Before the introduction of birth control pills, the world did not have many advances in the contraceptive sector. This birth control pill was a revolutionary breakthrough and was approved to be the best contraceptive method in the world. "Canadian doctors had been dispensing contracepti

Pope Paul VI was strictly against it use but the women of Canada found a dream come true in the pill and thus fought for the rights to have the pill and that its use should be legalized. The Church faced a crisis back then and women started to voice their opinion. However soon the pill was legalized and today when one looks back at the decision of legalization, one realizes that Canada took the right decision. At first even when the pill was introduced, it was illegal to sell or advertise it in Canada. This law was not enforced much in the past and only a couple of enforcement cases are known where a person giving out information regarding the pill has been arrested. With the introduction of the pill, Canada moved a step ahead progressing like its powerful neighbor. The pill is being used widely in Canada today and in a survey it was observed that "Oral contraceptive use, at some point in the reproductive years, is almost universal. A striking 84% of all respondents in this survey had taken the pill at some time: 94% of married women, 70% of unmarried" (Anonymous, p.183). Had

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