Late one winter night in Manhattan, Margaret Sanger met Gregory Pincus to talk about nothing less than a revolution. No guns or bombs would be involved—only sex, the more the better.

When birth control advocate Margaret Sanger asked Gregory Pincus to come up with a birth control pill, he knew one of the hardest parts of the process would be the large-scale human trials ...

“Margaret Sanger approached Dr. Pincus at a Manhattan dinner party, and she was very taken with him,” said Thoru Pederson, a University of Massachusetts Medical School professor who headed the ...

In the early 1950s, nurse and activist Margaret Sanger met with researcher Gregory Pincus to begin a decade-long quest to transform birth control. With the help of Katharine McCormick, a wealthy ...

Less than a decade after birth control activist Margaret Sanger first told scientist Gregory Pincus about her hopes for a "magic pill," it appeared that success was imminent. John Rock. Timepix ...

When Pincus met the feminist crusader Margaret Sanger in 1950 and she implored him to go to work on the development of a birth-control pill, he knew the project carried enormous risk.

The company was G.D. Searle. The product was Enovid. And the most significant year was 1960. But according to a narrative by the archivists of proponent Margaret Higgins Sanger’s official pap… ...

THE BIRTH OF THE PILL: HOW FOUR CRUSADERS REINVENTED SEX AND LAUNCHED A REVOLUTION By Jonathan Eig Published by W.W. Norton & Company, $27.95. At first glance, The Birth of the Pill may seem an ...

Abiography has just been published of Gregory Pincus, cofounder of the Worcester Foundation at Clark University in 1943 (which relocated to Shrewsbury in 1947). Pincus co-discovered, with M.C ...

May marks the 50th anniversary of the world's first oral contraceptive, known simply as "the pill." ...