Margaret Sanger was the first one to test hormones on rabbits to prevent ovulation. She raised $150,000 in 1950 and was a lifelong advocate of women's rights. This was the beginning of the discovery.
Frank Colton developed the first oral contraceptive. It was named Envoid. He went into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Carl Djerassi was the inventor of the modern pill, what we take today to prevent preganancy. He also went into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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SOME WEIRD FACTS OF HISTORY IN BIRTH CONTROL
-Did you know the pills that we take today actually work on chimpanzees??
-The oldest known condoms, around 1640, were made of fish intestines!! Yuck!
-The Egyptians around 1850 BC used crocodile dung as a contraceptive. And croc dung is pure alkaline!! What a risk!
-Charles Goodyear, yes as in Goodyear tires, patentted the first rubber condom.
-During WW1, condoms in the US finally became legal. And troops ignored the advice to abstain from sex.
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