WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Dalkon Shield

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

A brief history the big litle pill. Film the sterilizaion of leiliani muir (45 minutes). Only married women could be prescribed the pill for birth control: physicians could prescribe hormones for any reason other than birth control (ex. If they prescribed the pill for birth control, they were breaking the law: in 1968, pope paul vi released the catholic church"s irst oicial posiion on the birth control pill. Vitae (of human life) condemned the pill as an ariicial means of birth control and, thus, as sinful. Dalkon shield intrauterine device: this nonhormonal birth control method proved to have risks of permanent inferility and had to be pulled from the market ater 3 short years. The 2000s brought contracepive patches and rings to canada, and research on sprays and gels elsewhere worldwide: four morning ater pills currently available in canada otc.