THE PILL

Documentary of “The Pill ” 1960 approval of birth control on youtube. Include Margaret Sanger, McCormick, DR. Gregory Pinkest, and DR. John Rock. Explain the cultural forces birth control activists Margaret Sanger was up against in spearheading the effort to develop a contraceptive pill. 2).What are some of the historical differences regarding research studies don male vs. female participants.Describe the male medical model and what the pill did to change women’s relationships with their doctors. 3) What was the basis for the mistrust black women felt when being prescribed the pill. What is a “mississippi appendectomy?” What does the term eugenics mean and how does it relate to women. 4) Critics of the pill referred to this time in history as the” fall of civilization” Why? Do you think women’s virtue his held up to a different standard historically? 5)Describe how did harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history.