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...true that a lot of people are switching away from the pill to the diaphragm," Wacker says. However, he adds, because of UHS's decentralized structure there is no sure way of telling how many women are making the change. He says he often sees a pattern where women arrive at Harvard on the pill and then switch to the diaphragm after a few years here, Blevins says that lately she has been fitting a number of women for the diaphragm before they have ever tried the pill...
...small chance of getting pregnant for no chance of illness" in later life. Dr. Paul Winig '62, a gynecologist in the UHS, who treats students, faculty and other University employees, hazards that only a little more than 50 per cent of the women he sees are still using the pill...
...hassle to get the pill or the diaphragm at UHS," Blevins says. Fitting a diaphragm "is something that takes more than just a minute," however, and is much better done on an appointment basis, perhaps with some previous information available, she says. For the pill, Brown says "most anyone at Harvard can get it by asking for it. We don't question the propriety or the morality...
Despite earlier revelations about the pill and cancer, and the growth of the women's liberation movement of the 1960's and 70's, doctors at UHS say that very few men come in to ask about male contraceptive methods. In fact, there is only a very slight increase in the Harvard male's responsibility for birth control at all, they...
Brown says he sees men come in most often when it is too late--when they accompany the woman to request a morning-after pill. UHS doctors administer the morning-after pill on request--perhaps even too freely some students' claim--within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse. Because of the pill's side-effects, such as nausea, the doctors require that the potential user fill out a questionnaire and take a pregnancy test...