HCAU Unfiltered

S3 E4: The Racialized History of the Birth Control pill

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In today's episode, Wyatt has a chat with guest Kiran Waqar about the racialized history of the birth control pill and its controversial creator, Margret Sanger. They cover the general history of the pill, Sanger's involvement with the eugenics movement, the Puerto Rican pill trials, the use of Black and Brown women as "guinea pigs" for reproductive care developments, contemporary racial issues in reproductive healthcare access as a whole and the people/organizations who are fighting to change it. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

Trigger warning: this episode discusses race, eugenics, and racialization.

Sources: 

  • https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/1514/3518/7100/Pill_History_FactSheet.pdf
  • https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835625/
  • https://hearttogrow.org/
  • https://advocatesforyouth.org/
  • https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are
  • https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml
  • http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,988152,00.html
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html
  • https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/37/fd/37fdc7b6-de5f-4d22-8c05-9568268e92d8/sanger_opposition_claims_fact_sheet_2016.pdf
  • https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/8013/9611/6937/Opposition_Claims_About_Margaret_Sanger.pdf
  • https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444/
  • https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2000/03/forum-black-women-and-pill
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