The four people who created this revolution were: Margaret Sanger, who believed that women could not enjoy sex or freedom until they could control when and whether they got pregnant scientist Gregory Pincus, who was fired from Harvard for experimenting with in-vitro fertilization and bragging about it to the mainstream press John Rock, who was a Catholic OB-GYN and worked with Pincus to conduct tests of the pill on women and Katharine McCormick, who funded much of the research. How?Įig tells the history in his new book The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Birth of the Pill Subtitle How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution Author Jonathan Eig
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