F.D.A. and Birth Control Pills

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This paper looks at the history of the birth control pill and various steps along its development, as each stage is approved by the Federal Drug Administration (F.D.A.). In this article, the writer covers the period from 1960, when the first birth control pill was approved in the U.S. The writer studies the development of the contraceptive up to the present day.

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"... the Planned Parenthood Federation of America invited an American biologist Dr. Gregory Pincus to develop an ideal contraceptive that was simple, safe and esthetically acceptable to both husband and wife. Government and private sources donated some of the funds and Planned Parenthood put up the seed money and within a few years the birth control pill was being tested in Haiti and Puerto Rico. The first birth control pill approved in the United States, by the Federal Drug Administration (F.D.A.) in ... "

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