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World Service,12 Feb 1999,4 mins

The Contraceptive Pill

My Century

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"Sex became so wonderful." Maureen was one of the first women in Britain to enjoy the benefits of the contraceptive pill in the 1960s. "One thing I knew absolutely - without a shadow of a doubt - I did not want another child." She describes her life before the pill and how it changed once she'd started to take it.

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