America and The Pill

The cultural revolution of the 50s and 60s made the development of the morning-after pill an important moment in the women’s rights movement. “…the pill has been a tremendous boon for women, transforming sex and reproduction so thoroughly that it’s hard for many to imagine what life was like before it. In the 1960s and 1970s, Black Power leaders denounced the pill as a tool of black genocide — rhetoric often echoed by today’s anti-abortion movement. But female civil-rights activists saw things very differently. “