What Was the Significance of the Birth-Control Pill in the 1960s

question 37

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the birth-control pill in the 1960s?

• A) The pill highlighted how the feminist movement was entirely separate from and only came after the so-called sexual revolution.
• B) Although access to the pill was a goal of the feminist movement, it would not be available for several more decades.
• C) The pill resulted in the dramatic decrease of sexually transmitted diseases among both men and women in the 1960s.
• D) The availability of the pill played little role in American life because few college women of the period were sexually active.
• E) Widespread access to the pill led to more open discussion of birth control, reproduction, and sexuality in general.