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Jan 23, 2023 · July 13, 2023: The FDA approves a birth control pill, called Opill, to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States. The contraceptive pill is considered more...
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Apr 22, 2010 · One of the world’s largest studies of the Pill — 46,000 women followed for nearly 40 years — was released this March. It found that women who take the Pill are less likely to die prematurely ...
- Nancy Gibbs
An estimated 50 to 80 million women worldwide take the Pill. 1988 At the FDA's urging, drug companies remove the original high-dose oral contraceptives from the market.
Oct 18, 2023 · Between 2017 and 2019, 14 percent of all women ages 15 to 49 were on the pill in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [12]
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Jun 3, 2015 · Her activism is a big reason that birth control became legal 50 years ago. Here’s the story: In 1960, the FDA approved the pill as a contraceptive — but in some states, like Connecticut, it wasn’t actually legal for doctors to prescribe it.
Jun 23, 2015 · But in May of 1960, the FDA had cleared Enovid, the trade name of an oral contraceptive by G.D. Searle and Company, and by June 23, “the Pill” — as oral contraceptives would soon be commonly...
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Jun 7, 2015 · Fifty years ago, on June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on contraception, which would have a profound affect on women’s lives. The birth control pill had come to the...
