What are the pills?

The Pills

What are the pills?

The pills are hormonal reversible contraceptives.

They affect the female genital tract, and the metabolic activities of their synthetic hormonal components affect nearly every other organ system.

A successful hormonal contraceptive must be:

Extremely safe and highly effective.
It's action must be quick in onset and quickly and completely reversible, even after years of continuous use.
It must not affect libido.

The combination pills, if taken precisely as directed, are the most reliable reversible contraceptives known.

As the age, level of education, and degree of motivation, of the user, increase, the failure rates decrease.

There are 2 major categories of pills: