American Experience | The Pill | Timeline.
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1904 |
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1906 |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is established to protect consumers from fraudulent medical products and quackery. |
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1912 |
Margaret Sanger, now a nurse on New York's Lower East Side, dreams about finding a "magic pill" as easy to take as an aspirin that could be used for contraceptive purposes. |
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1914 |
August: Margaret Sanger coins the term "birth control" and dares to use the phrase in the June 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel. For this crime and others, Sanger is indicted for nine violations of the Comstock Law. Rather than face the charges, she flees the country to continue her work in England. |
McCormick's husband is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Fearing his disease is hereditary, McCormick vows never to have children and develops a staunch belief in the value of
March: In her radical journal The Woman Rebel, Margaret Sanger instructs women on times when it would be wise for women to avoid pregnancy, such as in the case of illness or poverty. She does not give any instructions regarding specific methods for contraception, but the 
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