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![]() ![]() ![]() In his new book, "The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution," Chicago author Jonathan Eig tells the largely unknown story of the pill's difficult genesis and gestation, culminating in its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960. By making widely available a convenient and effective form of contraception, the pill gave women control over their reproductive lives and, in the process, struck the greatest blow for equality of the sexes in America since the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. ![]() Of all the inventions of the 20th century, the birth control pill arguably had the most profound effect on the everyday lives of human beings. ![]()
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