Others include anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, birth control activist Margaret Sanger and Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Drugs like birth control pills contain a version of this chemical.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

In May 1960,the U.S.Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first birth control pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12