Senate hearing on the Pill held in 1970 led to an examination of the relationship between doctors and patients.
After reading Seaman's book, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson decided to take on the birth control pill.
Early on, women taking the original 10-milligram high-dose pill suffered from a wide variety of side effects.
As female sexuality and premarital sex moved out of the shadows, the Pill became a convenient scapegoat for the sexual revolution among social conservatives.
Sterilization abuse of African American women by the white medical establishment reached its height in the 1950s and 1960s.
Eugenics proposed that human perfection could be developed through selective breeding.
In the papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI ended the speculation over oral contraceptives and birth control once and for all.
On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any artificial means of birth control.
Patients participating in drug trials must be fully informed of any potential risks before receiving any treatment.
The pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle filed an application to license their drug Enovid for use as an oral contraceptive.
In the summer of 1955, Gregory Pincus visited Puerto Rico, and discovered it would be the perfect location for the human trials.
Gregory Pincus found a way to test the contraceptive powers of progesterone and sidestep Massachusetts' rigid anti-birth control laws.
