This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people ...

On May 9, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first commercially-made birth control pill. This early form of the hormone drug was widely marketed as a solution to unwanted pregnancy.

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

Substantially rev. and updated ed. of: Woman's body, woman's right. 2nd ed. 1990. Introduction : birth control, the moral property of women -- From folk medicine to prohibition to resistance. The ...

Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: “To ask this generation to go ...

As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women with messages about the pill, many are questioning what they’ve long been told. As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women ...