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Birth control pill approved in the U.S.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the birth control pill after first testing it on women in Puerto Rico. Within five years, 40% of young married women will be on the pill. The legalization of the pill is controversial, while also creating some unexpected partnerships, particularly between conservative Catholics and some Black organizers.

The Catholic resistance sees the pill as an attack on the divinity of conception, and the Black resistance movement sees the pill as promoting Black genocide, which is a response to the generations of white state and personal violence directed at Black bodies.