The first historical references about contraception date back to ancient Egypt, where women used a mixture of dates, acacia and honey to not get pregnant. Since then, and maybe even before, other civilizations have left samples of his' adventures contraceptive. " Greeks, Romans, condoms, spermicides ...
Avoiding pregnancy is an old goal, however, has been hampered by more factors than the purely scientific and inventive. The idea of contraception pill or birth control by artificial methods soon clashed with the religious doctrines.
That was the scenario in the late 50s were found responsible for the search of the pill. In the U.S., a country that gave birth to this drug, in force since 1873 Comstock Laws, which prohibited the sale and use of contraceptives. And, despite the strong movement against him, which gradually led to their repeal, some social sectors, and continue still today-to support the restriction of the use of these products.
To try to overcome the opposition of the Catholic Church approves only natural methods, and to gain the confidence of women, wary at the thought of leaving your period, the inventors of the pill devised a 'week off' . In these days when you do not take contraception pills or a placebo was ingested, there is a slight fall hormone that causes bleeding that mimics menstruation, although it is totally unnecessary.
The contraception pill
This was the format that finally got approval from the American agency Drug Administration (FDA) and was claimed by thousands of women in U.S. pharmacies as of August 18, 1960. First, only married women and then for anyone who did not want to become pregnant, spreading to the West. In Spain came later, in 1978, when it amended the Penal Code to legalize its use.
"From the beginning, the pill had no complications and was highly effective. It is the pioneer of modern contraception," he told DPA the reproductive health expert Population Fund (UNFPA), Nuriye Ortayli.
In this half century, millions of women have taken the contraception pill, although in many countries is the method used, only about 100 million women worldwide currently consume daily, according to UNFPA figures collected by this agency. This represents only 9% of the female population of reproductive age, reaching 1,000 million.
Concern about side effects and lack of access to thousands of women to family planning has reduced the popularity of the pill. Anyway, this drug-the best scientific advances of the twentieth century as' The Economist', has enabled women who so wish to control when to have children and can thus live their sexuality more freely.
This was the format that finally got approval from the American agency Drug Administration (FDA) and was claimed by thousands of women in U.S. pharmacies as of August 18, 1960. First, only married women and then for anyone who did not want to become pregnant, spreading to the West. In Spain came later, in 1978, when it amended the Penal Code to legalize its use.
In this half century, millions of women have taken the contraception pill, although in many countries is the method used, only about 100 million women worldwide currently consume daily, according to UNFPA figures collected by this agency. This represents only 9% of the female population of reproductive age, reaching 1,000 million.
Concern about side effects and lack of access to thousands of women to family planning has reduced the popularity of the pill. Anyway, this drug-the best scientific advances of the twentieth century as' The Economist', has enabled women who so wish to control when to have children and can thus live their sexuality more freely.
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