This month marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government's approval of the birth control pill. Here are some of the ways the pill has helped change women's lives:
- Proved much safer than earlier birth control methods, most notably the cordite-ignited vaginal gun
- Successfully helped to replace the term "spinster" with the term "career-oriented"
- Women are now able to learn math
- A woman can now freely enjoy other races in her extramarital affairs without the damn baby's skin color giving it away
- For baby-boomer women, the pill heralds the start of all '60s montages
- Changed your mother's life, as she likes to say, yet you exist, and she doesn't appear all that thrilled with her life choices anyhow
- Kept Stephanie Lyall of Lawrence, KS from realizing just how awful a mother she would have been
- Skin really cleared up; plus, no kids