the pill collection

статья в
Guardian
с некоторыми ссылками, в частности
Fifty years on, 200 million more women need the pill

...  in 50 years we are celebrating the demise of this human pesticide known as "the pill." пишет, что пилюля привела к росту разводов, росту внебрачной рождаемости и тому, что традиционная семья стала исключением; к этому же приведёт и ЭКО :)

on Sunday we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill (NYT)-- cтатейко начинается с античных правил предохранения от зачатия (женщина, оттрахавшысь, должна попрыгать, а потом 9 прыжеков назад, мб, в этом что-то есть ???)
btw = The Food and Drug Administration actually gave G.D. Searle the go-ahead to market the first oral contraceptive (not counting bees) on June 23, 1960. But the F.D.A. announced its intention to approve the pill on May 9, which also happens to be Mother’s Day this year and, therefore, too good to resist.

Sex o'clock in America by Raquel Welch, Special to CNN

In her 1975 hit single, country star Loretta Lynn sings a victory anthem for the Pill:
You wined me and dined me
When I was your girl
Promised if I'd be your wife
You'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world
Is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house
'Cause now I've got the pill.

from the VoA 50 years after introduction of the Pill, reproductive rights still at stake for women worldwide also mp3 available
Abstinence-only sex education denies young women opportunity to have the knowledge they need to make their own informed decisions... that could help explain why the United States has a higher teen pregnancy rate than any other country in the industrialized world. And this year, for the first time since 1991, that rate is on the rise.

Ability to plan pregnancies transforms lives Times Herald-Record

We know that about 92 percent of women have sexual intercourse before marriage ---> It was the same in 1954 (before the pill) as it is today. >> "Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954-2003" by Lawrence B. Giner, director of Domestic Research at the Guttmacher Insitute << must see

The Pill was the idea of a conservative Catholic nurse, Margaret Sanger, who hoped that it would strengthen marriage, combat poverty, generate happiness, eliminate unwanted pregnancies and even deliver world peace. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk)

the pill did not spark the sexual revolution. Nor did it cause a sudden drop in the U.S. fertility rate
The pill is America's favorite form of reversible birth control. (Sterilization is the leader overall.) Nearly a third of women who want to prevent unwanted pregnancies use it. "In 2008, Americans spent more than $3.5 billion on birth control pills," says McGill
According to the most recent government data, from 2002, more than eight in 10 American women ages 15 to 44 had taken the pill at some point in their lives.
Despite widespread use of the pill, half of all U.S. pregnancies are unplanned, often conceived by women who were taking an oral contraceptive but missed doses. (оч приличная статейко из какой-то богом забытой news-press) + отл фотка Сэнгер+Маккормик

Fifty years ago this week, the birth control pill hit the market and released women from the fear of pregnancy
the first I heard of the pill was in early 1961 when a student at St John's stood on a chair in the cafeteria, held up a packet of pills and announced she was taking them. She was promptly expelled.
I never wanted to have children. My mother told me that I never spoke about "when I get married" when I was a child. I thought marriage was an odd institution and ritual. I did, however, want to have sex. I was determined not to get pregnant. The first man I slept with used condoms as did the next few.... Switching methods -- from condoms to a diaphragm to pills and finally to sterilization was linked to how I saw myself.. Дальше она оч любопытно пишет о развитии своей сексуальности и ответственности: Sterilization allowed me to completely concentrate on my partner and our pleasure. It was impossible to become pregnant. I said to myself: "This is what men feel like during sex (+ со ссылкой на А Сэнгера: у метери МС было 11 живых рождений и 7 выкидышей)

Washington Post:
Enovid had already been on the market for three years as a treatment for menstrual disorders; its approval as an oral contraceptive marked the first time a medicine would not treat or prevent an illness, but would rather be prescribed to healthy people.
With the new pill, an advertisement claimed, women would be "freed from their chains at last." The ad showed a naked Andromeda, an Ethiopian princess in Greek mythology, bound against a rock as a sacrifice to an angry sea monster. Enovid, the ad suggested, would liberate her from those chains.
It is hailed as one of the 10 greatest public-health accomplishments of the 20th century.

Half of American pregnancies remain unplanned.

Sanger, who went on to found the group that would later become Planned Parenthood, was 80 when the pill was approved, and her grandson Alexander, now chair of International Planned Parenthood, said his grandmother had only one thing to say: "What took so long?"
In 1970, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, the typical U.S. woman married at 20 and had her first child at 21. Today, women are having their first child four years later, on average, and they are marrying six years later.

ещё статейка из ВП (оч неплохая)
 
NewsWeek - Five myths about oral contraceptives.
1: The pill started the sexual revolution.
2: The pill is a women's issue
3: The pill was an immediate boon to single women
4: Male doctors were responsible for the development of the pill
5: The pill provided the single biggest boost to women's health and well being in the 20th century

(CBS)  According to a new CBS News Poll, more than half the women of America believe the Pill has made their lives better.
Is it a paradox to wish Happy Birthday to the birth control pill?

A Brief History of Birth Control (TIME line)


It neither ended poverty nor unleashed sexual anarchy, but ‘the pill’ did change America in surprising ways (boston.com)
Birth control provided a perfect battleground for social changes already afoot in American post-war society, especially the fight for women’s equality and the toppling of monolithic authority figures — chief among these was the Catholic Church, whose own tortured history with the pill is one of the book’s most fascinating sections. Many will be shocked to learn how close the Vatican came to accepting the pill in the early 1960s. In the end, of course, Pope Paul VI sided with the minority of his advisory council (60 of 64 theologians had proposed ending the ban) and affirmed the church’s continued opposition to any form of contraception (save for the rhythm method, which they only approved in 1951).

it's simply known as "the Pill"(USNWR)

No medication has come close to the birth control pill in terms of social, political and medical impact. In terms of career opportunities [for women], it's had more of an impact than anything else. The proportion of women pursuing medical careers has gone from about 10 percent to close to 50 percent
in 1961, barely a year after the Pill had been approved, the head of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut was arrested for providing it to women. That case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, in 1965, ruled that there was a constitutional right for married women to use birth control pills.
It wasn't until 1972 that single women were granted the right to take the Pill.
"Physicians have come to understand that, in many respects, suppressing the ovarian cycle with birth control pills is more natural than having 500 ovulations in a lifetime," said Dr. Steven Goldstein, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Mother Jones.Com ещё одна хронологическая таблица, более полная чем в Тайм + слайдшоу:

John Calvin calls masturbation "monstrous" and withdrawal "doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring."

1869 Pope Pius IX (слева) bans abortion, saying the soul is born at conception. Блаженный Пий IX (лат. Pius PP. IX, итал. Pio Nono) (в миру Джованни Мария, граф Мастаи-Ферретти; 13 мая 1792 — 7 февраля 1878) — римский папа с 16 июня 1846 по 7 февраля 1878. Вошёл в историю как Папа, провозгласивший догмат о Непорочном Зачатии Пресвятой Девы Марии и созвавший I Ватиканский Собор, утвердивший догматически учение о безошибочности Римского первосвященника.
+ причислил к лику святых греко-католического епископа Иосафата Кунцевича, убитого православными Витебска. Понтификат Пия IX — самый продолжительный в истории Римско-католической церкви, после апостола Петра. Он продолжался 31 год, 7 месяцев и 22 дня. Пий IX погребён в римской базилике Сан-Лоренцо-фуори-ле-Мура. В 2000 папа Иоанн Павел II причислил Пия IX к лику блаженных.

Politics Daily:
пилюльные пионеры: Марго, Катя и Карл (далеко не все перечислены)
Historians consider 1961, the year John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, as the cusp of a new post-Baby Boomer cohort. А старина Эйзенхауэр сказал: контроль рождаемости -- не наше дело :)

Fifty years of the Pill: How it freed women from the fear of unwanted pregnancy, but also brought dangers -- немного в стоорону от США, даже Стоупс поминают

By Jenni Murray (Daily Mail)

Which came first, the pill or social revolution? (The Irish Times)

As recently as 1983, Dr Andrew Rynne was fined at Naas District Court for selling 10 condoms to one of his patients over a weekend when the pharmacies were closed. Rynne was the first to be prosecuted under the 1979 Health (Family Planning) Act – Charles Haughey’s “Irish solution to an Irish problem” – which allowed for married couples to be prescribed contraceptives for “bona-fide family planning purposes”. All hypocritical nonsense of course; by 1978, some 48,000 Irish women were already on the pill, according to an Irish Medical Association estimate.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical, Humanae Vitae (reportedly against the advice of a papal commission), and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (who was equally appalled by tampons) was his willing Irish helper. But neither was it welcomed by “a lot of male members of the medical profession”, says Jones. “I remember doctors who practically blessed themselves when the pill was mentioned . . .”
A countrywoman, now in her 80s, recalls being directed by her renowned Catholic gynaecologist to have no more children after her sixth, as another pregnancy could “kill” her. She asked him what she should do. “Go home to your husband, and live as brother and sister,” he pronounced.
Carl Djerassi, the scientist who synthesised the pill on October 15th 1951, compared the impact of the discovery with the effect the first explosion of an atomic bomb had on many physicists, “overnight converting ivory-tower academics into persons tainted by the societal impact of their research”.
она тоже связывает свободу и ответственность