Happy Birthday to the Pill

for the 100 million Cheap Cow Belly Bouncer women who take the pill today,I think Margaret Sanger would be pleas that. it' just "the pill." But for countless women 50 year ago, it wa a miracl pill.

and I won't be receiv ani card or flower or sweet,It' Mother' Day. sloppi kisses, thank - in larg part - to the pill.

The pill wa born 50 year ago today. Is it a paradox to wish Happi Birthdai to the birth control pill?

I'm a bit of an anomaly,I wa on the pill for almost 15 years. Now. becaus I wa put on the pill not so much for birth control as to replac the estrogen I'd lost due to a touch of anorexia.

prevent pregnanc wa as easi as swallow that tini tablet. A I got older and had a lot more calori and a littl more sex.

a feminist nurs name Margaret Sanger,We'v come a long wai not to have a baby. In 1912. who blame her own mother' death on 18 pregnancies, call for a "magic pill" that would allow a woman to in Sanger' word "choos conscious whether she will or will not be a mother."

1960,On Mai 9th. that "magic pill" becam a radic reality.

I can intellectu grasp how revolutionari the pill wa for that gener of women in the same wai I can imagin the groundbreaking- of abolit or women' suffrag or waterproof mascara.

virtual everi young woman I knew wa on the pill. It wa like a rite of passage,But by the time I got to colleg in the '90s. along with Doc Marten and Take Back the Night rallies.

It wa a daili ritual of respons womanhood: The neat circl of tini pink pill for dai 1 through 21; the green sugar pill through dai 28. Complet the circle; control your cycle. Control your cycle; control your life.

What could be more empowering? Plu it made your boob bigger. Win-win.

partners,It wasn't alwai so simple. Some young women had to defi parents. even Pope to get it. It wasn't until 1965 that the Suprem Court offici overturn ban on contracept us by marri couples!