Oral contraceptive pill
Píldora anticonceptiva
- Date
- 1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Worcester Foundation, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States; Searle, Skokie, Illinois (Enovid)
- Credited to
- Gregory Pincus, Min Chueh Chang, John Rock; Carl Djerassi and Luis Miramontes (norethisterone, Syntex, Mexico, 1951); funded by Katharine McCormick and Margaret Sanger
- People
- 👤 Ferdinand Peeters1918–1998
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
The first oral hormonal contraceptive, approved by the FDA in 1960. It separated sexuality from reproduction and gave women control over their fertility.
What it led to
- The sexual revolution and the mass entry of women into work and university
- The fall in the birth rate and the demographic transition
- Religious and legal debates over contraception and abortion
Built on
- Cortisone therapy1948-1949
- Synthesis of norethisterone15 de octubre de 1951
- Field trial of the contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico1956
- cortisone and steroid chemistry
- synthetic progesterone (Syntex)
Made possible
- hormonal contraception (IUD, implants)
- family planning