in common use that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser, something you could buy at the supermarket or maybe several things you could mix together, items so safe and so ordinary they would never be banned, that you could prepare in your own home that you could flush your uterus without you ever needing to know if you were pregnant or about to be. a grew of earl grey, tea and ground cash monoor coca-cola with a dusting of cayenne pepper. things you might have on your shelves right now just waiting for some clever person to put them together, some stay-at-home mother with a chemistry degree rattling around her kitchen late at night. something like the herbal concoctions. when i was a child growing up on an island in the caribbean, an island whose inhabitants were mostly descendants of people force forcibly fraught there from africa, i noticed my mother and her friends would gather together at some spot in our yard and talk and sip and drink some very dark, hot drink that they had made from various leaves and bark of tre