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Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.678.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When the birth control pill hit the market in 1960 it landed like a social bomb. Almost overnight, women gained the ability to separate sex from pregnancy and everything from feminism to patients’ rights centered on it. Find out all about its history in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

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she co-wrote with her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. But it's also such a gift to be able to sit

0:44.9

here and say, as an adult woman, I had such a good mother. Yes. That is a gift.

0:50.3

I know. You know, she certainly was not like a, I don't know what a perfect mother is.

0:54.6

Well, she wasn't a traditional mother. She wasn't a traditional mother. I am so grateful to have had

0:59.4

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1:04.5

wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. Here's Chuck this week on a Saturday with a pretty relevant topic these days. Who knew that it would be relevant again? And this is from June 19, 2018. How the pill changed the world. I think you know what pill we're talking about.

1:26.2

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

1:35.9

Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

1:38.0

I'm Josh Clark.

1:39.2

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's the ghost of Jerry Rowan.

1:45.4

The empty chair.

1:47.8

Thanks again to Ramsey.

1:49.9

Yeah, thanks, Ramsey.

1:51.0

How do I feel about this?

1:51.7

I feel great.

1:52.7

The pill is, it has everything.

1:56.2

This might be, I just love this episode already.

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