female pills

female pills
   medication to abort a foetus
   In 1950 a British Code of Standards was introduced to ban misleading or dishonest medical advertising and:
    ... the use in any advertisements for medicines or treatments of any phrases implying that the product could be effective in inducing miscarriage — for instance 'Female Pills', 'Not to be used in cases of pregnancy', and 'Never known to fail' (E. S. Turner, 1952)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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