Blogs May 4, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Happy 50th Birthday, the Pill

Cienna Madrid
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Very informative.
leek on May 4, 2010 at 4:18 PM Report this
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Sounds like we should grant Statehood to Puerto Rico in memory of all their hard work on this.
Will in Seattle on May 4, 2010 at 4:26 PM Report this
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Yams, it's all about yams.
pragmatic on May 4, 2010 at 4:49 PM Report this
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Thank you, Mother Sanger! Overall she had some pretty fucked up ideas about sexuality, but she did women a tremendous service.
catballou on May 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM Report this
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Cienna,
Here's an interesting book review on the history of the "Pill":
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=…

I shall read this book.
lark on May 4, 2010 at 5:23 PM Report this
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Don't know if the Time article mentions him--their Web site is perenially fucked up for me--but Stanford chem professor and polymath Carl Djerassi also played an important role in the Pill's development.
rob! on May 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM Report this
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pereNNially
rob! on May 4, 2010 at 5:45 PM Report this
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The only reason I am alive is because I was conceived in December, 1958, before the pill was available. The 'rents went on a day trip to Eastern WA and had to stay overnight because of snow on the passes. Mom didn't bring her diaphragm because it was just supposed to be a day trip.
Years later, as I grew older, ( I was a really late in life kid) and reviewed the family dynamics involved, I realized I was a mistake. Mom, when confronted, said harriedly "that I was a happy accident."
Despite my origins I am happy to have had a choice, myself.
on May 4, 2010 at 9:50 PM Report this
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a lemon sounds like a very very bad and painful thing to stick up there.... no no no.

Great article though, I'm so glad to be on the pill. So easy.
sepiolida on May 4, 2010 at 10:47 PM Report this
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Thank the only Goddess...
agitproper on May 5, 2010 at 2:33 AM Report this
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Before you idiots go jerking each other off over how great the pill is, read this...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/w-hca042910.php
on May 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM Report this
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Thanks for posting the article, Cienna. I got through about the first quarter of this at the dentist's office yesterday, and probably wouldn't have thought to look online for the rest. I thought you could only access stories from Time and Newsweek and the like if you were a subscriber.
Knat on May 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM Report this

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