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Old 2010-06-30, 19:03   Link #12316
Oliver
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Originally Posted by Smeckledorf View Post
There is such a thing as switching pills. IF Natsuhi were taking medicine then Eva could have switched it out for contraceptive.
Unfortunately, oral contraceptives were first approved for medical use in 1960. In US. They simply didn't exist at the time Krauss and Natsuhi married, and were not available legally in Japan up until well into the 90s, so Eva would need to jump hoops to get them -- no internet for mail ordering suspicious drugs yet.

Most common packages also contain different pills in the same package, often looking the same, which need to be taken in order or they don't work, so you can't simply switch them for headache medicine and expect the same results.
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