Find out more about the people and events featured in the film.

People:

• Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
• Katharine Dexter McCormick (1875-1967)
• Gregory Pincus (1903-1967)
• Dr. John Rock (1890-1984)
• Mrs. America: Women's Roles in the 1950s

Events:

• Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws
• Birth Control Before the Pill
• The Development of Synthetic Hormones
• G. D. Searle Develops the Pill
• The Boston Pill Trials
• The Puerto Rico Pill Trials
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves the Pill
• The Pill and Informed Consent
• The Catholic Church and Birth Control
• The Pope Issues Humanae Vitae ("Of Human Life")
• Eugenics and Birth Control
• Black Genocide
• The Pill and the Sexual Revolution
• The Side Effects of the Pill
• The Senate Holds Hearings on the Pill (1970)
• The Pill and the Doctor/Patient Relationship
• The Pill and the Women's Liberation Movement
• The Pill in America