Photo: #The cover of "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation," by Elaine Tyler May.

Fifty years later, the Pill's legacy examined


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The Pill promised freedom from unwanted pregnancy and, some feared, a total breakdown in morality. University of Minnesota professor Elaine Tyler May writes in her new book that oral contraceptives changed women's lives, but not in ways people predicted 50 years ago.

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