The pill collection 2

the Pill has been taken by 200 million women. --

В пред. посте почти везде указывалась сотня, эта циерка ближе к той оценке, что дадена мною в статейке, коя пока не публикована. Основание этой оценки -- оценка ООН по мировому преваленсу пилюли

Research for a “magic pill” began in 1950, driven by Margaret Sanger... - это неверно по факту (отсюда надо будет потом ссылку поставить на МГ)

обывательски:

“Families were huge, six children was average (Jennifer Worth, a midwife),” she says. “Diaphragms didn’t really work and men poured scorn on contraception, calling them ‘sissy’. Unmarried mothers were usually disowned by their families, backstreet abortionists were thriving, and orphanages were full of illegitimate children.
“But in younger women, resentment was building. They’d had experience of the workplace during the war and wanted more out of life than the endless childbearing that had been their mothers’ lot. As soon as they could take contraception into their own hands, they did. Within a few years of the Pill arriving, deliveries on our ward went down from about 100 a month to five.”

Already Britain was in the throes of extraordinary upheaval. Six years after the Pill arrived, the Rolling Stones were singing Let’s Spend the Night Together (аморальная интерпретация Дэвида Боуи). Women rejected their mothers’ perms and twinsets for long hair and mini-skirts.

“Before the Pill, you could always use the excuse, however disingenuous, of ‘I might get pregnant’. It was like pulling a sickie, saying: ‘I can’t come in, I’ve got a sore throat’, and it helped women be sure if this relationship really was the right thing for them. Afterwards, it made it much harder for young women to prolong their courtships and to say ‘no’.”.... It was like not having a toothbrush – everybody came prepared.

A recent 40-year study of 46,000 women showed Pill-users live longer and are less likely to die prematurely of all sorts of ailments, including various cancers and heart disease, than women who had never taken it. -- опубликовано в БМЖ, надо найтить

But what of our moral fabric, as so bewailed by Ms Welch? (см. пред.пост:) Jennifer Worth laughs. “That’s an outrageous statement. The Pill saved far more marriages, by reducing the pressure on women. It certainly saved millions’ mental and physical health.”