"It gave us the freedom to plan our lives." This is the story of the birth control pill.
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00:00I naturally want to see women take all the suffering of childbearing and of pregnancies.
00:19Don't take away our birth control! Don't take away our birth control!
00:23He has revolutionized the ability of women to work.
00:53I came from a large family. My mother died young, 11 children. It made an impression on me as a child.
01:23I came from a large family. My mother died young, 11 children. It made an impression on me as a child.
01:33I came from a large family. My mother died young, 11 children. It made an impression on me as a child.
01:57Pharmaceutical companies were terrified of the pill. It was really Catherine McCormick's money that got the ball rolling.
02:27The pill has brought us independence, the freedom to plan our lives, the freedom to advance our workplace and education,
02:56our chance to advance ourselves socially. It gave us the freedom to plan our lives.
03:26The pill, as it was originally introduced, while very effective, had relatively high doses of both estrogen and progesterone.
03:41The pill we have today dramatically reduces the amount of those two hormones, thus increasing the safety of the pill.
03:57We know, for example, that several of the circulating hormones are not within the normal range in women using oral contraceptives.
04:07The only real way to protect oneself, to live a life, is to remain chaste, to remain abstinent from sexual activity until you are married.
05:02President Nixon signed Title X family planning funding into law. It was a Republican value for lesser government intrusion in our lives and good fiscal conservatism.
05:32When it comes to women, preventive care should include coverage of contraceptive services such as birth control.
05:56Nearly 99% of all women have relied on contraception at some point in their lives. 99%. And yet more than half of all women between the ages of 18 and 34 have struggled to afford it.
06:11The Obamacare HHS mandate persecutes Christians and Catholics, forces them to violate their consciences, and that's something that you'd expect in a communist country, not in the United States of America.
06:41Today's decision jeopardizes the health of women who are employed by these companies.
06:47We will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore.
07:11What would you say maybe to the women out there or to the families out there who now have to pay more out of their pocket to get contraception coverage that they choose and that they desire?
07:27This is a president who supports the First Amendment, supports the freedom of religion. I don't understand why that should be an issue.
07:35I can't believe we're still fighting for this right so many years after birth control came about.