John Rock (24 March 1890 - 4 December 1984) was one of the inventors of the birth control pill. He had five children and nineteen grandchildren, and regularly attended Catholic mass.
"In the years immediately after the Pill was approved by the F.D.A., in 1960, Rock was everywhere. He appeared in interviews and documentaries on CBS and NBC, in Time Magazine, Newsweek, Life Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. He toured the country tirelessly. ...
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John Rock (24 March 1890 - 4 December 1984) was one of the inventors of the birth control pill. He had five children and nineteen grandchildren, and regularly attended Catholic mass.
"In the years immediately after the Pill was approved by the F.D.A., in 1960, Rock was everywhere. He appeared in interviews and documentaries on CBS and NBC, in Time Magazine, Newsweek, Life Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. He toured the country tirelessly. He wrote a widely discussed book, The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle Over Birth Control, which was translated into French, German, and Dutch."(Gladwell, 2000)
At Harvard Medical School, he taught obstetrics and gynecology for more than three decades. In the nineteen-thirties, at the Free Hospital for Women in Brookline, Massachusetts, he had started the country's first clinic for educating Catholic couples in calendar-based methods of birth control. He was a pioneer in in-vitro fertilization and the freezing of...
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