1957

FDA approves Syntex-Parke-Davis’s Norlutin and Searle’s Enovid (the Pill), but only for treatment of menstrual disorders; in 1960, Searle applied and received approval to market Enovid as a contraceptive “The Pill” was formally approved on May 11, 1960 (Asbell, 159, 164-67). By end of 1961, estimated 408,000 American women were taking the Pill; it increased to 1,187,000 in 1962 and 2.3 million in 1963 (168).