An american biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus was the first scientist to experiment with in vitro fertilization and even achieve some level of success. But his legacy turned out to be the exact opposite. In collaboration with femisists Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick and a gynecologist John Rock he invented and brought to market the first oral contraceptive pill. How did such a U-turn happen?

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Additional materials: 

 

Podcast «Hormonal»: https://helloclue.com/podcast/hormonal-podcast-clue/happy-birthday-birth-control

 

Podcast «99% invisible»: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/repackaging-the-pill/

 

 

This episode came about thanks to:

Author - Elena Chesnokova

Editors - Anastasia Yakubovskaya, Andrey Borzenko

Producers - Kirill Sychev, Anastasiа Sobova, Ksenia Krasilnikova and Lika Kremer

Sound engineer - Yuri Shustitsky

Jingle author - Kira Weinstein

Special thanks to Anna Filippova and Sergey Krasotin for their help.