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In 1953, Katharine Dexter McCormick, heir to the McCormick family fortune, reconnected with her longtime friend Margaret Sanger. McCormick and Sanger met during their work in the women’s rights movement. Sanger took McCormick on a tour of the Worcester (Wore-ster) Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts where scientists were developing an oral contraceptive based on synthetic progesterone. Seeing that the researchers were close to a breakthrough, McCormick agreed to donate funds towards the work.

The development of an oral contraceptive would change the world forever. Sadly, these changes came at the expense of hundreds of impoverished women.