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Dec 2, 2021 34 min

The truth about the pill

from Thick & Thin Hosted by Katy Bellotte

Let's all take a moment to thank Margaret Sanger and all those who advocated for women's reproductive rights. In this episode of Thick & Thin, we travel back to the 1900s' to learn the history of a popular birth control method, otherwise known as — the pill. // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // Sources: https://www.healthline.com/health/birth-control/history-of-birth-control#modern-methods https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/chastity-belt.htm https://www.allure.com/story/history-of-birth-control https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2018/05/16/contraception-evolving-the-options/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-katharine-dexter-mccormick-1875-1967/ https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/margaret-sanger https://www.pandiahealth.com/resources/birth-control-throughout-history/ https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/history-oral-contraception/2000-06

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