I am not sure what the point was here.

You mean women should not use birth control because it "causes" acne and "messes up" their hormones?

Pregnancy isn't as bad as STDs?

Think of how many more unwanted, unplaned conceptions there would have been without birth control.

I think Ann Landers once said that the best birth control is a simple asprin - women should place one between their knees and hold it there in place.

"Ed from Larchmont" needs to know about freakonomics. You essentially say that people on the pill are more likely to get divorced.

There is also data that says that married people are happier than people living together without a marriage licence.
So, would forcing co-habitating people to legally marry make them happy? No. the fact is that people whom choose marriage are already people whom believe in the moral value of marrying; religious people, people whom are educated and psychologically and socioeconomically stable, etc. These people make the marriage licence work. It is not the other way around. Or, at least co-habitating people would not be happier in marriage than in living together without marriage.

Thus, people on the pill have a high divorce rate because of other negative things going on in their lives. The use of birth control is a symptom or a sign but not a cause. And ironically, it would be worse if these people had children or more children. People whom use " NFP" may have a low divorce rate but, are their marriages and/or home lives really happy or are they staying together in misery? Merely not being divorced has never meant stable households.
-Unless you re-define happy relationships away from low divorce-rates.

Human beings were killed because the pill is an "abortafacient"

It would have happened by parential neglect and abuse and abandonment otherwise since this is the result when people have children they never wanted.

Yeah, but Ed would like a woman to exercise some self control!

Hey Ed--what's the difference between contraception using the pill and that using NFP? Absolutely nothing except the method. The end result is still a woman choosing not to get pregnant. In other words: sex is removed from procreation. Why people act like NFP is not still birth control is beyond me. It is; it's merely a different way of doing it. So perhaps you should get off your high horse about it.

I feel certain Erica Jong was not the only woman of the Feminist generation to have sex. She certainly has little experience with the pill and admitted it didn't change her life. I'm still baffled at what her daughter was doing on the show. You can do better than this and you know it. I suggest you try again.

Would have enjoyed more perspectives on this story. Seems like both the guests decided not to use the pill much at all. Would have liked more points of view.

Also why play such a limited interview twice? Why not rebroadcast the Time Square history section, at least that was interesting.

Would have enjoyed more perspectives on this story. Seems like both the guests decided not to use the pill much at all. Would have liked more points of view.

Also why play such a limited interview twice? Why not rebroadcast the Time Square history section, at least that was interesting.

Erica Jong and her daughter sound like they are drunk, how about some pre-interviews this is a trainwreck

Natural family planning is more effective (99% effective) as opposed to the pill, 92% effective over a year.

The pill really re-defined sex away from procreation. There were at least two very negative results:
-many human being were killed, since the pill is an abortafacient.
-the divorce rate went up greatly, since the divorce rate of people on the pill is about 50%, and the divorce rate of people who use natural family planning (NFP) is less than 5%.

What a depressed, cynical old woman Erica Jong sounds like!