Mother’s Day seems like a strange time to celebrate birth control, which, on its most basic level, is about helping people to ...

On May 9, 1960, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first oral contraceptive for use as birth ...

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people ...

Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: “To ask this generation to go ...