God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
3/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Amidst the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first oral contraceptive in 1960, an ongoing—if surprising—conversation emerged within the Catholic Church about the morality of birth control. Granted, the institutional Church did not endorse contraception; and American Catholic leadership

