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Dear Ann Landers,
he other evening my husband said to me, "Did you take your pill, dear?" I replied, "You mean our pill, don't you? After all, The Pill is a family affair." He looked at me as if I had taken leave of my senses. My husband is typical of the newly liberated male. To my way of thinking the American husband never did accept his share of responsibility in regard to sex and pregnancy. Now that we have The Pill the husband just plain doesn't want to be bothered with anything. The only thing on his mind is did she remember to take her pill. Several months ago I read about a birth control pill for men. So far as I know that pill has never been perfected. And you can be sure it won't be since most medical research is done by men and they will continue to shunt the responsibility off on the female. We women are partly to blame because we have allowed the men to get away with it. I remember last year an un-married career girl wrote and asked if her gentleman friend should share in the cost of The Pill. (She was reluctant to ask him because she "didn't know him well enough to talk about money.") So please, Ann Landers, help liberate the long-suffering female by printing this letter.-Frailty Thy Name

Dear Frail,
When a woman takes a pill it's her pill, whether it's an aspirin, a vitamin, or what have you-so stop trying to make it a family affair, lady.



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