What is the Pill?
CBC Oct. 11, 1964 |
"'The Pill' is a miraculous tablet that contains as little as one thirty-thousandth of an ounce of chemical. It costs 11 ¢ to manufacture; a month's supply now sells for $2.00 retail. It is little more trouble to take on schedule than a daily vitamin. Yet in a mere six years it has changed and liberated sex and family life of a large and still growing segment of the U.S. population..."The pill,"...may well have as great an impact on the health of billions of people yet unborn as did the work of Pasteur in revealing the mechanism of infections, or of Lister in preventing them. For if the pill can defuse the population explosion, it will go toward eliminating hunger, want and ignorance."
- Time, 1967 |