On May 9, 1960, the pill was approved by the FDA — giving women more control over their fertility than ever before. 'To know that I had control, that I had choice, that I controlled my body,' one woman says, 'it gave me a whole new lease on life.'
Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. The birth control pill was approved by the FDA 60 years ago this week.Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. The birth control pill was approved by the FDA 60 years ago this week.As a young woman growing up in a poor farming community in Virginia in the 1940 and '50s, with little information about sex or contraception, sexuality was a frightening thing for"We lived in constant fear, I mean all of us," she said.
"I was very fortunate; I did not get pregnant, but a lot of my friends did. And of course, they just got married and went into their little farmhouses," she said."But I just felt I just had to get out."By that time, Cato said, the pill allowed the couple to avoid having more babies — and she eventually was able to go on to college.
Ross, now 66, said by the time she came of age around 1970, the pill was giving young women more control over their fertility than previous generations had enjoyed.
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