Some of the most important events can slip past us because we don't know how important they are until much later. You know about Sputnik, Elvis, and Rosa Parks, but did you know that The Pill was developed in the '50s?
Read about four other events that also turned out to be very newsworthy ...much later. Link
You probably think that – along with Twister and concept albums – the oral contraceptive pill was one of the great inventions of the swinging sixties. In fact, it was a product of the more famously staid and conservative fifties. Developed by a team of biologists led by Gregory Pincus, it was first tested in Puerto Rico April 1956. The Food and Drug Administration did not approve the marketing of the pill until 1960, just in time for it to be a symbol of sixties freedom.
Read about four other events that also turned out to be very newsworthy ...much later. Link
Parents can bark at their children all they want, but it's up to the individual to listen to fact and reason.
Sooo, the United Fruit coup theory is a ''may have been'' and somehow merits being believed over the ''Soviet bloc'' reason, huh?
Why? If it's mere speculation, it doesn't deserve to be presented as more factual, surely.
As for the pill eliminating unwanted pregnancies... The pill IS widely available to girls and women as are condoms to boys and men. What is not readily available is parents who show their children and teach their children to be responsible people.