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Cultural phenomena (21)


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1. the name of the generation who practised sexual freedom in the late 1960s
2. active substance in the micro pill
5. ____ abortionists performed illegal abortions.
6. percentage of young women in Switzerland today using the pill for contraception
9. In the third world, the use of the pill often depends on moral and _________ conditions.
10. The ____ pill has to be taken at the exact hour every day.
11. long-term contraceptive which requires a small surgical intervention
12. surname of the gynaecologist who launched the first contraceptive pill on the market

Down:

1. Today the pill is a widespread and successful means of ______________ contraception.
3. The morning-after pill is an _____________ contraceptive.
4. profession of the initiator of the pill Margaret Sanger
7. What was the name of the first hormonal contraceptive on the market?
8. The ____ Church is an opponent of active birth control.