The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill–Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
Development of “the pill,” as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and funded by heiress Katherine McCormick. Sanger, who opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States in 1916, hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative to contraceptives that were in use at the time.
In the early 1950s, Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School, began work on a birth-control pill. Clinical tests of the pill, which used synthetic progesterone and estrogen to repress ovulation in women, were initiated in 1954. On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved the pill, granting greater reproductive freedom to American women.
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The Pill is part of how we’re ruined.
It warps all the incentives for pair-bonding and family formation by promising adolescents and young adults that they can stretch what was supposed to be a year or two of enjoying the peak bloom of a nubile young woman in the period prior to the hectic stage of life called “raising kids” into a decade or more of “fun and frolic” without the “burden” of children.
It causes people to become permanent adolescents.
Nature designs us to find a partner early, indulge in the ecstasy of physical intimacy for a few months or a year, and then along come the kiddies. Life is meant to be lived in STAGES. One of the many evils of today is the pervasive myth that biology can be denied, and the age at which those STAGES are lived can be manipulated.
It can’t. Women have a window of fertility, and no amount of egg-donor celebrity pregnancies into their 40’s will alter that. And any man who thinks he wants to become a dad in his 40’s or 50’s grossly underestimates the energy demands of kids and the energy loss he’ll experience as he, too, ages.
Physical intimacy is a gift that allows the deepening of emotional intimacy (PI>>>EI), helping to glue a couple together so they can best provide a home in which to raise functional children into functional adults.
The Pill encourages women to indulge in Physical Intimacy with men with whom they have no desire to bear children. It radically altered the balance of behavior in favor of “SEX IS FUN” casualness, which has the paradoxical effect of habituating people to physical intimacy WITHOUT any emotional intimacy. Once habituated to this, when these people try to then get married and have kids, their partnerships are left without the PI>>>EI, not to mention that they have memories polluted with a variety of sexual experiences. Their spouses age, but their memories are fixed in time. Their spouses may be wonderful, but does the spouse “check each and every box” as “the best” in every aspect of their memory bank of sexual experience? Probably not. I’ve seen more than one marriage detonate after the husband said to me, “well, she’s not the girl with whom I had my most passionate sexual experience.” Talk about poisonous memories.
From my view (long-time married to one person, expect to die of old age still married) it is self-evident that the promise of PLEASURE is extremely context dependent, and that choosing PLEASURE in the wrong context is a prescription for living an UNHAPPY LIFE. The Pill lowered the barrier to choosing pleasure in the wrong context.
PS: Hormonal contraception subtly changes women’s behavior (in negative ways.) It also tends to make them fatter.
PPS: Can we imagine the consequences of this tranny-bullshit, where men take estrogens and women take testosterone, when we know already that even amplifying the natural amount of each (women taking female hormones or men taking male hormones) causes all kinds of health problems, not to mention blood clots? And the tranny-kook-enablers advocate giving CHILDREN hormones or hormone-blockers? Put ’em all against a wall and shoot ’em (the enablers, that is.)
Now that’s a healthy dose of Logos. Dr. Michael E. Jones couldn’t have said it better.
Looking on the bright side, think of all the knee-grow chillens that didn’t happen.
I think the pill was a bad invention, allowing women to have sex without the fear of pregnancy (though not 100 percent effective), and loosening morals, which has worsened over time. You would think, since the pill is available, the amount of abortions would be extremely low, but I guess women are now using abortion as their contraceptive.