![]() ![]() And even if it did work, how would one test such a thing? Who would dare manufacture it? Who would prescribe it? Thirty states and the federal government still had anti-birth control laws on the books. ![]() Such a pill would never work, other scientists had told Sanger. When Pincus met the feminist crusader Margaret Sanger in 1950 and she implored him to go to work on the development of a birth-control pill, he knew the project carried enormous risk. He’d been unceremoniously dumped by Harvard and forced to start his own laboratory in a converted garage. His whole career had been a recovery process, one attempt after another to start over. For years the biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus had been searching for a project that might establish his greatness, only to watch ideas come and go like love affairs, beginning with promise and ending in hurt feelings. ![]()
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