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Margret Sanger coins the term "Birth Control"
Planned Parenthood's founder Margret Sanger coins the term "birth control" and uses the phrase in an issue of "The Woman Rebel". Sanger is indicted for violations of the Comstock Law, which outlawed contraception and declared information about it "obscene".
(http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-sanger-9471186) -
First Birth Control Center
Margret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY.
(http://womensenews.org/2003/07/margaret-sanger-starts-first-birth-control-clinic/) -
Margaret is Arrested
10 days later, Margaret and others are arrested and the clinic is closed down. Sanger spends 30 days in prison.
(http://time.com/4065338/margaret-sanger-clinic-history/) -
"The Pill" Arrives
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the birth control pill as an oral contraceptive.
(https://www.healthcentral.com/article/the_pill_arrives_may_9_1960) -
Griswold v. Connecticut
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that married couples have the right to contraception in a case triggered by Planned Parenthood's first clinic in New Haven, Connecticut
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_griswold.html) -
Options
Women in the United States can now select from different birth control options.
(https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states) -
2/3
Two-thirds of all Catholic women are using contraceptives.
(https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states) -
Eisenstadt v. Baird
The Supreme Court declares a Massachusetts law prohibiting the sale of contraceptives to unmarried women unconstitutional.
(http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/family-law/family-law-keyed-to-weisberg/private-family-choices-constitutional-protection-for-the-family-and-its-members/eisenstadt-v-baird/) -
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn's country music song "The Pill" is released. The song becomes one of her biggest hits, a feminist classic, and one of The Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dip54axBnIs) -
"The Economist"
"The Economist" magazine names the birth control pill one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
(https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/pill)
