First Birth Control Pill Research Paper

In 1873 the U.S. congress passed the comstock law which made all forms of contraceptives illegal. This led to products like Lysol disinfectant being marketed as feminine hygiene products which was not illegal but killed some and severely burned many, but with these products the contraceptive market was still open. Finally, in 1914 an activist named Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. A year later she was arrested in Brooklyn and sentenced to 30 days in jail for maintaining a public nuisance. She was arrested multiple times after re opening her clinic and finally during her case in 1938, a judge lifted the federal ban on birth control. In the 1950’s Margaret finds Gregory Pincus and they began to work on a birth control pill together. Margaret raised one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to to research and create the first birth control …show more content…
Birth control also helped the marriage market because women were allowed to have multiple partners before getting married because they weren’t having children thanks to the birth control. This new equipment had a tremendous impact on the economy because more women were working in the labor force and were getting jobs that usually men did like medicine and law. These new rules helped narrow the earnings gap between men and women and that birth control accounted for thirty percent that made up the wage gap between men and women from 1990 to 2000. Women with easy access to birth control now have forty percent higher earnings than those who don’t. Birth control can lead to a demographic dividend because of the smaller sizes of families and higher wages. Also for every dollar that is invested in family planning causes significant savings in things such as education, immunization and