Five Million Taking Contraceptive Pills
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)
LONDON, Dec. 30.
The world’s total of women taking oral contraceptive pills has now passed five million. Sir Theodore Fox, medical director of the Family Plan-
ning Association, wrote in the British Medical Association’s magazine, “Family Doctor,” that the pill was “astonishingly effective.” He added: “To our forefathers it would have seemed a miracle, but even miracles are seldom perfect.” It might not be definitely known for many years whether the pill was a risk to health. Research so far suggested the risk was small. Officials at the Family Planning Association said that of the five million women taking the pill, most were in the United States. Of the rest, about half a million lived in Britain, where they formed about one in every 20 women of childbearing age.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 2
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