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A 100% effective birth control method.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved U.S. Enovid 10 mg (9.85 mg norethynodrel and 150 mcg mestranol) for menstrual disorders, based on data for use by more than 600 women. Numerous additional contraceptive trials showed Enovid was highly effective at doses of 10, 5, and 2.5 mg. -
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Birth Control
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A FDA announcement
The FDA announced it would approve the use of Enovid 10 mg for contraception -
Say Hi! to "The Pill"
Is the time in which 'Enovid 10 mg had been in general use for three years during which time, which by conservative estimates, at least half a million women had used.22 35 42 Although the FDA had already approved for use as a contraceptive, Enovid Searle never marketed as a contraceptive 10 mg -
The doctors and "The Pill"
The FDA approved Enovid 5 mg for use as a contraceptive. In July 1961, Searle finally began marketing Enovid 5 mg (5 mg norethynodrel and 75 mcg mestranol) to physicians as a contraceptive -
Griswold v. Connecticut
Was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy". It was decided June 7, 1965 -
Eisenstadt v. Baird
Is an important United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially nonprocreative sexual intercourse (though not the right of unmarried people to engage in any type of sexual intercourse). -
T-Shaped
A T-shaped IUD is approved by the FDA, and other designs follow. These devices are inserted by doctors and provide birth control for up to 10 years. They fall out of favor after one - the Dalkon Shield - is found to cause pelvic inflammatory disease in some women -
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A new products
Four new birth control products are approved by the FDA - the first in a decade. Ortho Evra, a birth control "patch," slowly releases hormones through the skin, freeing women from a daily pill. NuvaRing, a small, flexible ring as big as a silver dollar, is inserted into the vagina and releases hormones for three weeks. Lunelle is a monthly hormone injection. Mirena is an IUD effective for 5 years; it also causes lighter periods for most women -
A pill every day
The first continuous birth control pill, which women take every day to suppress their periods and provide birth control, was approved in September. Seasonale schedules four menstrual periods a year. Researchers are working on other pills that would schedule one menstrual period a year.