Okla-homey
5/9/2007, 05:36 AM
May 9, 1960: FDA approves "The Pill"
47 years ago on this day, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced oral contraceptive 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
Katherine, one of the first women to graduate from MIT (massachusetts Institute of Technology, not Murray in Tishomingo) married Stanley McCormick, youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, an heir to the vast 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 when the Comstock Act held sway which made medical contraception illegal (1873 to well into the 20th century,) American women used a variety of contraceptive 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, began work on a birth-control pill.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/922/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz33.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Dr John Rock -- pretty decent "porn name" too IMHO
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.;)
Bottomline: These...
http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/13717/2004575646074020083_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004575646074020083)
made these possible...
http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/15511/2004025227754989632_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004025227754989632)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8838/insane7zo8vy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
47 years ago on this day, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced oral contraceptive 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
Katherine, one of the first women to graduate from MIT (massachusetts Institute of Technology, not Murray in Tishomingo) married Stanley McCormick, youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, an heir to the vast 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 when the Comstock Act held sway which made medical contraception illegal (1873 to well into the 20th century,) American women used a variety of contraceptive 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, began work on a birth-control pill.
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/922/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz33.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Dr John Rock -- pretty decent "porn name" too IMHO
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.;)
Bottomline: These...
http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/13717/2004575646074020083_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004575646074020083)
made these possible...
http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/15511/2004025227754989632_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004025227754989632)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8838/insane7zo8vy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)