Happy Birthday

It was on this day in 1960 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the world's first birth control pill.

It was one of the first times a drug had ever been approved by the FDA for a purpose other than to cure an illness or relieve pain. It was also the first time that a new medication was known not by its official name, Enovid-10, but simply as "the pill."

Some people hoped it would end unwanted pregnancies but today about 50 percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned.

(The Writer's Almanac)

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This could explain why my pill tried to escape this morning. Not in a vain attempt at suicide (feelings of uselessness, I assumed) but instead to join the celebration.....