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November 14, 2024 37 mins
The birth control pill revolutionized women’s independence in the US and everywhere, but came at the cost of Puerto Rican women who were experimented on without consent in the birth control trials of the 1950’s, overseen by Gregory Pincus and John Rock.  

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Music Credit: Hustlin (Instrumental) by Neffex

Sources

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/the-bitter-pill/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/ 
https://medium.com/the-lily/how-puerto-rican-women-were-used-to-test-the-birth-control-pill-7453a3b6ab73 
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/gregory-pincus-1903-1967/ 
https://womanisrational.uchicago.edu/2022/09/21/margaret-sanger-the-duality-of-a-ambitious-feminist-and-racist-eugenicist/ 
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-dr-john-rock-1890-1984/
https://remezcla.com/culture/birth-control-testing-puerto-rico/ 
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/24/oral-contraceptives-history-puerto-rico-testing-massachusetts-ethics 
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/10/10029088/puerto-rico-sterilization-abortion-reproductive-rights-history

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