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- Title: On the 50th Birthday of the Birth Control Pill, Looking Ahead to What's Next
- Author : Women's Health Activist
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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Happy 50th, Pills! You have really arrived in the world. Not only are you 50 years old, but many, many versions of you have come about in the last half century, and you've gotten better with age. Your accomplishments are impressive, and your unexpected benefits are equally notable. We salute and celebrate you, Birth Control Pills, but also hope you'll share the limelight in future years with some up-and-coming stars in the family planning world. These other players have great potential for women's health--if we can get them out into the public more broadly. The ability to control fertility was a tremendous breakthrough. The impact for reproductive health in general, and for women's health and lives in particular, has been felt worldwide. The history of the birth control pill (or oral contraceptive pills, OCPs) reaches back to the early part of the 20th century when Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, dreamed of a pill that would prevent pregnancy and be as easy to take as aspirin. Birth control pills were developed in the 1950s by scientist Gregory Pincus and physician John Rock, aided by advocacy and donations from Sanger and Katharine McCormick, one of the first women graduates of M.I.T. and heiress to a large fortune. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved OCPs in 1960.
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