America And The Pill: A History Of Promise, Peril, And Liberation - Plot & Excerpts
In meetings and conferences across the globe, ex- perts met to address the “population bomb.” At one such meeting, in the summer of 1965, hundreds of medical experts gathered in Bombay (now Mumbai) to discuss the problem of overpopulation. The site of the conference was not accidental. India, one of the most densely populated and impoverished na- tions in the world, was a telling backdrop, a living showcase of the need for population control. Participants included doctorsfrom all over the world, and Indian physicians comprised the largest group in attendance. Between the Western male doc- tors wearing suits and the sari-clad female physicians from India, where reproductive medicine was the domain of women, the contrast could not have been more striking.The most dramatic moment in the conference came when an American doctor made the claim that oral contraceptives would solve India’s overpopulation troubles. With a theatrical flourish, he unfurled a roll of birth control pills like a streamer and tossed it into the packed auditorium.
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