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The Birth Control Pill introduction into society was instrumental to the feminist movement and sexual revolution in the 1960s. Young, single women, who, with the help of this new contraception, took personal control of their sexuality. Sex before marriage entailed risk. Each and every time an unmarried woman had intercourse, she risked pregnancy, and was left to face life-changing options such as an illegal abortion, a shotgun wedding, forced adoption, or single motherhood of a child whose birth certificate would be stamped for posterity with the word "illegitimate. The Pill allowed American women to delay marriage and motherhood, while remaining sexually active. Women were able to control there time of pregnancy allow them to get a higher education and obtain better positions in the labor market. This article relates to the image as it demonstrations how the Pill became an effective tool in the women's right movement.