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History and Controversy of the Contraceptive Pill

 

            Women and men have long endeavored many methods to avert pregnancy. Before modern methods  of birth control,  women depended on withdrawal or periodic abstinence. Unfortunately these methods have failed, although different routines for birth control medication were utilized, for example, the condom, the diaphragm, and the "rhythm" method. These practices were not totally dependable, and ladies who were utilizing these techniques were all the while having numerous kids without the goal to do as such. The oral contraceptive's effects were deeper than reducing family size. The Pill permitted ladies to have a sexual flexibility that they had not experienced any other time, and to pick their own way instructively and professionally. The Pill gave ladies an inclination of balanced self-enthusiasm, something that was principal in the women's activist and pro-choice movement in America.
             In the 1920s, a women's activist development was established. For quite a long time, ladies had battled for the privilege to vote, and it was at last conceded in 1920. This recently discovered flexibility urged ladies to stand up about their rights and convictions. Margaret Sanger was one of those ladies, and she tested the rigid customs of American culture with her perspectives on conception prevention. She started to create handouts of data about birth control medication, and distributed her perspectives in a few magazines, for example, The Woman Citizen. In 1914, Sanger challenged the Comstock Law of 1873, which decreed to be an "Act for the Suppression of Trade In, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles for Immoral Use. Sanger was particularly intrigued by an oral contraceptive strategy for birth control medication, however it had not yet been devised. In 1951, she worked to get funding for a Dr. John Rock, a gynecologist who was likewise keen on the Pill. He added to an approach to create an engineered type of progesterone, which, when utilized, would "trap" the client's body into supposing it was pregnant and subsequently not able to conceive.


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