Development of the Pill was partly facilitated by Katherine McCormic, friend of Margaret Sanger, who invested over three million dollars for scientific research towards the development of oral contraception (Chesler, 432). The pills main funders consisted of mostly pharmaceutical companies and well known institutions for population control (Petchesky, 171). In the year of 1951, progestin was fist synthesized in an oral form by Carl Djerassi amongst other chemists from the University of Mexico (Chesler, 432). John Rock, a Catholic gynecologist who was all for birth control, took part in the further development of the Pill and the experimenting with the drug on Boston patients (McLaren, 240). In the year of 1956 there were large clinical trials
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This oral contraceptive was developed on the exploitation of colored women; these women were used as ‘lab rats’. They were also used as the image that would be shown to society of birth control to try and stop the further reproduction of black and brown people in the United Sates along with the rest of the world. Margaret Sanger’s contribution to the journal of the American Birth Control League makes the original purpose of birth control clear. Much of the birth control movement was aimed at, as Sanger wrote in the American Birth Control League journal, having “more children from the fit, less from the unfit” (Davis, …show more content…
United States Agency for International Development, the agency which was supposed to be responsible for the population programs executed over in Puerto Rico, increased its spending on birth control portion by one hundred million dollars while also decreasing spending on health care by that exact amount (La Operacion). Doctor Helen Rodrigues argues in La Operacion that birth control is a right where women are provided with the information in order to be able to make a choice and that population control on the other hand is a program in where specific women are targeted in order to have no children or very few children. In the year of 1898 soldiers of the United States had landed in Puerto Rico and over 30 years later about half of the land was already owned by corporations (La Operacion). By 1937 Puerto Rico was at a 37% unemployment rate and the people who had no home and had no jobs were seen as over population by North America (La Operacion). In the year 1937 was the same year when sterilization was made legal. 35% of the women who were at the age of having kids were being sterilized (La Operacion). Both procedures of sterilization and birth control were being used by the United States in an attempt to try and limit Puerto Rico’s population to just about 33 percent of
This oral contraceptive was developed on the exploitation of colored women; these women were used as ‘lab rats’. They were also used as the image that would be shown to society of birth control to try and stop the further reproduction of black and brown people in the United Sates along with the rest of the world. Margaret Sanger’s contribution to the journal of the American Birth Control League makes the original purpose of birth control clear. Much of the birth control movement was aimed at, as Sanger wrote in the American Birth Control League journal, having “more children from the fit, less from the unfit” (Davis, …show more content…
United States Agency for International Development, the agency which was supposed to be responsible for the population programs executed over in Puerto Rico, increased its spending on birth control portion by one hundred million dollars while also decreasing spending on health care by that exact amount (La Operacion). Doctor Helen Rodrigues argues in La Operacion that birth control is a right where women are provided with the information in order to be able to make a choice and that population control on the other hand is a program in where specific women are targeted in order to have no children or very few children. In the year of 1898 soldiers of the United States had landed in Puerto Rico and over 30 years later about half of the land was already owned by corporations (La Operacion). By 1937 Puerto Rico was at a 37% unemployment rate and the people who had no home and had no jobs were seen as over population by North America (La Operacion). In the year 1937 was the same year when sterilization was made legal. 35% of the women who were at the age of having kids were being sterilized (La Operacion). Both procedures of sterilization and birth control were being used by the United States in an attempt to try and limit Puerto Rico’s population to just about 33 percent of