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dec 4, 1961 - Announced the pill could be prescribed on the NHS

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On the 4th of December 1961, Enoch Powell, then Minister for Health, confirmed in the House of Commons that 'birth control pills', as he called them, could be prescribed on the NHS.

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dec 4, 1961
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~ 64 years ago