Women were prevented from taking the pill in the 1950's - Amnesty International

 

Saw this video online today and for my own sanity felt compelled to point out that women were not "prevented from taking contraception" in the 1950s.  The contraceptive pill wasn't invented until 1960.  A large number of women on Facebook told me I had missed the point of the video.  But I'm not commenting on that.  I'm just making an observation that this video contains an obvious factual error in the hope that someone will correct it.  Among the ludicrous arguments why the video is right and I am wrong that were advanced were that I was focusing on just one still when in fact the narrator literally says the words "women ...we'ren't allowed to take contraception".  I then had to listen to a load of people telling me contraception wasn't available to women in the 1950s when condomns (a spin-off of Goodyear's vulcanisation process) had been massively promoted by multiple governments during two world wars in an attempt to keep a lid on STDs.  Someone even told me that "other forms of contraception were available but were hard to get" as if there was a magic way of not getting up the duff only available to the wealthy in the '50s.  There wasn't.  Well, yes there were other methods than the condom but they all had one thing in common ...they were all variations on the barrier method which is unreliable and takes a bit of the spontenaity out of sex.  Well, I suppose there was the Knaus–Ogino rhythm method but if that worked I wouldn't be writing this, would I?  It isn't that I don't have any sympathy with the general points being made but this video's opening statement is so stupid it's equivalent to saying before 1938 people weren't allowed to split the atom...