{"id":8998,"date":"2026-05-23T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:31:48","slug":"by-changing-womens-lives-the-pill-changed-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8998","title":{"rendered":"By changing women\u2019s lives, the pill changed the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p><strong>By LAURA UNGAR, AP Medical Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pill helped give birth to modern America.<\/p>\n<p>Known by one simple word, the revolutionary oral contraceptive \u2014 approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 66 years ago \u2014 didn\u2019t just prevent innumerable pregnancies. It gave women new freedom, changing family life and society forever.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8991\">Orange County voters can now cast their ballots in person<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts introduction in the 1960s afforded U.S. women this unprecedented control over their childbearing and subsequent life trajectories,\u201d says Suzanne Bell of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>The pill disentangled sex from procreation. Women no longer needed a man\u2019s cooperation to control their fertility.<\/p>\n<p>The pill\u2019s greatest champion was a woman. Margaret Sanger, who founded the precursor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, helped spearhead its development with financial support from her friend, philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick. Sanger said, \u201cNo woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Margot Riphagen wears a birth control pill costume\" class=\"wp-image-8993\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18-1024x683.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/da7a18b6f029eae5f21db861baf53e18.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, La., wears a birth control pill costume during a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo\/Charles Dharapak, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A birth control pill container\" class=\"wp-image-8994\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725-673x1024.webp\" width=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725-673x1024.webp 673w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725-197x300.webp 197w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725-768x1168.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725-1010x1536.webp 1010w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a78afe47421a252989610b164d18c725.webp 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 A birth control pill container is designed to look like a woman\u2019s makeup compact for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., of Raritan, N.J., May 28, 1999. (AP Photo\/Mike Derer, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. John Rock developer of the birth control pill, sits at his desk at home\" class=\"wp-image-8995\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced-1024x709.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced-1024x709.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced-768x531.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced-1536x1063.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1033fb3417697d5b668a91f830629ced.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 Dr. John Rock, 82, developer of the birth control pill, sits at his desk at home in Temple, N.H., Sept. 21, 1973. (AP Photo\/William C. Chaplis, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Min-Chuech Chang poses for a photo\" class=\"wp-image-8996\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7-1024x694.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7-1024x694.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7-768x520.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7-1536x1041.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/733ae52f60951d7f77d60d84afdc86a7.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 Dr. Min-Chuech Chang, of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass. and one of the pioneers of the Pill, poses for a photo on Aug. 12, 1974. His fertility research with the late Dr. Gregory Pincus led to the discovery 20 years ago of compounds that female animals could take orally to stop ovulation\u2013and prevent pregnancy. (AP Photo, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 1979\"=\"\" alt=\"A packet of \" class=\"wp-image-8997\" from=\"\" height=\"750\" pill\"=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d-1024x750.webp\" the=\"\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d-1024x750.webp 1024w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d-300x220.webp 300w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d-768x563.webp 768w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d-1536x1126.webp 1536w, https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/010b29cccc7560af30102739defb1d0d.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>FILE \u2013 A packet of \u201cthe pill\u201d from 1979 is on display in an exhibit at the Museum of Sex in New York, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews, File)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><div>FILE \u2013 Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, La., wears a birth control pill costume during a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo\/Charles Dharapak, File)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min Chueh Chang and OB-GYN Dr. John Rock were instrumental in the pill\u2019s development. It uses synthetic progesterone and estrogen hormones to prevent pregnancy, mainly by stopping ovulation but also by thickening cervical mucus and making it hard for sperm to enter the uterus. When used perfectly, it prevents pregnancy 99% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Within two years of its initial distribution, more than a million American women were taking it. Monumental social change followed. Researchers have linked the pill to later marriages and greater educational attainment and labor force participation among women. It also played a part in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8989\">When to go principal to principal in commercial real estate<\/a><\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pill spurred backlash, too. In the 1960s, Pope Paul VI condemned it and many states outlawed contraceptives. Married women were exempted from state prohibitions in 1965, but the ban for single women persisted in some states for years.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision ending the constitutional right to abortion, some worry the right to use contraception is also under threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith any device or procedure that gives women more reproductive or sexual autonomy, there are always groups that resist and push back,\u201d says Bell, pointing to the recent push for women to have more children.<\/p>\n<p>But on the whole, women aren\u2019t heeding that message. U.S. fertility rates have reached a historic low, and the pill remains extremely popular. Today, it\u2019s the most common form of reversible birth control in America, used by more than 8 million people \u2014 and still shaping the lives of individuals and the nation.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. This story is part of a recurring series, \u201c American Objects,\u201d marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. For more stories on the anniversary, click here.<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8987\">Behavior of teen in mosque shooting led police to seize family guns a year before attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pill helped give birth to modern America. 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