Scientists in America say they may have developed a drug for use in a contraceptive pill for men.

美国科学家称，他们可能开发出一种用于男性避孕药的药物。

And yet you're interested in the contraceptive pills.

但你一直在服用避孕药。

The contraceptive pill gave women freedom from the fear of pregnancy.

【freedom】避孕药可以让女性无需担心怀孕。

To make matters worse, it can also prevent medications like anti-depressants and contraceptive pills from reaching your system.

更糟糕的是，它还可以防止抗抑郁药和避孕药等药物进入您的系统。

To make matters worse, it can also prevent medications like anti-depressants and contraceptive pills from reaching your system, which of course makes them less effective.

更糟糕的是，它还会阻止一些药物进入你的身体系统中，比如说抗抑郁药和避孕药。毫无疑问，这会让药效减弱。

For example, I could have equally told you about the pioneering suffragetteand philanthropist Katharine McCormick, who single-handedly funded the development of the contraceptive pill.

例如， 我同样可以告诉你关于妇女参政先驱和慈善家凯瑟琳·麦考密克的故事，她一手资助了避孕药的开发。

So young Black women in our study tended to choose condoms over oral contraceptive pills, while the young white women tended to choose oral contraceptive pills over condoms.

巴伯：因此，在我们的研究中，年轻的黑人女性倾向于选择避孕套而不是口服避孕药，而年轻的白人女性则倾向于选择口服避孕药而不是避孕套。

Women are typically more at risk than men, because estrogen increases cholesterol stone formation, which is also why use of oral contraceptive pills that contain estrogen increase the risk of cholesterol stones.

相较于男性，通常女性更易患胆系结石，因为雌激素会促进胆固醇结石的形成，这也是为什么使用含雌激素的口服避孕药会增加女性患胆固醇结石的风险。

The problem is you don't have any libido, you have very little testosterone to act on other tissues and so forth, and so the side effects were so dramatic that it really wasn't ever going to be a contraceptive pill.

问题是你没有任何性欲，你只有很少的睾丸激素作用于其他组织等等，所以副作用非常明显， 以至于它实际上永远不会成为避孕药。

A 2011 study published in perspectives in sexual and reproductive health found that of a group of one million low-income women in California, Black women were also more likely to be given condoms by a family planning service than oral contraceptive pills.

2011 年发表在《性与生殖健康透视》杂志上的一项研究发现，在加利福尼亚州 100 万低收入女性群体中，黑人女性也更有可能通过计划生育服务机构获得安全套，而不是口服避孕药。