Since 2006, when the "morning-after pill" Plan B was first sold
over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared,
becoming an $80 million industry in the United States and
throughout the Western world. But emergency contraception is
nothing new. It has a long and often contentious history as the
subject of clashes not only between medical researchers and
religious groups, but also between different factions of feminist
health advocates. The Morning After tells the story of emergency
contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and,
more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it.
Side-stepping simplistic readings of these women as either radical
feminist trailblazers or guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical
industry, medical historian Heather Munro Prescott offers a
portrait of how ordinary women participated in the development and
popularization of emergency contraception, bringing a
groundbreaking technology into the mainstream with the potential to
alter radically reproductive health practices.
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