What: WNYC had Elaine Tyler May, a professor from the University of Minnesota and author of a book on the birth control pill, on to talk through the past hundred years of birth control history in America, from Margaret Sanger battling then postal inspector Anthony Comstock to current threats to access today.

Key line: “The FDA approved the oral contraceptive in 1960, and almost immediately, women, millions of women, were using the birth control pill. It took about two to three years before Catholic women were using the pill to the same degree as non-Catholic women, because [some state level bans] against any kind of contraceptive method was still in effect in that time frame, but the eagerness to take advantage of an opportunity to control reproduction was across the board with women from all backgrounds.”

Source: WNYC