The pill: setting nice girls free for 45 years
May 10, 2005News & Politics
On the eve of The Pill's 45 birthday, many give it no more thought than a bottle of Bayer, but we ought to remember that: "it was illegal for single women to use the pill until the 1972 Supreme Court decision of Eisenstadt v. Baird," writes madamjujujive. "Ex-boxer Bill Baird was an unlikely contraceptive crusader. His efforts earned imprisonment, death threats, and the enmity of many feminists. He continues his crusade today because, unfortunately, the right to contraceptives is still not a freedom we can take for granted." (Metafilter)
