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Back to EpisodesKatharine McCormick - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - Part 2-Birth of the Birth Control Pill
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Katharine McCormick did a lot to help women in the 1800s. She smuggled diaphragms from Europe to America by sewing them into the linings of high fashion women's apparel so that American women could have a contraceptive.
She fought tirelessly for women to have contraceptives to control their number of births.
She eventually funded a biologist's quest for a birth control pill which eventually changed the lives of tens of millions of women...
...but she did it at a price of Puerto Rican women.
Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Katharine McCormick's quest to provide women with the birth control pill...but at the cost of other women.
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