"Eig's timing is fortunate; Americans are currently fighting new variations on the same battle, one that has never quite receded but, for political and legal reasons, is under a brighter spotlight than ever. It was one thing to invent the pill and get it approved. It has been quite another for women to have actual access to the contraception that’s right for them, what with this country's byzantine system of health care delivery and our even more contorted sexual politics."
In The New York Times, Irin Carmon reviews Jonathan Eig's The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
Rebecca Leber interviews Eig in The New Republic.
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