MAY 9

On this date in 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a drug (Enovid) for use as an oral birth control. It was the first of it's kind.

It took a number of years before it and others were widely accepted but eventually it helped usher in the 'free love era' in the U.S. - the 1960's sexual revolution, if you will.  It changed everything.

On one front, the fight became whether doctors should be allowed to prescribe them to unmarried women.  On another, the question was whether we should drastically limit the number of children born in our country.  On another, now that we could control conception whether the purpose of marriage had changed - it changed the country's attitude toward marriage forever.  In the late 1960's and thru the 1970's, the mantra was "Make love - not war."

Science helped break up the family in America, if you ask me.
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