In the 1920's Margaret Sanger founded the America Birth Control League, and established the first legal, physician-led birth-control clinics. These New York City-based clinics were the harbinger of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In the 1950s, Sanger and women’s rights activist Kathleen McCormick encouraged and funded the research that lead to the creation of the birth control pill.
On May 9, 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved what would soon become the first birth control pill produced for commercial use. The drug was manufactured by the G.D. Searle Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its official moniker was Enovid-10, but it would forever be known simply as “The Pill.”I am part of the first generation to have always had access to a safe, reliable form of birth control. For this I thank Sanger and McCormick, “mothers of the pill.”
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