Dr. Rose Quoted in Oregonian for Pill's 50th
excerpted from The Oregonian, May 8, 2010:
The pill redefined modern society by conferring the power to reliably control the roulette wheel of pregnancy. The pill bought a woman time, to finish an education, to go to work, to hike the Cascades. The pill made motherhood a choice, not a destiny — a concept that many young women today find hard to grasp.
“The biggest thing is that they cannot imagine a world in which they have virtually no control over their reproductive decisions,” said Melody Rose, a political scientist who is director of the Center for Women, Politics and Policy at Portland State University. “There’s a full generation of Americans who have little or no connection to that time in our history.
