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Sanger and McCormick felt the female contraceptive
could emancipate women. The team they worked with to make that
happen
attached other far-reaching utopian dreams
'Cause now I've got the pill.
When the Pill hit the market in 1960, 30 states had laws restricting
the advertising and sale of contraceptives. Two states banned them outright.
would creБайду номын сангаасte happy families because married couples could enjoy sex
without fears of unwanted pregnancy; that single women wouldn't have babies
anymore because they could prevent it until they
the Pill, making it the leading contraceptive in the
United States.
In her 1975 hit single, country star Loretta Lynn sings a victory
anthem for the Pill: You wined me and dine me
were married."
It gradually became clear that the Pill was not a panacea for all those
societal ills. It did not stem overpopulation, cut poverty, lower the divorce rate or put an end to unwanted pregnancies.
Those laws were rendered invalid for married women
by a 1965 Supreme Court decision and the ruling was expanded in 1972 to
cover all women. In the post-World War II baby boom era,
the feminist movement. And they used the Pill
When I was your girl Promised if I'd be your wife
You'd show me the world But all I've seen of this old world
Is a bed and a doctor bill I'm tearin' down your brooder house
to the project. "The most idealistic hopes attached to the
Pill were that it would solve the problem of overpopulation, and
poverty; that it would domestically,
the impetus for promoting an oral contraceptive for women
came not from drug companies or the government.
It came from the vision of two women: Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick.
Nor did the Pill spark the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Instead, as May writes in her new book, "America and the Pill: A History of Promise,
Peril and Liberation," women liberated themselves as the result of
VOA新闻100篇-VOA News Item 91
In May 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
approved the world's first birth control pill. Today, 12 million American women take
