Easy Birth Control Arrives





Brown Glass Bottle
Enovid came in two doses, 10mg and 5mg. Like all pill prescriptions of the time, it was delivered in a small bottle. When the Food and Drug Administration approved it for birth control use in 1960, it had already been on the market for almost two years, as a treatment for menstrual irregularities.





1960: The birth control pill wins the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA gives its blessing to the 10-milligram dose of Enovid, which by then had been in clinical trials for four years, and the Searle drug company starts selling the pill a month later.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/05/dayintech_0509








Part of the quest for freedom took the expression of Sexual Freedom. In the early 1950s, Margaret Sanger introduced philanthropist Katharine Dexter McCormick to biologist Gregory Pincus who was then studying the hormonal aspects of mammalian reproduction and had recently begun testing the therapeutic properties of steroid compounds for the drug company G.D. Searle. Shortly thereafter, McCormick provided funding for Pincus to develop the “birth control pill,” an oral contraceptive released on the market as Enovid in 1960.


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