Author: Lucrezia Caselli Country: Italy
Source: https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid
Summary In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and was consequently arrested for distributing information on contraception. While she believed that women’ freedom depended on their control over their bodies, her views were deeply imbricated in colonialism. With the biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, she developed Enovid, the first contraceptive pill. A look at the colonial history of reproductive medicine allows us to understand how discourses around gender and race affect the health of non-white communities.
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