Years before she founded Planned Parenthood, pioneering feminist Margaret Sanger dreamed of a “magic pill” that would put women in charge of their own fertility. As a visiting nurse in New York City’s ...

Imagine it’s the summer of ’95 and you’re going about your morning, minding your own business, thinking it’s going to be a day like any other—and you turn on the radio and “You Oughta Know” comes on.

I was born in 1980, a couple of decades after the contraceptive pill gave women a longed-for control over their own sex lives and fertility. By the mid-Nineties, however, fears about HIV and other ...

Seated at a holiday service at a synagogue about a decade ago, author Jonathan Eig heard his rabbi describe the birth control pill as the most important invention of the 20th century. His reaction?