Adverse Side Effects of the Pill

The birth control pill, created in the 1950s by the insane and diabolical American endocrinologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, and approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for millions of American women in 1960, the birth control pill was the result of a medical accident, believe it or not. Pincus hooked up with Boston gynecologist John Rock, a Roman Catholic (whose faith teaches against contraceptive) who had been researching infertility, and the two began experimenting with chemical drugs to produce an oral contraceptive for women. In the midst of their experiments, a batch of synthetic progesterone was inadvertently contaminated with the pharmaceutical drug mestranol, an estrogenlike substance. The scientist discovered that the two hormones worked in tandem to block conception.

Pincus first became notorious in the 1930s, when he achieved in vitro fertilization of rabbit eggs. He later hooked up with Hudson Hoagland, also an endocrinologist, and they founded their own research facility, the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, which was financed by private and government grants, and by the drug industry. In 1951, aided by biologist Min Cheuh Chang, Pincus started testing the contraceptive value of the hormone progesterone, which was derived from the root of the Wild Yam.

The Worcester experiments attracted the attention of Margaret Sanger, America