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Contraception: the way you take the pill has more to do with the pope than your health

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Contraception: the way you take the pill has more to do with the pope than your health

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Tuesday 12 February 2019, 10:19 AM
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The way women have been advised to take the combined contraceptive pill for the last 60 years unnecessarily increases the likelihood of taking it inco

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