<P> The National Birth Control Association was founded in Britain in 1931, and became the Family Planning Association eight years later . The Association amalgamated several British birth control - focused groups into' a central organisation' for administering and overseeing birth control in Britain . The group incorporated the Birth Control Investigation Committee, a collective of physicians and scientists that was founded to investigate scientific and medical aspects of contraception with' neutrality and impartiality' . Subsequently, the Association effected a series of' pure' and' applied' product and safety standards that manufacturers must meet to ensure their contraceptives could be prescribed as part of the Association's standard two - part - technique combining' a rubber appliance to protect the mouth of the womb' with a' chemical preparation capable of destroying...sperm' . Between 1931 and 1959, the Association founded and funded a series of tests to assess chemical efficacy and safety and rubber quality . These tests became the basis for the Association's Approved List of contraceptives, which was launched in 1937, and went on to become an annual publication that the expanding network of FPA clinics relied upon as a means to' establish facts (about contraceptives) and to publish these facts as a basis on which a sound public and scientific opinion can be built' . </P> <P> In 1936 the U.S. court ruled in U.S. v. One Package that medically prescribing contraception to save a person's life or well - being was not illegal under the Comstock Law; following this decision, the American Medical Association Committee on Contraception revoked its 1936 statement condemning birth control . A national survey in 1937 showed 71 percent of the adult population supported the use of contraception . By 1938 347 birth control clinics were running in the United States despite their advertisement still being illegal . First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt publicly supported birth control and family planning . In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson started endorsing public funding for family planning services, and the Federal Government began subsidizing birth control services for low - income families . The Affordable Care Act, passed into law on March 23, 2010 under President Barack Obama, requires all plans in the Health Insurance Marketplace to cover contraceptive methods . These include barrier methods, hormonal methods, implanted devices, emergency contraceptives, and sterilization procedures . </P> <P> In 1909, Richard Richter developed the first intrauterine device made from silkworm gut, which was further developed and marketed in Germany by Ernst Gräfenberg in the late 1920s . In 1951, a chemist, named Carl Djerassi from Mexico City made the hormones in progesterone pills using Mexican yams . Djerassi had chemically created the pill but was not equipped to distribute it to patients . Meanwhile, Gregory Pincus and John Rock with help from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America developed the first birth control pills in the 1950s, such as mestranol / noretynodrel, which became publicly available in the 1960s through the Food and Drug Administration under the name Enovid . Medical abortion became an alternative to surgical abortion with the availability of prostaglandin analogs in the 1970s and mifepristone in the 1980s . </P> <P> Human rights agreements require most governments to provide family planning and contraceptive information and services . These include the requirement to create a national plan for family planning services, remove laws that limit access to family planning, ensure that a wide variety of safe and effective birth control methods are available including emergency contraceptives, make sure there are appropriately trained healthcare providers and facilities at an affordable price, and create a process to review the programs implemented . If governments fail to do the above it may put them in breach of binding international treaty obligations . </P>

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