Access to modern fertility control methods such as hormonal contraception (HC) impact women's health and well-being in many ways. Yet, little is known about how the pill's introduction altered the incidence of suicide among adolescent girls, a potential side effect of HC use reported in recent epidemiological studies. This paper studies how the diffusion of HC after approval for contraceptive use is associated with changes in the incidence of suicide among young women in Sweden. Although HC sales increased rapidly, with over a quarter of fecund females using some form of HC on an annual basis within five years of HC's approval for contraceptive use, and over half of teenage girls a decade later, data from death registers following cohorts of Swedish women born since 1941 reveal no evidence of a positive correlation between the pill's diffusion across markets and time and the occurrence of suicide and accidental poisonings among teenage girls.