In 1951, Dr. Gregory Pincus was on the verge of a breakthrough. He had successfully halted ovulation in rabbits and mice; now the project was finally ready for human trials. Only problem was, they had ...

In 1953, Sanger introduced her to Gregory Goodwin Pincus and Min-Chueh Chang, researchers at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts, who were trying to develop a safe ...

Deboki: Gregory Pincus was a biologist and world-renowned, although somewhat controversial, expert in mammalian reproduction. Sam: Sanger approached 47-year-old Pincus and explained that women were in ...

The Development of the Pill In 1948, Planned Parenthood awarded a small grant to biologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock, and M.C. Chang to conduct research for a birth control pill. Katharine Dexter ...

Margaret Sanger: Activist Nurse Who Introduced The Term 'Birth Control' Margaret Sanger, born in 1879 amid strict Comstock laws, devoted her life to women's reproductive rights, pioneering birth ...

Margaret Sanger spearheaded years of education, research, and funding that went into developing oral contraceptives - what’s commonly known as the birth control pill.

Dr. Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts, one of the men most responsible for the pill’s development, says that it does not directly effect libido.

To understand the conservative fervor around abortion, contraception, and LGBTQ rights, we have to understand the impact these relatively new rights have on the labor market.

Only since Charles Goodyear’s vulcanization of rubber (in 1839), which revolutionized barrier contraceptives, and, more recently, the development of hormonal birth control by Margaret Sanger and ...

In the 1950s, Sanger and heiress Katharine McCormick provided financial backing for a research team led by endocrinologist Gregory Pincus – one of the handful of doctors willing to stray into ...