate the downturn, since they were not introduced for general use until June 1960, and not used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop...
Every reasonably safe and sure method of contraception so far devised has required that either partner take preventive measures before intercourse. Last week two Yale University researchers reported the discovery of a "morning-after" pill that can prevent pregnancy when taken as long as six days afterward...
...morning-after pill is not literally a contraceptive, since it does not work by preventing ovulation, or the union of sperm and ovum. Instead, it prevents implantation of the fertilized ovum (zygote) in the wall of the uterus, which normally occurs about six to seven days after conception...