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Compound found in Mexican wild yams spurs research for creating a contraceptive pill.

Date: 1948

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Planned Parenthood provides funding and support for research to create "the pill." Much of the components for the contraceptive pill are derived from Mexican wild yams.

Information about these yams was held by Indigenous knowledge keepers, and their location was often kept a secret.