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The oral contraceptive pill, informally called "the pill," contains an estrogen and progesterone, or a synthetic mimic of this hormone. The combination of these two hormones, taken in the pill and circulating in the blood, works because ________.

• the hormones prevent the proliferative or secretory phase of the menstrual cycle and the embryo will have no place to implant

• the hormones cause a thickening of the mucus plug at the cervix that prevents sperm from penetrating the womb and reaching the ovulated egg

• the hormones create an acid condition in the vagina that acts as a spermicide

• the hormones cause the woman's body to mimic the activities of a pregnancy and disrupt the ovarian cycle, preventing ovulation

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