I also loved Raquel Welch’s brassy column, KLo, but I do think most folks overrate the power of the Pill as a technology shock. The separation of sex from reproduction was a great technology shock, but what was that technology?
If you think the answer is the Pill, ask yourself: Why is it that less than ten years after the introduction of the Pill and the creation of a constitutional right to contraception by the Supreme Court, that same Court created a right to an abortion?
If we had truly separated sex from reproduction, why would we need abortion?
It was the failure of the Pill to reliably separate sex and reproduction that led quickly to Roe v. Wade.