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What was the name of the first commercially available oral contraceptive pill?

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what was the name of the first commercially available oral contraceptive pill

The first commercially available oral contraceptive “pill” was introduced in August 1960, by Chicago-based pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle.

It contained synthetic progesterone and estrogen and was named Enovid 10.

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