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The Pill – that most revolutionary of inventions – turns 50

What’s small and round and one of the history’s most revolutionary inventions? The birth control pill has been both praised as the paramount moment in the feminist movement and assailed as a free pass that has actually hurt women’s rights. Did the pill allow women to put off pregnancy, get further in their careers and get married on their own terms or did it help to promote promiscuity, failed marriages and STD’s? The birth control pill turns 50 years old this month, and feminist founder Gloria Steinem assesses its impact. We’d like to know what The Pill means to you.

Guests:

Gloria Steinem, founding editor of Ms. Magazine. She continues to speak out against such global injustices as female genital cutting, sex trafficking, honor killings and U.S. restrictions on international family planning.

Esha Momeni, CSUN graduate student who was arrested in Tehran in October of 2008 for taping interviews with members of the Campaign for Equality.