Pope Paul VI was right about The Pill - now everyone else is finally catching up

(Davina McCall fronts a new Channel 4 Documentary which exposes the problems with and dangers of The Pill)

The contraceptive pill has had a bad few months. In March, a study foundthat use of progesterone-only contraceptives is associated with a 20 to 30 per cent higher risk of breast cancer. As the feminist writer Caroline Criado-Perez noted in the Times, “that’s another unwanted side-effect, to go along with the increased risk of blood clots we already knew about (blood clots are not more likely if you’re on a progesterone-only method)." The increase in the risk of breast cancer was associated with all forms of progestogen-containing contraception, regardless of the method of delivery: patch, implant, coil or pill.