The People Behind The Pill
June, 1998
Margaret Sanger, the grande dame of birth control, was 71 in 1950 when she sought out an old benefactor, Katharine McCormick, 75, a true believer who had helped smuggle diaphragms into the U.S. during the Twenties. What Sanger wanted was a perfect contraceptive, something as simple as aspirin, that women could take to prevent unwanted pregnancies.Sanger and McCormick went shopping for a scientist. Sanger contacted Gregory Pincus at the Worcester Foundation in Massachusetts. Pincus had experiment...
