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The Pill
7:30 PM, FEB 12
By Tom Horan
Directed by Courtney Sale
With UMASS Lowell
We may all know of the birth control pill, but do we know what was risked to create it?
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In the early 1950s, Margaret Sanger is at the end of her career as an activist for women’s rights. Yet throughout it all, she had never been able to achieve her secret hope of creating a “magic tablet” that would be cheap, easy, and allow a woman to turn off and on her ability to have a child. Sanger makes one last effort to achieve her dream. She enlists Katherine McCormick, a former suffragist and wealthy widow to finance the project, forms a tentative alliance with Goodwin Pincus – a disgraced hormone scientist, and John Rock, a Roman Catholic gynecologist, whose reluctant participation lent the project a sheen of acceptability. Together these four attempt to navigate a problem that seems scientifically impractical and financially unfeasible.
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