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5/9/2008, 06:28 AM
1960 FDA approves "The Pill"
48 years ago on this day, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control pill named "Enovid-10" and made by the Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
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Enovid 10 product enclosure
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The product itself. A pill a day keeps the stork away.
Development of "the pill," as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and funded by farm implement heiress Katherine McCormick.
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Margeret Sanger, feminist and birth control advocate. Sanger's reputation among feminist academics is tarnished because of her advocay that certain classes of people should be required to limit their birthrates. Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization." She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population." Sanger saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" children from being born into a disadvantaged life, and dismissed "positive eugenics" (which promoted greater fertility for the "fitter" upper classes) as impractical. Nowadays, that kinda thinking is about the most un-PC thing a person can utter.
Katherine, one of the first women to graduate from MIT married Stanley McCormick, youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, an heir to the International Harvester fortune. McCormick bankrolled development of "the pill" with her wealth.
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Katherine Dexter McCormick
During the era of the Comstock Act in the US, 1873 to well into the 20th century, when "artificial" contraception was illegal, American women used a variety of contraception methods with various rates of effectiveness.
Sanger, who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States in 1916, hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative to "classic" contraceptives that were in use at the time.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2875/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz19.png (http://imageshack.us)
Biochemist Greg Pincus
In the early 1950s, Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School (and owner of a pretty decent porn name), began work on a birth-control pill.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/922/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz33.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Dr John Rock
Clinical tests of the pill, which used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women, were initiated in 1954. On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved the pill, leading to greater reproductive freedom for American women.
...and it was a pretty good deal for American men too.;)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8838/insane7zo8vy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
48 years ago on this day, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control pill named "Enovid-10" and made by the Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5664/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz30.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Enovid 10 product enclosure
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2606/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz36.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The product itself. A pill a day keeps the stork away.
Development of "the pill," as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and funded by farm implement heiress Katherine McCormick.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2719/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz35.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Margeret Sanger, feminist and birth control advocate. Sanger's reputation among feminist academics is tarnished because of her advocay that certain classes of people should be required to limit their birthrates. Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "dysgenic" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization." She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population." Sanger saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" children from being born into a disadvantaged life, and dismissed "positive eugenics" (which promoted greater fertility for the "fitter" upper classes) as impractical. Nowadays, that kinda thinking is about the most un-PC thing a person can utter.
Katherine, one of the first women to graduate from MIT married Stanley McCormick, youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, an heir to the International Harvester fortune. McCormick bankrolled development of "the pill" with her wealth.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1207/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz34.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Katherine Dexter McCormick
During the era of the Comstock Act in the US, 1873 to well into the 20th century, when "artificial" contraception was illegal, American women used a variety of contraception methods with various rates of effectiveness.
Sanger, who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States in 1916, hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative to "classic" contraceptives that were in use at the time.
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/2875/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz19.png (http://imageshack.us)
Biochemist Greg Pincus
In the early 1950s, Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School (and owner of a pretty decent porn name), began work on a birth-control pill.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/922/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz33.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Dr John Rock
Clinical tests of the pill, which used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women, were initiated in 1954. On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved the pill, leading to greater reproductive freedom for American women.
...and it was a pretty good deal for American men too.;)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8838/insane7zo8vy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)