Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill

[CatWoman]

Young boomers were taught at home and in many schools that abstinence was 100% effective if followed diligently. However, “diligently” was difficult, if not an impossible practice against raging hormones.

Then in 1960, the first birth-control pill hit the market and the fun began. Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the birth-control pill in the U.S. The dawn of dependable contraception not only ended the post-war baby boom, it also ignited the sexual revolution and helped millions of women to enter the work force.

http://www.favstocks.com/fifty-years-after-the-pills-debut/219405/


but did you know that at its onset, they were only available to MARRIED women? They were discussing this on television this morning.

Now, tell me - what sense did that make?

[Zomby Woof]

1. Because in the good ol' days

Unmarried women never had sex. Things were perfect back then, with Republican Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, and 'Leave It To Beaver' on the TV.

You must have learned your history from a non-Texas-published textbook. :P

[CatWoman]

4. Texas

it's what for breakfast :)

[SocialistLez]

2. Mother Jones has an article on the history of birth control in their latest issue NT

[CatWoman]

5. thanks

I have to read that!!

:hi:

[Hestia]

3. I had a conversation about the Pill with women who were in college in the 1960s

Quite interesting. It seems at that time doctors would only give the Pill to young married women. Young single women in the college dormitories would pass around a wedding ring, tell the doctor that they were married to a college student, and weren't ready for a child till they graduate. The doctors knew they weren't married but they didn't really care.

[Tesha]

6. Remember, until a 1965 SCotUS decision, in many places, *NOBODY* had the right to birth control!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

[proteus_lives]

7. I'm glad it exists.

It gives women more freedom.

And as a male, I've benefited from it.

[era veteran]

8. Must be time for Loretta Lynn ' The Pill'

Was pretty controversial at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoqErv8bdcI

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. I wish they would hurry up and invent the RETROACTIVE birth control pill.

there are a lot of people on my list who need to take it.

[SocialistLez]

11. LOL. I say we pass them out at tea bag rallies. NT

[Captain Hilts]

10. What should I do to celebrate? Oh, never mind!

[CatWoman]

12. pop that pill that gives you a three-hour erection?

[BonnieJW]

13. Yes but

the pill was also very effective for regulating irregular periods, alleviating cramps and clearing acne. Needless to say, all the girls in my senior class had one or all of those three afflictions.

[Loki]

14. Yes I do remember

and I've told my two daughter's who are now in their 30's that you had to be married to have birth control prescribed for you, and they looked at me like I was crazy. I tell them now to never take this for granted, because there are still the forces out there that think it is a form of abortion and women should not have access to it, and they never sleep.