The original female birth control pill was developed as a fertility treatment, but when it failed, researchers realized they had a potentially effective contraceptive on their hands.

女性避孕药最初用来治疗不育，但失败之后，研究人员却发现他们拥有了一种有潜在避孕效果的药。

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2008) — The contraceptive pill may disrupt women's natural ability to choose a partner genetically dissimilar to themselves, research at the University of Liverpool has found.

2008年8月12日《每日科学》：利物浦大学的研究发现，避孕药可能破坏女人选择和她们基因不相似的伴侣的本能。

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UK researchers from the Medical research Council Reproductive Biology Unit in have previously carried out surveys showing that men would be willing to take a contraceptive pill if one was available.

英国医疗研究委员会生育生物学小组之前的调查显示，如果有避孕药，男性愿意服用。

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Today,12 million American women take the Pill, making it the leading contraceptive in the United States.

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Which brings us to: well, it is women taking the contraceptive pill who are causing this pollution.

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When another reader asked if the contraceptive pill was "deductible", she replied: "Only if they don't work".

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The contraceptive pill, available in America for nearly 40 years, is banned in Japan, although the ban may be lifted soon.

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