The battle to adapt one’s fertility to the desired degree was long and arduous. Only with the pill were women able – for the first time in history – to consciously decide whether they wanted to get pregnant or not. Against the background of this revolutionary discovery and the radical societal changes that accompanied it, women from the Montafon Valley were asked about their experiences in that time and especially regarding the pill. The interviews showed that religion was a decisive factor and that contraception was sometimes characterised as “murder”. Despite this influence, the first hormonal means of contraception gained acceptance within the course of a generation, and for women born in the 1960s, resorting to the pill was already an option. A total of 19 individuals were interviewed, and their statements were used to ascertain how available this means of contraception was, or how familiar people were with it, how quickly the taboo was broken, and how quickly the pill was established as a means of contraception and changed the way people talked about the topic.